Cooking Dirty by Jason Sheehan

Author:Jason Sheehan [Sheehan, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781848871908
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd

OUT ONE NIGHT DRINKING at Faherty’s down the street with the guys. It’s two in the morning, maybe three. The whole place is full of white jackets, some still in uniform, sauce- and blood-spattered. There’s waitresses and hostesses, food-service groupies. The music is numbingly loud, the smoke thick as weather systems. We’re upstairs, shooting pool—team cutthroat against the crew from one of the other restaurants downtown, knocking the balls around for money, beers and pride.

And I’m drunk. Just completely hammered. When my turn at the table comes up, I grab the cue, set myself without thinking, and make an impossible jump-shot over the eight—sinking a ball that I could never have done sober, that I’ve never been able to do since.

The ball drops. My guys go wild. I throw the cue onto the floor, point at the cooks from the other house, say, “That’s just to prove that we’re better than you at everything.”

I stride off then, headed for the bar to claim my drink on the other guys’ tab, and promptly fall down the stairs.

This is not the same night I show my junk to the cocktail waitress. This is not the same night Matty’s girlfriend left him and we commandeered the jukebox to play nothing but his favorite songs until closing time, having to fight off a rush of enraged line cooks the fifth or tenth time a particular Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young tune came around. This was just another night, but they may as well all be the same night—one long last call, one night that never ended.

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