I got tired of watching as Billy complained that the receipt should be higher. All the time, people would come in and buy drinks and say ‘hey, happy birthday, have one on me’ a shot glass would be turned upside down and the patron would do their best to drink all the upside down shot glasses away…well it got to the point that there were no shot glasses for the regulars to even get a shot of Powers, because all the glasses were upside down in front of someone, [or two or three or four folks] (lots of people were very generous)…what’s the deal? Well Billy, being Billy, just went downtown to the local glassery on South Broad St., and bought plastic shot glasses. Hey, now we are cooking!!! Well…it wasn’t long before a bunch of real jerks began to BUY the plastic shot glasses and take advantage of my friend (he called me Bro) Billy….Next thing you know Billy was losing money hand over fist to everyone and their idiot brother with plastic shot glasses asking for their free drink….jerks….Well, I went to my 25th High School reunion in 1994..I got a token from a friend who bought me a drink it looked like a poker chip…my mind raced as to how I could help my friend Billy………… well after looking at the Tir na nOg sign I got it…Make a chip, no wait, three chips…one for Guinness, in BLACK, one for ½ pint of Guinness or a pint of Bud IN GREEN, one for ½ pint of Bud in YELLOW… people could buy them and put them in their pocket… EXCELLENT!!!!! So on Billy’s birthday in 1994 I bought him 1000 black, 1000 green and 500 yellow. Happy birthday Bro! (he was my friend)…two months later he said to me….” I need to order more black and green chips” I said “how many?”… he replied 2000 black and 2000 green…I informed Bill that it would cost him $920.00 or roughly $.23 cents each…less then a quarter each. He flipped…$950.00!!!!!!!!!!!! (with shipping) I said, ‘yes why?’…he says to me.. ”that’s too much money!!!!!!!!!!!!” So I explain to my friend…”OK, I GAVE you 2000 chips…you sold them for …hummmm (1000 @ $3.00 and 1000 @ 1.50 =) $4,500.00 and you sold…lets see… NO BEER!!! Dude, what are you complaining about…??? Billy, we are good!..He looked at me with that twinkle he could produce on command…he smiled and said ‘order the chips’, and then said to the bartender “Give my friend a Guinness”
God bless Billy Briggs
By Santa Bob
