Interesting news report on some local shootings!
Reputed prison gangster killed
This is my watering hole! The local campus pub! Some of the best moments of my life were celebrated here... we would meet here after every exam to drown away our misery. Or to celebrate our successes! It essentially is right on campus, about 150 feet from where I spend most of my study time these days (when I am not on rotation) - in the lab.
Scary.
I have never known Characters to have a rough kind of crowd. Then again, when I am there, it's usually late afternoon, post exam, and with a bunch of med sudents or professors. The ugliest it ever got was a few toothless old men at 11am (hey, we had an EARLY exam that day) and a couple of meth heads eating burgers.
It won't stop me from going back there, though. Too many fond memories, even if it is quite a bit of a dive bar. But it's our dive bar, damn it! If it wasn't for Characters, there would be no common tree MONKEY. And no shiny purple vibrating things. And no birthday cake and bottles of scotch for Peri. And no endless bottles of Newcastle with Beth. And no endless bottles of Corona with Eric. And no cowgirls...
Stupid gangsters... why you gotta spoil a nice shithole like that!?