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Nothing is as depressing as a depressed person drinking alone in a bar. <strong>The</strong>re is<br />

something to be said for drinking with friends but when you catch sight of<br />

yourself drinking alone it is even worse than watching one fat girl stuffing down<br />

a family size pizza<br />

No. It wasn’t a clever idea.<br />

Once I’d had enough to drink in one place I was stumbling my way along the<br />

pavement to the next. People could see from my Ali shuffle that I was a little<br />

enthusiastic for so early in the day. It wasn’t an uncommon site and I probably<br />

saw at least five or six drunks who were stumble bumming around worse than I<br />

was.<br />

I happened to notice the Hair Club for Men as I steadied myself against a bus<br />

stop. If I wasn’t angling my head up I would never have noticed it as it was so<br />

high up, on the top floor of a building. No signs on the ground floor. I wasn’t<br />

going to be perturbed though and as I stumbled through the foyer and lent<br />

against the elevator burping along to the muzak, I thought about returning to<br />

Elly with a stylish new do.<br />

I walked into an open plan salon and was greeted by a very happy little Asian<br />

man. I want to say he was Chinese, maybe Vietnamese but in all honesty I have<br />

no clue. He had a typical jet black Beatle’s cut hair do, not what I’d be leaving<br />

with. He sat me down on some minimalist leather puffs with style books full of

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