But its beaming visage was a contrast to my first barstool interaction whereby a woman called across the bar and introduced herself like this:
“Hi, stranger. How are you? I OD’d yesterday. Close call!”
Then to the whole bar: “Have you ever OD’d?”
The owner, standing up for his bar’s branding, immediately asked her to talk about happy things. She complied and cheerily asked me if I wanted to see “her nice set of Hogans.”
So sets the stage for Happy Day’s Restaurant & Bar