Me: Hey, how’s it going today?
Patron: Good good, enjoying my new life
Me: Glad to hear it
Patron: Today makes… One year, three months, aaaaaaand 11 days clean.
Me: Oh! That’s an important and very specific anniversary.
Patron: Yeah yeah, it’s good. It’s weird, y’know? I been gettin messed up since I was 15. I’m 37 now.
Me: Yikes
Patron: Never too late for a new start!
Me: Peoples’ honesty with deeply personal issues around complete strangers will never cease to baffle me