A warm
night where air conditioning serves its purpose. But we were going without.
Front door propped wide and windows open to the world. There was a strange vein
coursing through the night. A guy with broken logic had beckoned me over and
said, “I have a business proposition for you.” Nothing made sense. I excused
myself and went back to the door. I was chatting with a cute young woman who
had just moved to our city days ago with her boyfriend when I got the signal to
go back to the troublesome guy because the owner was clearly having words with
him. Now remember, I am The Doorman. I am not a bouncer, so my approach is to
calmly convince, not bark orders. The owner was threatening to call the police.
I put my hand on his shoulder and said, “Come on… let’s get you out of here
before you’ve got cops doing a Rodney King with you.” He left. The bartender
said I should have walked outside with him to make sure he moved on, but then
the owner said don’t go outside, let him go and don’t touch people like that.
The guy was on something – he wasn’t drunk or stoned on grass. I don’t know,
nor do I have the interest to learn the typical behavior of the various street
drugs. Fortunately these occurrences are rare. I may be at risk, but I got to
handle things within my comfort zone.
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