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I have a bar/pizza shack at which I am a regular. The owner and I get along famously. He hired a bartender about a year ago and our personalities clashed. He didn't care for me nor I for him. I started to avoid the place on nights he worked. Then he started working nights I went to the place. I knew I needed to figure it out or find a new watering hole. I started seeking him out and talking to him. Got to know him a bit. Let him get to know me. Tipped him appropriately. Kept it civil and gave it a chance. We're not exactly tight now but he doesn't cringe when I walk in and I don't leave shortly after arriving to see him keeping bar. It was no huge sacrifice on my part. A bigger sacrifice would have been leaving that joint to find a place I like as well. I'm no genius but it's really not that hard to get along with the bartender if you stop spitting beer down his neck and make an effort.
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