![]() Confucius “Confuse us” Years ago, this little statue made it into my life through a most unfortunate turn of events. I had befriended three guys while living in New York. The three of them had been very close for years and they had a nice network of guys and girls they hung out with. I was immediately accepted into the group and whammo, all of a sudden my weekends were full with parties, going to bars/clubs and all sorts of activities. They were good chaps and I had never been welcomed so quickly into a group before.
Around the holidays, they ended up exchanging gifts at my apartment in Queens. Confucius was picked up by one of them as a gift to another (Names have been with held) and when they left that night it was mistakenly left at my place. That weekend we collectively attended a party at a posh Upper East Side apartment. Things were going along well until something happened between the friends and one of their girlfriends. I will claim not to know but it broke up the friendships of all of them. Irreversibly lost. Just as a stone disappears when it is dropped into a lake or the morning fog fades and vanishes as the sun lifts itself into the sky. I wondered what the friendships were originally rooted in. I had just entered the picture and was so glad to be part of a group of a big group of friends. And then it was gone... But not the statue. I tried to give it back but the guy didn’t want it anymore. So Confucius followed me the next 3 years until I opened 33 and brought him to work. He sat in 33 every day I was open for over 8 1/2 years and on one occasion went out drinking with me and a few friends after work to Tangerine (a now defunct Washington Ave. bar that I frequented.) I have a tendency to move him from place to place and will on occasion hide him somewhere in the bar. But Confucius will always be here and he reminds me of a few months in my life when I saw things go unnecessarily awry for all the wrong reasons. Confucius say, “Man who run in front of car, get tired.” Comments are closed.
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AuthorHello earthlings. I have been sent here to open a brewery. I hope you have time over the next year to check in from time to time and see our progress (or lack there of at times). ![]() Morning beer delivery at Tynan’s Bridge House Bar in Kilkenny, Ireland.
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