Tales From An Airport Bar
Tales From An Airport Bar
Ep 17: Chocolate Chip Pancakes And A Beer Featuring David
Hey guys, welcome back Episode 17 of Tales from an Airport Bar, TFAB. As you guys know it, I'm Christopher and, as always, I've got my esteemed co-host.
Speaker 2:Block A.
Speaker 1:And then this week we are super excited to have David on. David, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2:Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1:David, give our listeners a little background on how long you've worked, at what airports and when did you start?
Speaker 2:I started about 12 years ago at DFW Airport in Terminal D at Riata Grill, and you know how us waiters are at the airport we just bounce around like Indian chasing buffalo. So then I went to we talk about it all the time, oh yeah Went to Ling and Louie where I met you, Chris, and then I went over there and said no.
Speaker 3:I'm not going to work the Mexican concept.
Speaker 2:The.
Speaker 1:Mexican concept, the Asian concept Right right Went from the Asian concept to the Mexican and I was like I don't want to work here but, I ended up making more money, so I left.
Speaker 2:Well, during that time, our boss remember, boss Maria, yes, yes she said uh, david, I need you to go to love build and um, I go over there to the crew wine bar and, boy, how do you could feel the tension. They're like what are you doing here? The waiters and I'm like you, it was all waiter telepathy.
Speaker 3:I'm like, let's just ask me to come down.
Speaker 2:I don't know what's going on?
Speaker 3:I don't want to make her mad.
Speaker 2:Right. So I got badged and I ended up not going over there. Basically, what it is is Boston. Maria had to have a certain amount of lower level badges to get her higher badge, so that's why she had to go. So when we opened the crew at Terminal D, I said I want to work there. Well, I went through the wine bar in Terminal D at D26. And so I went through the full formal training of crew and of course it opens and it's not making any money. That's right. When Terminal D started having all the reconstruction and stuff and all these people went through training I think they would make the money. They made it love. They were not happy. So I went back to uh. I went back to God, mandy boss, mandy was there. I was able to go back and I worked one day a week at uh at the crew at DFW. Well, the volume was so low, chris boss. Chris said David, I need that shift.
Speaker 2:So I thought I was done with wine and crew, and then I think it was like six months later, which will be seven years, I said you're going to DFW. I guess you came right before I did Right, blake, and so now I've been seven years.
Speaker 3:You pulled everybody from over there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, basically. So I've now been at crew love field right as you come in through TSA for the past seven years.
Speaker 3:And that's the best part about it. At that airport it's just one terminal. When you walk in, you go through security, you go up the stairs or escalator and the very first. Thing on your right, right after you get past the stairs, is that wine bar.
Speaker 2:So you have all the alcoholics running into our bar saying I want a shot of tequila, and we're like we're not a full bar. We're not a full bar and they have to keep going.
Speaker 3:You're just the first thing they see. Right, ask for whatever, so you know we're about to get.
Speaker 2:They're going to change the Bruegel bagels into an Applebee's IHOP and I thought that was just that's what that company. You just know it's a matter of time before there's a country redneck having pancakes and a beer, you know that's going to happen. They're going to have their chocolate chip pancake and they're going to have a beer sitting at the bar.
Speaker 1:You know, it probably looks like a guy like me, except you know I don't drink the beer, right? No, you don't Love me. Some chocolate chip pancakes, though.
Speaker 2:Right, so you know. So I'm anxious to see because it's right outside of TSA. So the people hanging out wanting to see you know people that they'll have a place to have a beer instead of just standing there.
Speaker 3:So we'll see, there's only that little fly bar which is so small.
Speaker 2:Yeah. There's like four seats at it and there's a Dunkin' Donuts up there, and you're not there in line, whereas now, when they come out of TSA, the people you're waiting for to come out of the airport will be. They can sit there and have a beer and watch them, as opposed to couldn't do it at that fly bar. But anyway, I've been there seven years, so I've been a total of 12 years at the airport. I can't believe, chris. I've known you 11 years. Yeah, I met you.
Speaker 2:So, that's pushing nine years with you, so it's been a while.
Speaker 1:You met me way before my youngest son was born, that's right, oh yeah, um, so you've worked at all these concepts at two different airports. Um, talk to me, what is? What is some of the? What's the wildest thing you've ever seen at the airport?
Speaker 2:The wildest thing I ever saw at the airport was I had two tables. This was when those storms were coming through and everybody was stuck.
Speaker 1:And one day, or they camped out, they were camping.
Speaker 2:And they had young girls in middle school. One table was from Upper East Side rich Manhattan old money and the other table was Old Atlanta Rich Money. You're such a profiler? Oh, I am. So the Little Manhattan girls had their hair back real tight in ponytails and had on like $300 Tory Burch shoes. They were like 11 to 12, or they had some sort of fancy shoes on. Atlanta had bows in their hair that matched their little outfits. So the little Manhattan girls were staring at the Atlanta girls' bows in their hair and I'm like please don't start this little war.
Speaker 2:In my section we had that battle 150 years ago. Let's all get along. We're past that now. So anyway, the oldest Manhattan girl asked the oldest Atlanta girl why do you wear your hair like that? Oh, good, and little miss Atlanta turned to her and said we only wear our hair like yours when we're playing sports. I was like, oh my God, where's Andy Cohen? There's a show happening in my section. I've never laughed so hard in my entire life. But I was like, thank you, atlanta, you won that battle for us. You won that battle. I just couldn't believe it happened. They kind of in their little worlds. They were like 11 and 12. They didn't know they were being bitchy. You know what I mean. It was like they were right all the time, which made it 10 times funnier.
Speaker 3:They're just being honest kids.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right, and see, it's the candidness, it is the candidness, it is correct. That was even the funniest part, but that stare off was hilarious. I know you've met some celebrities, right?
Speaker 2:You know, that's why I was talking to you guys doing this show. I was always kind of jealous, because I'm not into movies and I'm not into sports and you guys were always having your pictures taken with athletes and famous people.
Speaker 3:There were a ton of people that came. That's not at Love Field, it's more at DFW.
Speaker 2:I've not really seen famous people. So anyway, the bar is in the center. I don't know if your listeners know, but anyway I'm busy as hell At the cantina, at cantina, and I'm walking, I'm face-to-face with the actor, Leslie Jordan. So, as a gay guy, that was a big deal to me Because he's one of the big iconic actors gay actors. He died in 2022. He died suddenly of a heart attack.
Speaker 1:Oh, for all our listeners that don't know David's gay.
Speaker 2:Yes, this is the gay show, and I'm now talking to y'all you are our first LV, that's right. That's why, and you know, for y'all to be a cool show, you have to have that one of those episodes.
Speaker 1:You know what? You would be our friend no matter what, and I love you guys dearly.
Speaker 2:I love y'all like brothers, especially as long as we work together.
Speaker 3:It's crazy, the time just flies by, it does and it gets worse as you get older.
Speaker 2:I'm just telling you. But anyway, I, I'm busy and I'm walking and all of a sudden it's almost like we knew each other. He's like hi, he I guess he knew I was gay as well and I was like hi, how are you so nice to meet you? I got my picture taken with him. Well, um, one of his biggest performances is he was on the show will and grace and if you remember, there was will and grace and then there was um karen and um what was will's best friends, and our sidekick named Sean Hayes is the actor.
Speaker 2:But anyway, karen was very bitchy and Leslie Jordan was her bitchy friend that she was bitchy with. So Leslie, to give you an example, leslie's short and stocky and they were arguing. One time I still laugh she said why don't you go back to your treehouse and start making more cookies? You know, call him a little Keillor, but they were always at each other, so it was perfect when I met him. They will and grace. I think Murphy Brown tried to do a remake. I know Frazier's done one, will and grace did one as well A ton of shows.
Speaker 2:They've got no shows. And I said, leslie, I go. Have they called you to be on the new Will and Grace show? And he was referring to Megan Kelly who plays Karen. He goes, the bitch hasn't called me yet and I thought that was so awesome. I just thought that was so cool that when I end up watching the show that he ended up being back on again on several episodes I'm like, well, I guess the bitch did finally call it.
Speaker 3:I remember seeing him doing like funny TikTok videos during COVID.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, he, yeah, he did a lot of stuff, yeah.
Speaker 3:I remember coming across his and just giggling.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's hilarious and he's always been crazy out there. Well, what made him, what put him on the map per se as an actor, is there was a show called it was actually. It started out as a play and then it went on to become a movie and they tried to do a sitcom. It was called Sorted Lives and it's what I think is interesting. It's called a black comedy but it had Olivia Newton-John, bo Bridges, delta Burke from Designing Women, but it was basically a white trash Texas family and they had he had a brother boy. Was was Leslie's name. The family called him brother boy, but anyway they would. They basically put him in a mental institution just because he was gay and he did drag for the felt for the people at the mental institution and he as tanny winette and that's you know he. That's where he got his big take. And then he had an, the shows about his little nephew becoming gay and his white trash, texas family dealing with it and wait.
Speaker 1:When did this air? What? Uh this air is called what Sorted.
Speaker 2:It's called Sorted Lives, okay, and it started out as a play in the early 90s and then around like 2000,. 2002 is when they did the movie. Huh, and, like I said, it's got a bunch of famous people in it. But it's, like I said, it's a black comedy. You know it's very dark, they, you know it's it's you know it's, it's very interesting movie. I have to put it on a to-do list to watch. Uh but uh, but basically he plays a direct anyway, he escapes and gets out from it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, he escaped, but basically he's in there just because of the simple fact that his family thought he was crazy because he was gay. Yeah, it's a good movie. It's interesting he was in a horror picture show. He was in the Help, the famous movie the Help. He's had little bits and pieces but his big deal was the sordid lives playing brother boy and being in the show Will and Grace. That kind of really put him on the map where everybody knew who he was. But that's my big claim of all the actors that I got to meet as a gay guy. I got to meet Leslie Jordan who else have you run into?
Speaker 2:I'm a big RuPaul drag race fan and you know, here in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex back I'm 58, back in the old days. Just like Dallas and Fort Worth are very different, our gay cultures are very different as well. Fort Worth gay culture is totally different from Dallas. So back when I was young and cute and going out in the 80s, yeah. Cowtown and Uptown are two totally different worlds.
Speaker 2:And so when I was young and started going out, you wanted to stay in Fort Worth but you needed to have more fun in Dallas because it was busier. You wanted to stay in Fort Worth but you needed to have more fun in Dallas because it was busier. But anyway, I kind of was a Fort Worth started out as a Fort Worth gay boy and I was kind of a both a Dallas one Aren't you a gay boy wherever you go.
Speaker 2:No well, I'm just saying back to there's some Fort Worth gay boys that were like I'm not going to Dallas, and they stayed in Fort Worth. I have very my Fort Worth gay friends and then Dallas.
Speaker 1:Dallas was like is there a city to the west of us? That's funny because it was. You know, like growing up, coming out of high school and stuff, when we would go party in college, you know you were either Fort Worth or you were Dallas, and there was just no Y'all too. It's the same thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but us, the Fort Worth gay boys, the world stopped on Sunday night for us to watch the drag show, whereas Roundup, which is the big country Western gay bar in Dallas, they wouldn't. Now they have drag shows. And it still freaks me out to see a drag show at the Roundup, because back in the old days that would have never happened. Uh, starting in the mid 90s, the dance bar s4, station four, is the big gay dance bar in oaklawn area. Uh, off the cedar springs they built the rose room, which was a little room that had this drag and now that has become a national.
Speaker 1:You know, everybody knows the rose room of dallas and many of the rupaul, the famous drag queen show, have come from, uh, the rose room but back in the old really yeah, but back in the old days, dallas, they didn't have drag, only fort worth, so like um, we back in the day like, like I was talking about, uh, on wednesday nights they would have straight nights.
Speaker 2:You remember, Kelsey, I love you for that. So it was funny. They're like I think that's awesome, you knew about straight nights. So what was funny, y'all is. Back in the day, we would all Straight boys had never seen two girls dancing together and I'm like straight boy, don't go out there.
Speaker 1:Why do you think we would Don't go out?
Speaker 2:there, I know, and the straight boys would be salivating. I'm like do not go out there, it's safer here for you. Just listen to your gay friend. Do not go talk to those two girls. They do not want you but you know they'd go out there in that bullseye. I'm like straight boy run Run, but that's so funny. I remember telling one straight guy I'm like this is the straight section, talking about the side over there of this board. I'm like no, this entire neighborhood is the gay section. But what's happening now is, with social media, it's kind of hurt the gay bar business Because you know, I was a young gay guy in South Fort Worth, I had a 45-minute drive to go to the nearest gay bar.
Speaker 1:Now, david, you're still a young gay guy.
Speaker 2:Thank you. Thank you, little Chris. Thank you, I am damn it until you put me in the coffin, but anyway, now, like Pockets, which is a very blue collar, you know, we're here in the mid cities in between Dallas, fort Worth, blue collar, it's a very blue-collar pool hall. That's where the gay guys hang out. In other words, gay guys aren't going to downtown Dallas or downtown Fort Worth, they're just finding their local areas. Well, the same thing's happening now at the gay bars in Oak Lawn. It's expensive to live down there. A lot of it's for medical city, the hospital.
Speaker 2:Anyway, now when you go, there's probably like 30% straight folks now when you do go to the building.
Speaker 3:When I moved down there. Yeah, oh, that's right, you lived down the street. We moved right off of it and that was like the first kind of beginning of that, where it kind of you know.
Speaker 2:Well, in the drag world there's dynasties. So, for example, if one person starts doing drag, in this case the Davenports are the big Dallas drag dynasty, so you take on the last name and you have a drag mother. So anyway, I got to meet. Kennedy yeah, it's all very much that you form a drag family. And now what I've learned is RuPaul's Drag Race has just finished with season 17. You almost now have to be a part of one of those dynasties to get on the show.
Speaker 1:You know it's now that it's entered into the years, it's the networking which, of course, you know it's humans it's not what you know, it's who you know but anyway, I got to meet Kennedy Davenport, who is from that uh dallas dynasty.
Speaker 2:So that was real cool and again, just like with leslie, it was so cool. We knew each other were gay. We instantly just started talking like we've known each other forever. And then the real elliot um is from woxahatchee and his husband came in and had a picture of the real Elliot.
Speaker 3:I go, I know who that is from RuPaul's Drag Race.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, yeah, he's another drag queen from Waxahachie, so it's cool to know the drag queens.
Speaker 1:It goes by the name Real Elliot.
Speaker 2:The.
Speaker 3:Real Elliot Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, there's all kinds. The last show is pretty funny. In Case you Forgot, acacia Forgot, and the one who won this past season 17 on RuPaul's Drag Race. That was On your Nerves. Yeah, drag names are awesome, oh, wow. But what's interesting about RuPaulul is everything was good up until that yeah, I remember one from from australia was uh um katherine from finance and he would dress like a business, yeah they're, they're
Speaker 1:yeah all right it's's, but anyway, back to the airport bars, yeah so anyway.
Speaker 2:I met. I met. Now they come in and see me now whenever they come in and out of DFW, which is really cool. Kennedy Davenport Kennedy Davenport, from Dallas, very famous from from.
Speaker 1:Downstrike anybody else famous you've run into no, that's about it Well at one time we met Jane Lynn.
Speaker 2:Yeah, which was so cool, and I was like yeah, I know her, she was super awesome. Yeah, and Ted Cruz. I've never met the guy I met him both at. I think it's so funny. I was like leave my social security alone. He goes that Ponzi scheme. Let's have a picture. So I have my picture taken. Have a pitcher? So I have my pitcher taken. I'm like you did that on purpose and uh, and then um, and then uh, he.
Speaker 3:I saw him again at crew about a year ago but we had already closed the kitchen when he was trying to go to Cancun. Yeah, you know what I should have asked him? Believe me.
Speaker 2:I wanted to tear into his butt. Uh, ted Cruz is our one of our senators from Texas here. I wanted to say uh-huh.
Speaker 3:I think everybody knows him from just that Right.
Speaker 1:I think everybody knows, a few years back, when we had the snowstorm, senator Cruz gets on a plane to what was it? Cancun Him and his family.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Texas has just froze over.
Speaker 2:The power grid went out. They even had a picture of the little dog in the window. They left the dog, so anyway but that's that's about it on my, you know, because, like I said at love field, we just don't have y'all, we don't have the famous people coming through like you guys at ufw. Oh, and I had one another good story. You know, here in Texas a majority of our wineries are in the hill country.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, like Frederick's.
Speaker 2:Right and all around there, yeah, around Austin. Well, grapevine Right has come around, but all the grapes are being grown in Lubbock. And what I forgot about West Texas is West Texas is hot as hell, but it's cool at night, which the grapes love. But I even told this story to one guy and he said we're getting more per price for grapes than we are cotton, but anyway like I said, we don't have a lot of Europeans.
Speaker 2:We don't have a lot of famous people. Come through crew at Love Field. So this guy about a year ago was from France. I go, sir, where are you headed to today? He goes I'm going to La Ville. I said oh, sir, will you please say if you guys y'all have to know as Texans, that is hilarious to hear, to see Lubbock in your vision and hear a French guy go La Ville.
Speaker 3:It just cracked me up. It sounds so exotic. I was like I said, sir, you made.
Speaker 2:Lubbock way more fancier, but I'm also proud of Lubbock that the guy came from France because he wanted to know about how they grow the grapes. I find that interesting. I thought that was very interesting, so I'm going to laugh my butt off as a Texan, as in the I know right right but, they said, now they're even starting to have wineries there, so we'll see, but I think that's funny.
Speaker 3:I'm highly interested. I've seen, I've seen that at least one brand, yano LL oh, from Lubbock.
Speaker 2:I've seen that all over, yeah but I don't. I'm not sure what else I've seen a lot of them just get shipped to the hill country they may just sell their grapes even. That's what they do. They do that in California all the time.
Speaker 1:I don't know what those bread raiders do in Lubbock.
Speaker 2:Lubbock Alright.
Speaker 1:So Mexican food concept. You worked at Wine Bar now. Yeah, and the Asian food concept Right.
Speaker 2:What else?
Speaker 1:Where else have you worked?
Speaker 2:Well before that, before I worked with you guys at the airport, I'm an old on-the-border person. I'm a Tex-Mex on-the-border. I was with them for many, many years, worked in the banking industry.
Speaker 1:But yeah, that's where my, you know what's interesting.
Speaker 2:I don't know if y'all hear the term anymore, but they call outside of waiting tables, outside the airport street side. I don't know where. I wonder where that term came from. Do y'all know?
Speaker 1:It's just the 24 years I've been at the airport, has always been called the street side, probably just us people looking down from our eyes Right.
Speaker 1:So my daughter just recently quit the airport. She was working for a famous wing chain in the international terminal and she, just a couple of weeks back, she's like she's been calling me for weeks, crying from the bathroom. I just want to walk out this place and I'm just like it's just the airport. You just need to get out of place, sucks. And I'm just like it's just the airport. You just need to get out of the international terminal and you'll be fine. Yeah, because you know what. So she just had the audacity single mom that she is, uh, with my grandson, um, she had the balls to just walk out of her shift, turn in her badge and is like I'm not doing this anymore, not even two hours later on her way home. She's like I'm going to find a job on the way home. And she went to the restaurant capital of Texas and went down the little restaurant row on Main Street in Roanoke and, uh, found herself a job at a Mexican food place.
Speaker 2:And it does well.
Speaker 1:They're paying her nice by the hour, oh cool and uh she's made. Well, because they can. They can, uh, you know, make her the lead bartender, paper um, and pay her by the hour and she's doing great. I just remember she was a baby.
Speaker 2:I can't believe how grown she is? Yeah, she just turned 21. Oh no, I can't believe that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can't believe she's bartending before she's 21. Wow, I mean, it seems to run in our family like that.
Speaker 3:Right, my brother me yeah.
Speaker 2:We all have bartended. How old is your? How does your brother? Which one I forgot, how many?
Speaker 1:brothers do you have? I've got 18.
Speaker 2:Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1:No two. My older brother is 51, and my younger brother is. He's going to be 40 this year. You're the middle child.
Speaker 2:No, not really, Because the youngest one's so much younger.
Speaker 1:Our listeners don't need to know about this. So dad had three boys with three different wives is what it is.
Speaker 2:So my older half-brother.
Speaker 1:My younger half-brother.
Speaker 2:And then there's my half-sister from my mom.
Speaker 1:I forgot about all that. And then there's my half sister from my mom. I forgot about all that, and then I would never forget my sister, my stepsister, that I grew up with. Yeah.
Speaker 2:She's my sister, who all works at the airport.
Speaker 1:Who all works at the airport. That's family. My brother has worked at the airport. He was our first bartender guest on episode 3. Oh, wow, yeah, brotherly love, that's right. My sister and I used to wait tables together back in the day at Shenanigans at TJF, right, oh yeah, oh yeah, a lot of shenanigans. But as far as other family that I've worked with at the airport, my older brother worked for me back in the day when we worked at the little art bar. He was our delivery driver. He would go up to the terminal with the van on the tarmac, load the van up with like kegs and pre-made sandwiches and things and we would ship it out to the little.
Speaker 1:So you've been 25 years at the airport coming up on 24 of this August. Wow, too damn long. Yeah, and then uh, you know, my ex brother-in-law worked two of my ex-brother-in-laws my sister's ex-husband and my ex-wife's brother. I have both for me. Who else? My sister-in-law, my brother's wife? Because we do, we're lucky, you know, no nepotism there.
Speaker 3:Uh-uh, you know no nepotism there, uh-uh.
Speaker 1:But you know, that's when I managed restaurants way before I wised up in like what 2013?
Speaker 3:Hopped back behind the bar again. Yeah, that's when I met you, yeah, behind the bar.
Speaker 1:Yes, geez. Was I though, because you know, I remember you were talking about boss Maria and we've we've talked a few times about Robert. I remember the first time they ever walked in. I'm pouring shots for the this girl that had just turned 21 and her mom's with her and a bunch of other girls, and there's this. I won't name any names, but there's this young blonde girl, it's anyways. She's waiting tables and she goes over to Robert and Maria and proceeds to tell them Chris has given away free shots. Drama, drama, drama.
Speaker 1:So Of course, after the shift, robert comes up to me. He's like you're not going to be in the bar anymore. I said why? He said because you're giving away shots. I said pull up the cameras and go look at the receipt. Everything was rung up. And he's like I don't have to do that. He's like you're just not going to be in the bar anymore. Really, yeah. And then for two weeks I wasn't in the bar and he comes back to me and he's like we need you in the bar.
Speaker 2:That is just how y'all, that is just how our lives is as being airport waiters and bartenders. Oh well, some of our old bosses had some crazy power trips. Yes, they did.
Speaker 1:You know, let's put it out there for our listeners about Maria Boss.
Speaker 2:Maria, we thought the company was going bankrupt because they couldn't pay us our tips. Remember I threw.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was like weeks at a time.
Speaker 1:So what it is is we would get tipped out cash from all the waiters and waitresses, which we still do to an extent. It just goes through a computer system now. We would get tipped out cash and they would put it, the waiters and waitresses would turn it into the manager, they would put it in an envelope and inside that one main envelope there would be individual envelopes with all the bartender's names on them and each night they would get a portion of the tip share. Well, and you could come collect it the next day or your next shift, whenever you worked, and you would get this you know little bit of cash coming in and taking the whole envelope and going to, uh, winstar, the casino about an hour north of here, out of the dfw airport, um, and taking it and using it all to gamble with one of our fellow workers.
Speaker 2:I can't remember her name. She said I saw boss maria at winstar with the actual tip share envelope.
Speaker 3:You're like I saw my name, yeah, but not only was she the actual tip share envelope, you're like. I saw my name on it, yeah, with the actual envelope, but not only was she taking the tip?
Speaker 2:share money now, our tips that we make as servers and bartenders, we get in our paychecks which is awesome and deposited in our banking accounts. Back in the old days, and especially being an old waiter, you always got your credit card tips at the end of the night. They didn't have even the money to pay that.
Speaker 3:We didn't even get that at Corsair. We weren't getting paid anything.
Speaker 2:We weren't even getting our tip money.
Speaker 3:And I was going on vacation for three weeks. And luckily Mary was like you know what I need to get this? And luckily she gave me my three weeks that I had been waiting on of money but we weren't collecting it for like. But you thought you would never think boss maria would do something like that, you seem. She seemed very professional.
Speaker 2:Well, she was like the most serious by the right book, like yeah, so it was surprising, but I was. We really thought the company was going under. I thought it was the best thing that ever happened yeah I do too. I couldn't stand that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she was something else I would always walk up to her because she would walk in like a robot and she would be frowning. I would always make her high five me.
Speaker 2:And then she would like grin a little bit.
Speaker 1:So there was this one time we've talked about Edna on the show you know Edna. Yeah, basically she's damn near related to my youngest son's baby, my baby's mama. That's right, and it's I forgot about that it's my Okay, so it's basically my youngest son's grandmother it's her best friend.
Speaker 2:Okay, I knew there was a connection there Through the baby shower, you know, million years ago for my baby's mom.
Speaker 1:But so one day I grab, I'm over at the cantina and I go back over to the Asian Concepts. I had to go over there for something, and that's when both of those restaurants were still one company.
Speaker 1:and uh, so liam, our buddy that's been on the show yeah he asked me hey, uh, grab me a monster out of the fridge. So I grabbed one out of the the to-go stand up front and so I grab it and go back over to canteen. I grabbed two. As a matter of fact, I grabbed one for myself. I go back over to cantina and I give them a monster or whatever. And I see Maria later. She goes hey, did you take a couple of monsters out of the to-go stand over at Cantina? I was like, yeah, she's like. You know, that's theft, right? I said it's under five bucks.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:We earned that, you earned that.
Speaker 1:I was like it's under five bucks. I was like Liam asked me to get him a soda. And you know she loved Liam. I was like. Liam asked me to get him one.
Speaker 2:She loved me too thank God.
Speaker 1:She's like well, we're going to teach you a lesson. I'm going to suspend your badge for a week. I was like how am I supposed to work and make money? She's like I don't know I. How am I supposed to work and make money? She's like I don't know. I was like all right. I said and what am I supposed to tell James about the? Or what am I supposed to tell Mandy about the schedule at Cantina? She's like I don't know what you going to do. Wow.
Speaker 3:So she took it out.
Speaker 1:At the time I there was a young lady I was dating who just so happened to be an executive at American Airlines.
Speaker 3:And.
Speaker 1:I would just book me on a flight. And so I'm in there working without my badge, oh wow. And I just so happened to be clocked out and Maria sees me and she goes don't I have your badge? I said I believe. So yeah, I said yeah. I said I don't need it, why she goes. How are you in the airport? I said I'm a passenger and I just kept walking, wow.
Speaker 2:Oh, how funny. Oh, that's awesome. That's so you, chris, that is so you?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm a passenger, I'm a civilian today, yeah, I'm flying out.
Speaker 1:I got to go.
Speaker 2:That's hilarious.
Speaker 3:I got to get this 1038 to Kentucky. Oh how funny. That is hilarious.
Speaker 1:Oh man, that's hilarious. Oh man, that's hilarious. David man, thank you so much for coming.
Speaker 2:Oh, you guys, thank you so much, I've enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:We will be having you back very soon. Yay, guys, that's what we got for this week. Thank you, guys, so much for keeping up with the show. We are almost there with getting our equipment, equipment, and then you will see us up on YouTube very soon and we will be back soon with another episode. Peace, guys, peace.
