My new favorite bartender

I ducked into a cozy quiet pub in Little Venice for a late lunch last Friday, and to catch up on some work emails while I was on vacation in London. In walks this man who gets a pint and sits down, but then starts barking orders across the dining room to the bartender to come turn on the tv to “some sports.” Finally, after his third complaint that there are no sports to watch, she marches in the dining room with the remote. On comes the t.v.

“ESPN, then?” She asked him. 

“Yes, yes!” he replied.

She flipped it on, waited for the commercial to end, then smiled at him when they returned to the game of…women’s cricket, nodded at him, then turned and went back to the bar. 

He finished his beer quickly, then quietly left.