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Bartender of the week

Heather Gregory

Hometown: Taylorville

Major: Photojournalism

Establishment: Sidetracks

Schedule: Thursdays and weekends

Years Bartending: 4

Starting out: "Making mixed drinks at the family reunion - age 9."

Most outrageous story: "The time when two girls got in a catfight upstairs and the one girl slammed the other girl's head into the pool table."

Most popular drink at your bar: Beer

Specialty drink: Top shelf margarita

Best tip received: "Don't get pregnant."

If I wasn't bartending, I would be: "Broke."

After hours: "I go to your mama's house."

Favorite people to work with: "I like everybody I work with, that's why I work here."

Favorite customers: "The ones who get me drunk."

Best part about the job: "Knowing what I do might get someone laid - getting people socially lubricated enough to drive up the rate of pregnancy in Illinois."

Hardest part about your job: "Trying to remember to refer to our Saturday night DJ as 'DJ Dickey Donkey'."

Best advice to bar goers: "I've learned that drunks don't like advice, but use common sense."

Better tippers - men or women: "Men and other customers who work for their tips."

Number of time you've watched 'Cocktail': "Every night for inspiration before I go to work."

Favorite Tom Cruise movie, if not 'Cocktail': "Top Gun"

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