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 I have been to some bars.  Those that offer the beverages that can perk you up or drown.  Polished oak, sparkling mirrors and rows of aperitifs and stronger distilled spirits along glass shelves reflected in said mirror. A whiff or something herbal or decaying depending on the establishment. Now I am not a typical visitor to said facility so my knowledge of the surrounds is limited.

The counter or the bar as one sidles up to is a long section of hardwood kept within arm's length of the barkeeper.  It helps to pour and provide the thirsty.  But in these moments I fail to remember how many sides the said bar had.

I can only remember the one.  Or two if you count the one used by the keep.  And if there was more than one on the side I could not attest.

Yet as Americanisms go most all corporate types speak in riddles.  One such is 'having a sidebar'.  Or referring to a sidebar conversation.  What exactly is this I ask?

What is the import that cannot be discussed while downing a drink that one would resort to a side? And which side? Right or left? Or is that inconsequential? 

I for one speak my mind where I sit.  Or stand.  No need to take sides. Especially in a bar. There is no high bar for me so to speak.  I am by my own recognition barrier free. Bar none.

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