Apparently times have changed.
MARK AMES
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FIFTH STOP: GARAZH
This is Moscow’s most reliable after-hours club, a staple for the older, richer E-and-coke crowd.
Amazingly enough I was waved through the door before I could even pull out my Levi’s or toilet paper. I figured I’d offer them to someone a little needier: The bartender. When I tried to pay for my drink with the Levi’s, he at first accepted them, but then handed them back.
“No, no, no,” he said.
I realized it was too much to offer. So I gave him my toilet paper, a more fair exchange. He took it and put it down. Yet, astoundingly, the ungrateful bastard still demanded that I pay for the drink.
