As a theater person, you learn very early on that there is a certain play whose title you don’t speak aloud.

Tonight I did a thing.

Around 4:15 tonight I walked into the bar and the bartender was drying her hands aggressively.

I asked her if she was rehearsing a particular scene from said play. I might have said the name of the play out loud. Then I asked if she knew the play? The story? The superstition? She did not.

I then explain it to her and jokingly say, now that I’ve said this the whole night is going to explode.

The evening starts and all is well until 5:45. When the bar printer goes down. Then the server printers go down. By 6:30 the entire system was fucked! Kitchen printers not working. Credit cards processing but not printing signature copies. Can’t print guest checks.

The system was still not working at the end of the night. Our IT guy (I use the term loosely) will be in tomorrow to try and figure out the issue.

How does one cancel the curse when it’s not a theatre?

I told my team about this tonight and now they all think it’s my fault.