Sami was waiting at the bar.

Sami spends every single day at the bar.

So we go, of course, to the pub. All right?

Sami talked Layla into driving him back to the bar.

Sami and Layla had plans to go to that bar.

And suddenly the old man turns to him and goes, You see this bar?

It is like the difference between a bar or club where the lights are low, and a good make up mirror.

My neighbours Ahmed, the kebab seller, and Samuel, the shoe shopkeeper, both Tunes (Tunisians) raise a glass in the bar opposite.

While I was preparing my dog for the run, a man was finishing drinking at a bar, picked up his car keys, got into a car and headed south, or wherever he was.

If you are really worried about the oppresion we suffer, do something by stopping your colleagues when they treat us as objects in a bar or when they makes rape jokes.

Of course rumochnaia had nothing in common with Nikolai Gogol, but the establishment named after the famous writer does have a skating rink that is used once a day by a man dressed up as Gogol.

I walked up along Hudson Street where Jane Jacobs had lived and written her great book that so influenced what I was writing in Emergence past the White Horse Tavern, that great old bar where Dylan Thomas drank himself to death, and the Bleecker Street playground was filled with kids.

And this peaks at Super Bowl Sunday when guys would rather be in a bar with strangers, watching a totally overdressed Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers, rather than Jennifer Lopez totally naked in the bedroom.

As always, I would return to Bangalore, and often to animated discussions at friend's homes, where we would discuss various issues while they complained bitterly about the new pub timings, where a drink often cost more than what they'd paid their 14 year old maid.