Tales From An Airport Bar
Tales From An Airport Bar
Ep 8: Justin Time
Ever wondered what it's like to navigate the bustling, unpredictable world of airport bars? Join us as we sit down with Justin, my good friend with over a decade of experience behind the bar in some of the busiest airports. From swapping crypto tips with Michael Dell to serving drinks to sports legends Michael Irvin and Emmett Smith, Justin shares his treasure trove of celebrity encounters and late-night stories. Get ready for an insider's look at the perks of transitioning from downtown nightlife to the unique, socially balanced hours of airport bars.
But the adventure doesn’t stop at celebrity sightings. Discover the heartwarming and often hilarious stories that unfold in the ever-changing airport environment. Experience the unexpected romance between a young bartender and a former drug dealer, and laugh at the chaos of spontaneous trips to Cancun and secret bar menus. Justin takes us through the highs and lows of managing an NFL-affiliated bar during a personal crisis, painting a vivid picture of the vibrant, unpredictable life that thrives within the airport terminals. Whether you love a good story or crave a glimpse into the colorful world of airport life, this episode is a must-listen!
Hey guys, welcome back to the eighth episode of Tales from an Airport Bar. Pull up the bar stool, let's get you something to drink. Let's get this going. This week's episode is brought to you by the Big Apple Pizza and Pasta located right outside the airport Best pizza on the planet. And, of course, our good friend Kev. That was on the last podcast. We got to plug him in. He's sponsoring us now. The Bedford Snow Go get you a snowball. It's hot as hell here in Texas. All right, guys, Our special guest this week is my good, good, good friend, Justin. Justin, thank you so much for coming on the show this week.
Speaker 2:How's it going, man? My pleasure. Thank you for inviting me. Couldn't be better. Best day ever, as you say, chris, best day of my life.
Speaker 1:So tell me, Justin, how long did you work out at the airport From, like say, what years?
Speaker 2:to what years On my way over here I've been in and out of the airport, I would say a. To what years on my way over here I was, I've been in and out of the airport.
Speaker 1:I would say a total of over 13 years, probably ongoing full-time, about 10 to 11 years, okay but, on and off for over 13 to 14 years so tell us about a couple of different concepts you've worked at my version experience into, uh, the airport world was of.
Speaker 2:I was killing it at a bar in in downtown dallas, but getting home at three, four in the morning sucks balls. It's no social life. It's yeah, I make a ton thursday, friday, saturday, but it's, it's no life. It's not a life for you. Know someone that that wants to have a life in your late thirties, forties, and so I heard about this place of. Hey, it closes at eight, nine o'clock at night. You're home by nine 30. It's called the airport what you know? Wait, these people are professional eaters like they go out to eat all the time and not a tip. And it closes at eight o'clock. Yeah, I'll try that out. This is a little irish spot called um, an irish pub.
Speaker 2:We'll call it that it was uh I was on my way in and you were on your way out, chris yeah, you had just uh left the irish about a week before you started. If we had only crossed paths. Then, yes and yeah, got my feet wet there at this little Irish Pope. Nice, it was a blast Loved. It Didn't turn back for about, I think, multiple through multiple firings and rehirings, but didn't leave the airport for about a decade.
Speaker 1:Okay, nice, tell me, ben, what about you've met anybody cool at the airport? Any cool celebrities, tons and tons and tons.
Speaker 2:That's part of the joy of the undecided or unknown joy of working in the airport, of that the people you get to meet. You get to talk to hundreds of people a day. Yeah, oh yeah, and that's. That's the fun love of it. You run into super famous people. You run into unbelievable characters that you work with also, you know I know you uh ran into a billionaire.
Speaker 1:Yes, hopefully it wasn't flying commercial that day.
Speaker 2:I didn't. Yeah, you asked me that before. I think I said I didn't ask him the question if he was flying commercial. He, michael dell. Yeah, for uh, dell dell computers. It was during covid and and, uh, crypto was was popular. I was off in the corner checking my cryptos and he said what are you looking at charts there? I was like, oh, you're, you know what I'm looking at? He said, no, I would like to know. You know, I kind of do charts and numbers as my business. I didn't know who he was. He goes michael dell nice to meet you. I was like, okay, dell, wait, I've heard of dell computers but I don't know who michael dell is. He's like, yeah, I own all of it, I own Dell computers. I was like, oh, wow, oh, okay, yeah, you're a big deal. Yeah, you're kind of a big Dell, yeah.
Speaker 1:That was a good one.
Speaker 2:I got him on this platform called Super EX Crypto Trading and it was a nine-digit login to log into him and I just memorized it instead of having him copy and paste. He ended up sitting and chatting with me for 45 minutes, Told me a really good fishing spot in northern Colorado to go to. Yeah, he was a super cool guy and yeah, we became Facebook friends and messaged each other With a billionaire. That doesn't happen every day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, left a decent tip.
Speaker 2:Yeah and hey. I bet you I could call him up and he would remember. Supposedly those people have genius brains. It's just another fun one ran across Michael Irvin, emmett Smith, pudge Rodriguez, on and on of sporting guys. Emmett Smith leaves a $22 tip. That was his number. I don't know if it was. I know there was one celebrity that asked you for some fresh.
Speaker 1:I don't know if it was 22. Yeah, I know there was one celebrity that asked you for some fresh juice. Can you talk about that a little bit?
Speaker 2:Yes, off of Meet the Fucker. What is his name? Oh yes, blond-headed guy.
Speaker 1:Owen Wilson, owen, yes, who. I've waited on myself at the bar.
Speaker 2:Came in seemed inebriated Bloodshot eyes it wasn't really inebriated.
Speaker 1:Isn't that part of just his personality?
Speaker 2:Yeah, just never made eye contact, but I could tell extremely bloodshot eyes. So I was thinking no alcohol for you. But he doesn't even look at the menu and orders I would like some fresh grapefruit juice. And I was like thinking where on the menu is that located? Because we don't offer that. I didn't say that to him, but I'm thinking I would like to point that out to me on the menu. That's normally what I do with my guests that order off the menu of something we don't have.
Speaker 1:So where are you looking on the menu?
Speaker 2:Right, Show me where the strawberry cheesecake is, sir. It's like well, I don't see it. That's because it's not on the menu, sir. That means we don't have it. You can't order something not on the menu. That's kind of my joke.
Speaker 1:People do that every day.
Speaker 2:They'll come into the Mexican food place and be like, yeah, I'll just take a burger and fries I'm like, okay, yeah, well, is that the number three combo, or can you point that out for me?
Speaker 1:so I can supersize that, yeah, right I think you're.
Speaker 2:You're one fry short of a happy meal there, sir.
Speaker 1:We don't have that for you so you said you started out at the irish pub. I know you also worked at another little wannabe Irish pub chain in the airport at one point.
Speaker 2:I think it's closed now. It's the last one in existence. I can say the name Binningens.
Speaker 1:I remember you telling me a story about a lady that pissed herself. I think the authorities were involved. The piss train or whatever you want to call it, lady that pissed herself.
Speaker 2:I think the authorities were involved. Yes, the the piss trainer. I've I've seen a lot in this world and some things I've never seen before. Two of them were in this. This story of a late night full bar awesome, killing it. What do you want to drink next person? What do you want to drink? Serving them all at the same time. This lady orders shot. Yeah, saucing them up, making my money. I'll stay till one in the morning. We're supposed to close at nine. Late flight. I'll extend it out to make that money. That's what we do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's go home.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that's it I've had it the last irish but I've stayed till five in the morning from a previous night, walked with 2,400 bucks. You know I'll stay all night. Um, but this lady started harassing another guest, not drinking her drink. Then she I kind of like made eye contact with her 20 minutes after I gave her her first drink, undrinked. She goes I'll have another drink. And I'm like, oh, ma'am, you got to finish the one in front of you first. And she goes, fuck you.
Speaker 2:I was like, okay, I guess you'll not be getting that second drink and I just kind of ignore her. Did you enjoy that first drink? Right, yeah, about 15 minutes later I bring her her tab. She kind of long story short replies back again with fuck you, I don't have my second drink yet. I didn't ask for the tab and I don't want to tab out. And I said, well, as of right now, you can still make your flight. I was like can you have a drink in front of you? There are other bars. Tab out, please and bye-bye, head on your way. Well, she doesn't do that. She decides to ignore me and continuous harassing other guests. I call authorities. Authorities are so awesome. They're constantly waiting for the Krispy Kreme donut plane to show up. So they're there in 30 seconds. We're right by that gate.
Speaker 2:They thought, maybe it was a hot call, but this one's maybe a cold call. She replies back to them with also a fuck you. She is not leaving.
Speaker 1:She has not got her second drink.
Speaker 2:But this time she accelerates it a little bit with a spit, a full, not quite lug, I didn't hear, but I didn't have the second drink. So she right, she was a little the cliff or dry mouth, but she did release fluids into the cop's face, an object I have never seen before a like a like a pantyhose mask that goes over your head. He had this little device in his pocket, pulls it out right over top of her head. She's netted and she now she looks like devil.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's like. Looks like a pantyhose robber nose up and everything no more spitting is. It's a spit proof mask. I didn't know these existed, but they do all the money in the register.
Speaker 2:Yes, I'll be all out there just know they exist and they they pop on you real quick she's. She seemed confused and dazed for about 20 seconds. What just happened? Well, long story short. Then she tries to mutter something through the this pantyhose deadpool mask and she now is on the ground and they are gonna get go get a wheelchair and make her leave. I don't, I don't think she made her flight wrong choice.
Speaker 1:You've chosen unwisely as she as they're taking her out, yeah, as they're taking her out in the wheelchair.
Speaker 2:She decides to. She can't spit, so she releases fluids out of another hole. She pees, she just starts urinating herself everywhere in this strapped-down chair.
Speaker 1:She's in a wheelchair, strapped down, struggling, making murder noises, with a spit mask on All the way down the hole.
Speaker 2:She had not had liquids that day. It was a bright yellow pee. She was dehydrated. It wasn't that clear you could tell where she was peeing. So about 70, 80 feet of pushing her out of the restaurant it's a solid yellow line Like you're pouring a Mountain Dew.
Speaker 1:She had been drinking.
Speaker 2:She hadn't been drinking, I guess, or not?
Speaker 1:enough. I know you worked with one of our buddies that was not only bartending and serving, but he also did TSA.
Speaker 2:Yes, one of the hardest working MFers I've ever worked with. Most of us go to our job and we find a lovely bar like I tend to you at, like I get to serve my guests and my patrons people that listen to this. Why we go To get a drink when we're off work. Well, he would work doubles every day so he really didn't have off work. Well, off of his first job, I'm going to start drinking on the way to my second job. He did morning basement tsa in the morning, non-drinking, but then at about 2 30 when he'd show up with us over at this mexican restaurant, he would start drinking little shots and uh, fyi, fun fact and you could get those through security yes, absolutely yes.
Speaker 1:Well, a one quart bag open a couple monsters every day too. When he got in, he's like all right, let me go to mustache.
Speaker 2:He is. You're allowed to bring a one-quart bag of under two-ounce individually bottled liquids through TSA. That conveniently fits 12 one-ounce shots Conveniently fits 12 bottles in your carry-on.
Speaker 2:Ladies and gentlemen, you can carry this onto the plane, just FYI, and then you don't have to wear a it Right, you can just order a tomato juice and a packet of salt and pepper. I didn't bring cash for the plane. Pour freely, I serve myself Best bartender. I know Nobody makes my drinks like I do. Well, we would chitter chat back and forth of it was it was during a big tsa push and in our airport they'd spent one billion dollars and I would always clown him on how many people y'all catch this week and he'd be like we didn't catch anyone. We've never caught anyone. You mean, wait, you're not catching people coming through with bombs every day or whatever. No, nobody does that. You know the airport's safe. It is. It really is a safe place. It is, it is, we love it there. But uh, he would catch people going with uh 13 and a half foot anaconda. Just put that through the x-ray like they're not gonna check that live snake right live snake like no big deal right?
Speaker 2:yeah, he. He said uh, if you ever need to smuggle anything, wrap it up in your underwear. He's like no one's going to dig through it. He's like. I got to open this bag up and look at this dude's underwear.
Speaker 1:Put a streak on it, no one's going to dig through it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he said you're good, just ship it. Yeah, you're not going to get caught. Don't?
Speaker 2:they got a special like pops special like popsicle stick or something to move your underwear with. They don't want to dig through that. So it would be openly drinking there at the restaurant we would have. Uh, I don't know if you know, you ring in the drink and it pops up and the bartender makes it, or the drink's made. Well, when you're in the zone you're passing out a period of 30 minutes, 50, 60 drinks. Sometimes one of them might get made wrong, made right, she doesn't want anymore, he doesn't want it, wants another one. You know, hey, what's the story? But we get extras and so those, those shouldn't be just thrown away. I don't think that's alcohol abuse. So sometimes we would put it in our belly instead of into the trash, and so we yeah, it's taste test I or put it in a to-go cup and put it at the host stand.
Speaker 2:Yes, the hosts need drinks too. Or wait, maybe I can hide my drink there.
Speaker 1:I think the hosts and hostesses are underage, Justin.
Speaker 2:Just for the record.
Speaker 1:Yes, we can't confirm or deny that? We're not sure, right, well, and then it's either that or they're like 60. I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yes, we would have a taste test during shift. It was required by myself.
Speaker 1:It was in my code of conduct Specification checks, quality control there would be.
Speaker 2:I worked with a guy for about five years that was a excellent talker, really hard worker, 58, 60, big time car collector, passion for women where I just found out over this last week and had passed away.
Speaker 1:Uh, I don't want to name drop him. He's a good friend of mine as well and um, rest in peace, um, but go on, he great guy, um, amazing guy made me believe in in like of love stories with women.
Speaker 2:Hot women in their 30s and 40s would fall in love with him all the time just at a meeting greet at a table at a bar top of like how can 40s would fall in love with him all the time just at a meeting greet at a table at a bar top. I was like how can this happen? You fall in love and they would run decades of meetings just at the airport and would make out the whole time Like in line. He'd be like hey, I got to be back in an hour. I'm going to take this. You know my girlfriend. He would say you know to the and we're going to go have a meal. She would come once every, twice a month.
Speaker 1:Not to mention the waitress he was dating that he worked with.
Speaker 2:He was a suave, very good-looking older gentleman, no-transcript, and I had it when I was at an establishment that comes after the day Thursday working. Shenanigans, shenanigans. I saw love at first sight. Also, one of my lovely hot 21-year-old bartender ladies fell in love with a real-life drug dealer. He was 19. He came up to the bar top with two phones and she was all into getting high on cigarettes and they fell in love and were married three months later at the DFW airport, kids and everything.
Speaker 2:He moved from California, quit drug dealing and came here and started a life with her. True love at first sight can happen in the airport. Very cool. What was he selling? Power pellets. He was a legal marijuana mover in California. He had two phones. She was like is that your burner phone? He was like yeah, because I'm a drug dealer. She was like no, you're not, I'm a drug consumer. She was like no, you're not, you're a drug consumer. So let's be honest, you meet a lot of interesting. A 19-year-old dude had $1,000 shoes on and she just kind of can tell you can tell he reeked of marijuana.
Speaker 1:You sure that wasn't me. Oh, that's right, I don't have the money part.
Speaker 2:It's not my bag, baby. So the stories go on and on and on of just some amazing times of, uh yeah, the family bathroom, ladies and gentlemen, you can do anything in there you want, it is awesome yeah, it's, it's, it's the real wild west. No bars hole all out like you don't know if a if a small one, a child, is in there doing out of dirty do or if people are getting it down. You know there's noises come out of there all the time in the pipes yeah, right, we don't know is there a guy or a girl?
Speaker 1:we don't know it's so I remember you were talking about the pizza place up above the Irish pub and it had a male and female bathroom upstairs right next to it and man all day long, because you could go in there and lock the door and all day long a reek of cigarettes in the airport. Unreal to me. I'm a cigarette smoker. Chris, I remember the time you were so delirious. We got off work one day. I think it was three in the afternoon and you hadn't even made it through the double doors yet oh, I would lit your cigarette inside a baggage right next to baggage claim.
Speaker 1:I remember that what are you doing? You're like what you like woke up out of a dream and you're like, oh, we're not outside, yet my bad 15 yards from the double doors, he's got the baggage claim. I was like, what are you doing? He's like he snapped out of it. He's like, oh shit, that's why I don't work those morning shifts anymore. I'm going down the escalator burning a cig.
Speaker 1:God is choosing me to be the one to smoke inside you know we outlawed that back in 1993 in this airport it's the number one question I get asked a little bit Do you have an IPA? Where can I smoke a cigarette?
Speaker 2:Basically nowhere.
Speaker 1:And then, yeah, we're going to need you to go downstairs.
Speaker 2:Stairs to the designated smoking area, and then we're going to need you to not take that the airport, one thing I love about it. I think there was 75, 70, don't quote me on exactly restaurants in there. We'd all rotate doors. I'd be a year and a half here and then you get fired or whatever. There's a better spot, people are new terminal, whatever it be money's better, I walk in, we all walk in. Hey, hey, hey. It's like an old reunion. It always is like a family reunion.
Speaker 1:We're working together again.
Speaker 2:I didn't even know you were here. Six months ago we were both at da-da-da-da-da. It's kind of like a family reunion every time, Every time. Every time, every time You're just going to know one person. Yeah, it's so, so crazy. And then, while you're there, more people you know are going to come in after. Yes, or you call them and bring them over. Yeah, you recruit Because it's invite only the airport's invite.
Speaker 1:Only I'm like. Why did I know about?
Speaker 2:this 10 years ago. It's invite. Only you have to be invited in.
Speaker 1:Literally you got to be invited um.
Speaker 2:People fall in love tsa um, yes, ma'am, I think that too is the invite thing of I think about it, of uh, a good, good husband and wife couple. They're awesome. You know, he's got his thumb on her, she's got his thumb on him, and. But airport, it's noble, it's the wild west. You now your husband is not there. It's an open bar, you are traveling and have money, I can get all the drinks I want and I'm a little nervous, so I took my uh prescribed xanax. Yeah, we've talked about that, and so it's constant, and the husband can't come in and get you, it's you on the plane heading somewhere else, so you can do whatever you want. None of our business.
Speaker 1:None of our business. Oh shit, so you worked out there for a decade?
Speaker 2:Yes, Over a 13-year period.
Speaker 1:I know that you've seen and or done drugs in the airport. Can you elaborate on that at all?
Speaker 2:I mean, if guests were bringing them to me, or if I brought them myself, what are you?
Speaker 1:getting tipped, and what are you doing inside the airport, sir?
Speaker 2:Just serving up a cold drink, as you request, just trying to fulfill the guest needs. Some need things that are not on the menu. Some bring things that are not on the menu. Yes, yes, they do. And yeah, hey, I might order off the menu myself.
Speaker 1:Wait, you can't order off the menu where you work.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but the guests have a menu that I didn't know existed.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's like the secret menu. It's like the secret menu. You know the password, you can get in, but you also have to know where the door. Can I get that animal style, the golden ticket?
Speaker 2:in the in. Things I've had ones even say come with me right now. Hey, I have an extra ticket, I'll want to go to cancun. That that guy, that that that older gentleman had left many shifts, just hey, I'm out, I'm going to Cancun right now. And I was like you're leaving in the middle of the shift. He's like, yeah, I'm going to go to Cancun. I was like this morning you were going to go back home, and now you're going to Cancun. He's like, yeah, that's why I love the airport.
Speaker 1:I'm about to see my pants.
Speaker 2:Sorry, man. You know there's always a plane to get on there. I had another lady I worked with that the spirit. If you go to Terminal E at a certain time of day, they literally do $5 flights but you don't get to pick where you're going. It's like we got an open seat. We need to fill it Right $5. I don't know if they still do that, but they did do that, but they did, they used to.
Speaker 2:You could go, and I'm going to Indiana, I'm going to Cancun, who knows where you're going? Five bucks, how much is the ground trip?
Speaker 1:Billings Montana, let's go, it's no normal Illinois.
Speaker 2:It's excitement, excitement filled with excitement, pleasures, joys, ups and downs Um very financially being.
Speaker 1:I miss it. I miss it Um, you know it's quick money but it isn't easy. No, that's the best way I've ever heard it described. So I know that you also worked at this one barbecue spot in the airport. Um, can you without getting too? Uh, you also worked at this one barbecue spot in the airport. Can you without getting too much into politics? Can you tell me how you exited that place? Because I found that very interesting.
Speaker 2:Yes, if you're not bartending and you're waiting, you have sections. So I talked to my guests. So I don't know why I would go across the restaurant and talk to someone else's guests and maybe mess up their dining, unless they call me over. You know they have that secret off the menu stuff. Hey, I got something for you.
Speaker 2:You look like my people, I know you you look like my people, I know you well, she wrote in and complained that I wasn't engaging with her and my tables happened to all be Caucasian and she was an African lady and yeah, it was very racist of me and mean and rude to not engage with her.
Speaker 1:So basically not to come out of your section. The people you're waiting on leave your section and come to a different person's section. That's neglecting her, basically.
Speaker 2:She was being neglected. I guess she hasn't seen her waiter.
Speaker 1:She has seen when I was her waiter.
Speaker 2:We ended up having to part our ways after that one. Not my fault, but that place was awesome too. 12 hour shifts it was like from 6 am to 6 pm.
Speaker 1:Shut her down, it was post-covid shifts right, it was like well, we just one run one crew, and that's not open three days a week and make rent in two days speaking of exits, chris, I don't think you've told your exit story from a certain NFL-affiliated bar that we worked with. Okay, yeah, that was a different. We have to tell that story. Okay, so, that was a different airport. So, okay, I start my shift. You know, I think we went in at like 2, 3 o'clock and I start my shift and we came to our car at like 1.
Speaker 1:Those were long shifts and I was working with this dude named Chad Chad and Chad, yeah. And he would always say, yeah, it's like shitty. Chad, great guy, great bartender, awesome dude. This particular day we're about 15, 20 minutes into my shift and he just looks at me with this dead look and he's like my stepdad's in the hospital. I've got to leave right now, da-da-da-da-da. Okay, cool man, no problem. Transfers over all his guests to me At this point. You know it's early in the shift. We've probably got about 20, 25 people in there. Big nice bar Only two people working.
Speaker 1:Typically you could get up to 70 people in there, and this is not at the airport we work at now. This was under Southwest control, the Stepbrother Airport, in this, in this large metroplex, anyways, um, working for the local nfl affiliate bar that's inside the airport, that's branded, you know, dallas cowboys, and uh, nothing like working for jerry jones, and uh, so at this point I have like 25 people at the bar. I know every single person's name at the bar and, uh, I'm just proceeding to get my ass kicked and didn't want to be there, was at the end of my rope at this job anyways, was working at both airports and enough was enough, and uh, so at this point, so we started around 2. At this point it's about 5, 530. And they've called the manager to come help me because at this point I have 50-plus people. It's like a waiting nightmare at this point where you just can't get to people.
Speaker 1:You come in, no matter how hard you try, and it's just alcohol in our restaurant restaurant. But you can order. There's a, there's a QR code where you can order from the fast food places and pizza places and stuff right next door to us and they'll we'll bring your food over. So, uh, five o'clock, manager, manager doesn't get there for until about five, five, 15 to come in and back me up and help me. So at this point it's about five o'clock and I'm waiting on 50 plus people and this one gentleman he sat with these two ladies and I recall he had had two drinks already and was starting to get a little loud. And I'm just proceeding to get my ass kicked. But I'm taking care of everybody. Everybody has everything they need. And then I start getting a couple food orders. So I put those food orders in or, excuse me, I wasn't taking food orders. I take that back. I had had one food order. Just put that in.
Speaker 1:This guy is yelling across the bar at me for a third drink. I said, hey, let me get these guys their first drinks and I'll take care of you. And uh, come back around the bar and I'm still just I'm making drinks right in front of him and he's like hey, are you going to get me a drink? I said, hey, sir, I'll be right there with you. And he's like dude, you can't talk to me like that. And I said, excuse me. I said you've had two drinks, he's had zero. He gets his drink. Then I could come back to you, buddy. And I said I can talk to you like that because you're stepping out of turn and you're being rude.
Speaker 1:And well, next thing I know, here comes the manager. It's about 5.15 at this point. This dude's been stewing at the bar. I finally get him another drink and he's still jawing at me like blah, blah, blah, blah. I was like bro, manager's going to be here any second. You can talk to him. Here comes the manager. What does he do? He starts taking food orders. He puts in the people's food orders wrong trying to help.
Speaker 1:He's been there all of like two minutes. Just takes these people's food orders, puts it in, fucks it all up.
Speaker 2:He was actually present, though this other dude was yapping at me and I said this dude's yapping at me, me too.
Speaker 1:And I said this dude's yapping at me and I said, hey, look, here's the manager. He just came in. If you want to talk to the manager, he's right there, go ahead. Anyways, he starts About to get crazy.
Speaker 1:He starts going loud and the manager's like hey, why don't we step out into the hall here? It's pretty busy, we don't you know? They step out into the hallway. Manager's fucked up all my food and it's just two orders and I get the other order out. I apologize to those people about their food.
Speaker 1:I go through and there's 53 people at the bar at this point and it's packed man and I call out every single person by name. You know Steve, tommy, john Blake, justin, susie, whoever all 53 people by their first name. And I said you know what guys see that asshole out in the hall with the manager out in the hallway. He had three drinks and proceeded to tell my manager that I neglected him. I said has anybody in this bar been neglected? And I need to tell you this bar went ape shit. I said this is my last day.
Speaker 1:Guys Pay out because I'm leaving. I quit. Every single person paid out while this dude, the manager, and the dude out in the hall, when people started erupting, turned around and looked back in the bar and was like what the hell is going on in there? The supervisor standing next to me from the next restaurant. She just looks at me and she goes. You just got every single person in this restaurant's name, correct? She's like what the hell are you doing, working here, bartending anyways? And I just you said I'm not anymore.
Speaker 1:I said I handed her my you know, about five to ten minutes later I had everybody paid out. This dude's still jawing at my manager out in the hallway. He proceeds to pay out when he comes back in and the manager's like I want to talk to you and I, uh, he's like. But I got to go check on the other restaurant real quick and I said no, dude, I won't be here when you get back. He's like, just hang on a second. Anyways, supervisors there. I handed her my drawer and my badge. She goes what do you want me to do with this?
Speaker 1:and I was like I don't care what you do with it, I don't work here anymore, and that was that man and uh, that was the most awesome way to ever quit a job. It was freaking amazing deuces best thing I ever did one of yeah, one of the best things I ever did with my life. Justin didn't mean to steal your thunder and tell that little story there at the end.
Speaker 2:He's not stealing any thunder. Yes, I love reminiscing. It's been about two years gone from the airport. It makes me miss it sitting here chatting with you all.
Speaker 1:You know we've got a couple openings. You know the airport's missed you. Slangin' drinks on a.
Speaker 2:Tuesday Slangin' drinks on a Tuesday.
Speaker 1:Justin, I really just want to say thank you so much for coming on this week. Man, it's been amazing. We would love to have you back again soon. Again, we want a special shout-out to the Big Apple and the Bedford Snow for sponsoring us today. Shout-out to Snow Cones and Zah. That's right.
Speaker 2:Don't eat yellow snow.
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