Daily Egyptian - Arts & Entertainment - Carbondale, Illinois
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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