Best fast food in the car. Is a hot dog a sandwich? On a flight, middle seat gets both armrests!

The guys discuss how not to make a mess while eating fast food in the car.
If a sub is a sandwich, then what is a hotdog? Also a sandwich? Can we all agree the middle seat on a plane gets both armrests?

Episode Transcript

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M hmm. This is over FinkPopcraft, the Eating Over the Sinc Podcast,
quite possibly the world's perfect podcast.Thank you so much for listening Eating
over the Sinc. I'm Mike Raffertywith my two dear friends, JP the
Brits per Sword, what's up everyone? And Officer Andy Depride of Grove Port

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Madison High School Stults. How areyou? Boys? What's up? Email
is Eating over the Sink one atgmail dot com and Instagram, JP the
brit Is Eat over the Sink onthe ground. That's a great way to
keep up with us. I'm gonnaget into today, boys about um drive
through food. When's the last timeyou picked up a bag of burgers or

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whatever in the drive through thirty minutesago? And then we'll go by just
I've got to I've got to refereveryone back to a previous episode about my
little pet peeve of the drive through. Right, just remind everybody, like,
if I'm going into a fast foodishplace, restaurant kind of thing,
Starbucks, anything like that, likeI'll go inside and pick up my food

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because I feel guilty. What doyou feel guilty about? I don't know,
I'm stupid. What's the guilt fromI don't know, I feel like
it's bad food for me, soI need to go in. And so
you want the exercise out of it. I don't know what it is.
There's it's really no good reason.And you are you guys are fully capable
of mocking me on this one.But like I think, I'm bracing myself.

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You go inside and never never comeinside. Like after like if you're
on a road trip, right,like you've been driving for like four or
five hours, you pull out.You know you pretty much the only thing
to get is fast food. IfI'm going in, I'm eating inside.
No way, I never eat insideever. I'm never going in pulling the
bag and then walking back to thethat's doing. That's right, Well I've

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done that. If it's like thewhole thing in your situation, JP brit
of having to go in, maybeuse the restroom, you're but like I
know to get where I'm going,so I don't want to stop. So
Okay, we're gonna pee, we'regonna order food, we're getting back in
the car and we're back on thefreeway. Yeah. Gone. But like
if I leave the station to dayand go through a drive thood which hard

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it online, but if I did, I would pull it out and get
it. And I also have thismisconception that is faster if I do that,
because the lines like Chick fil Athat wraps around the globe like five
times to get your food, LikeI'm super efficient though I know it is,
but my brain tells me, likeI come mask it out, your
calm and go inside, it'll befaster, And it never is. I

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got that, you know. Ithink the drive through is one of the
greatest American inventions of all time.I agree period better than a hot dog
and grape jelly through a drive throughin less than two or three minutes to
get your food and you're on yourway. What's what's your strategy? Like,
do you do you purposely go torestaurants because you know the drive through

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experiences that or is it more aboutthe food? Um, it's never about
the food. It's all about likeif you want to go through a drive
through and you're on a trip,so you're gonna do drive through? Back
on the road, get going,I go for usually the I pull off
the freeway, the closest one.It doesn't matter McDonald's, Burger King,

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Taco Bell, whatever, back onthe road. But when you order,
if you're driving, when you order, you have to order according to that.
So if you're driving, the foodyou order has to be at you
know, be able to eat inthe car and drive at the same time
and not get it on your shirt. Which is why Taco Bell is a

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bad it's a bad choice. Now, if I we do do like a
Taco Bell, you pull off intothe parking lot, park, eat it
there, then get back on theroad. Yeah, but when you order
the food, you want to ordersomething that's not going to be messy,
something you can eat with one handand keep driving, and something that's really

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reasonable. So I mean, youdon't want to get like a big Burger
with lettuce and tomato and onion onit because it's gonna go all over the
place. I feel like old fastfoods messy, like I do the whole
But when I'm driving, if i'meating and when i'm drying, there's always
an option on the menu that's notslopped chicken nuggets. Yes, that's a
perfect drive through it. It's notreal chicken though nuggets chicken. It's chicken

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product. Yeah, it's chicken withoutchicken. So it's like nuggets or um
breakfast stuff. You can do thesausage britos. Everything's rolled up in a
tortillo shell, quick and stuff likethat. So you're not gonna do like
you're not gonna break open a salsapacket and you know you're not doing that.

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That is true. But you areeating and driving and being efficient and
all that. You know, doyou have a preference, so like you're
not on a road trip now,like now you're just you're you're hungry,
and how am I going to eatit? Am I eating in the car?
Am I going in? Am Iin the parkment? You're in the
car. You're in the car andI'm driving. You have to go through
the drive through, right, Okay, I take a quder please, So

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if I go, I'm in thecar eating, I go through. Like
we'll say McDonald's, I'm gonna gosmaller burgers, so I'll go like cheeseburgers
instead of quarter pounders with cheese,smaller, maybe no pickle, just mustard
and catch up. So because thepickle might just flop on your shirt.
So I'm ordering a thing, Well, you don't want to mess up your

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shirt? Yeah, I mean you'redriving, you don't want to bake mustard
stain on your shirt. The twocheeseburger meal at McDonald's is money for that,
and you want when you're when you'rehungry. Yep, and a lot
of it's not on a lot ofmenus to either, but you can still
ask for it and they'll give itto you. Two cheeseburgers, a fry,
and a drink. Huh and adrink. Now you're going through McDonald's,

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you're getting you know, coke donecoke. I don't drink sodas I
go. Bottle of water. That'sthe bottle water out of a fast food
restaurant, Yes, I do.Did they laugh at you? They don't.
You know. My wife gets somad because it's like, you know,
that's like four hours. We havebottle of water. Now do they
hand it to you? You getit? It's warm because it's they don't

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even chill those. Yeah, it'sokay. Yeah. But anyways, back
to the look I got antlers,Back to the driving No lettuce on sandwiches,
Absolutely, no lettuce on a drivingsandwich? Does that then disqualify disagree
about the big Max? Like ifyou remove the lettuce from a Big Mac,

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is a big no. No,no, no, Now you're getting
philosophical. You should never order abig Mac on a drive. I've done
it before. You just see.See I think I get out into the
fast night. If I'm on thefreeway, I get out into the fast
night, cruise control. Lift myknees, some steering, my knees.
Yeah, I got two free onthe bag. Are you taking a crap
in the lakes? You lift yourknees, that's WoT it around. No,

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I lift my knees on my steeringwheels, resting on my knees,
and I'm just make sure the trucks. You're being super safe, is what
you're doing. Yeah, knees putit in cruise control. Drive with your
knees as you eat a big Mac. Yeah yeah, I mean I have
one. The problem is your wifefeeding you fries as you're driving. She's

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very helpful, that's very helpful.She dumps the fry packet like the container
that comes into the bag, soI can just reach in. I don't
have to navigate your hand and mettleof your arm as all salt and you're
going down like you're eating like popcorn. Yeah. Basically, I love I
love the bonus fries in the bagafter fast food. So if you're driving

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and you've got your reaching, yeah, you got your burger or whatever,
and you get a couple of friesand you're done, and you're like,
open up the bag and there's likefour fries still in there. Yeah,
that's the best French fried. Thebonus fries are the best. Yes,
And I will have my hand inthat bag, that fast food bag before
I pull out of that drive through. Now the smart way to do the

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bag. I pay and then Iam like that first fry is down.
My fame, I'm not even I'mnot even out of the lot. So
what you should do with the friedbag is to roll down the bag,
the big bag. The big bag, you roll down on the outsides so
you don't have far to reach forthe fries. Are you with rolling down?

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I completely understand the description. I'mjust like, you're not with me
that I don't. Officer Randy staysup at night thinking about this. To
do this, I'm gonna I'm gonnareally and I'm gonna count my strategy.
But you roll it on the bagand you put the bag right there in
the middle console and you're just baI've done just going. Really, I
didn't those Let's take the typical McDonald'sbag. Those things are so poorly made

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up. Can you actually roll that? Yeah, it's just a paper bag.
It's made it's not a quality paperbag. If you know it.
That way, you can put yourwives fries and you're fries in the same
bag. I see the game,and if you eat fast enough, you
can eat a little better price.Is there a slight peanut butter? Is

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there a restaurant that you wish howto drive through you that doesn't Yeah,
Olive Garden, Olive Got, butyou can't get the the endless bread sticks.
He was so excited to say that, you should have seated it.
You don't want to get like thechicken parm and the and the car ride,
but that would be nice to getit. Don't think it's not any
restaurant. Now you have drive like, thank you to COVID that you can
just order and they'll bring it outto your car. And that's almost like

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a drive through, right, Imean, you gotta wait a minute,
but that's a great idea though.Olive Gone, I like Olive Gone,
Olive Gone drive so you gotta eata salad in the car. Yeah,
it's tough. Where do the kidsget when you guys are on hockey traps
on in the car? Where dothey normally? It? Uh, burgers
are nuggets? So been sandwich questionwhen they go when you're in a drive
through and they go and you getsay nuggets or something, and they go,

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what kind of sauce do you want? No sauce? No sauce is
the correct answer, officer, righty, because it's like that's messy. So
Bev gets the mustard and something else. I forget. When you're the passenger,
she mixes like you get your vehicledetail when you get that nuggets and
he'll go onion rings? Where fromanywhere? So being Donald's Burger King.

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McDonald's doesn't do burger anywhere that's gotonion rings, cougars on yours. I
can't remember the last time I wentto a Burger King or a Taco Bell.
Burger King has great. Their burgersare really good. The wapper is
uh uh a secret. It's underrated. I believe I would agree that flame.
It's really it's a grilled yes burger, not just on a flat and

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they put a lot of fixings onit. Fixens, fixing. Where are
you from? We'll see fixing highschools, fixing. His house is roof,
get some good vitals down there.King Burger Kings Burger is a bigger
though too, right, Like,yes, they're b yeah, yeah,
I'd like that from if it's abox, they're they're they're nice. Yeah.

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Sand would prefer a sandwich like aJimmy Jones or Jersey Mikes or whatever.
Well, what's the difference of sandwich, I'm sorry and a sandwich.
Well, it's not called Jimmy John'ssandwich shop. Well, a sub is
a type of sandwich. It's asub. It's the role right like it

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looks like submarine sandwich. Sandwich issquare, sub is long, long,
long, elongated. A sub isa type of sandwich. You have meat
and other items between bread. Veryinteresting, Um, there is no debate
there. Okay, so this we'regonna go off script. We didn't plan

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for this. We're gonna do thisnow, Okay. Is a hot dog
of sandwich? And I say,yes, it absolutely is if you eat
it on two pieces of bread,I guess no, it's on a bun.
That's yeah. I would say it'sa sandwich. It's sandwich. It's
like it's like the conversation you're gonewith French fries, Like there's there's French
fries and tight a tots. There'sdifferent categories. You have cheese as a

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sandwich, no matter what. Correct. Yeah, if you put it in
a wrap, is a sandwich.Wrap is a type of sandwich. It's
a sub category. Nah. Seethat's where I'm gonna throw that one.
Very interesting. I don't think arap is a sandwich actually actually not a
sandwich. Wrap is not a sandwich, and a hot dog is not a
sad. You look at a menu, it'll say sandwiches and wraps same category,

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so it doesn't say sandwiches. Andthen you go down and see a
rap, it says sandwiches and wraps. Two different things, but it's on
the same but there in the samesection, so it's the same family.
I would say a hot dog isabsolutely a sandwich. Well it's in the
same family. And since you pickit up and eat it, but it's
not the same you eat it,it's got It involves a bread, a
meat, cheese, potentially a vegetable, some sort of spread or whatever.

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Like the sandwich dog hot dogs.Actually, you know what a hot dogs,
Actually a tacco. What a hotdog isn't because are you on drug?
No? Do you have any hotdog? Is a tacco? Yeah,

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torco taccoco three sides, bread side, bread bottom, bread side.
Same with a tortilla bottom tortilla.No, tortilla isn't bread. Well,
of course, tortilla is a bread. It's it's some sort it's in the
bread family. It's some sort ofit's an unleavened bread with a grain of

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flour or a corn, a littlebit of fat, and it's it's baked
or fried. So when you goto Chipotle, you order a sandwich,
order a burrito or a tacco.Is that now you're selling sandwich? That's
a sandwich, No, I said, I said a hot dog. It's
a tacco. But I'm lost,everybody, Let's go back to Let's go

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back to the hot dog being asandwich though, like a sub is a
sandwich a submarine sandwich. It's agrinder or a hog, right, whatever
you want to call it. That'sa type of sandwich. You got this
big category sandwich. You got theselittle subcategoys. You got sub a sandwich,
a hot dog. I cannot getmy head around getting then he saw

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a barrio ll taco in that calland get a sandwich. Okay, I'll
give you that. No, I'llconcede. I'll can see that's a separate
category. It's definitely. I'm tryingto get there for hot dog as a
sandwich. I'm trying to be onyour side. Raft Okay, but what
is it if it's not see crickets, right, So you've got to give
it a category. It's a sandwich. Is a Hamburger sandwich? Yes?

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Yes, In fact, they wereoriginally called Hamburger sandwiches when they were He
he's got so much not intelligence.It's just useless. He is smart.
Hamburger sandwich. I don't know whatit is. But I don't know if
I can get there by saying ahot dog is a sandwich. I can't
get that. Meat sometimes, cheese, coney, sauce, whatever condiment that's

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not it's a sandwich. So anybodylistened out there. If you've gone a
good alternative argument to say a hotdog isn't a sandwich, we'd love to
hear from you, because I can'tthink of a good I don't. I'm
trying. It's a it's close,but I don't know if I can say
that there's going to be somebody thatthat could argue with me that a hot

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dog is actually a taco, believethat we should talk about alien We've all,
I think, done some air travelrecently. Yes, um in this
calendar year. I used to loveto fly. Now I hate to fly.

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I feel like the airplane and theairport has become like it's unbearable.
It's unbearable, like I don't wantto fly. It's just a it's a
drag in today's travel climate. Sowe had I got stuck in the middle
seat recently coming back from Los Angeles. I'm not a small guy. I'm
not a huge person either, butit's just like the middle seat for an

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adult male that's six foot tall ismiserable. The debate is, if I'm
in the middle seat, I getboth armrests, I'm taking the bullet.
I'm in the middle seat, Iget both armrests. I don't have a
problem with that. You've got thewindow, you can lean, you can
sleep better at the window. Yougot the view. The aisle is obviously
my preference. I can stretch out, I can get the one leg out.

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You get one arm rest on thewindow or the aisle middle seat gets
both armrests. I'll fight you forthat. I'll fight you for the other
armrests. So first first, soyou should get two. If you're on
the aisle, you get too.Because I have to. I have to
get my ass up if you haveto go to pie. I just said
pie the laid response there. Butwhat is rug anyway? Yeah, because

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I'm I'm I'm the cut your guythat has to get up and you guys
out when you need to go tothe I don't sit in the middle,
I said, well I don't.I'm not a medal seat. Yeah,
I like the window. I putmy wife in the middle seat. Then
I don't have to talk to nobodyand we do. Kid in the middle
seat is the smallest person. Well, well, if we do have all

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three of us, yeah, myboy will go in the middle. But
if we go a middle seat,my wife and then I'm on the window,
we lift the arm rest up.Yep, we go no arm rest?
A little bit more remy, youshould you should try that with a
with a stranger. Do you mindif I lift that up just just as

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I'm scooting into the seat, becauseI'm going in first, I lift it
up right, I'll just pull itright up. Huh, that's what we
do. I'm surprised you prefer thewindow. Yeah, I would prefer the
window. Uh. Coming back fromour last trip, I had the aisle,
which is fine too. It's goodtoo. Look like uh we are

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on the right side. I hadleft leg like down the middle of the
aisle, rolled stretched out. Nice. See your first mistake coming back from
la is you didn't like the airline. Yeah. Yeah, first so we
use southwest seat so you can sitwherever you want to say, so,
which is nice. Pet peeve ofthat, though, is I always do
that early bird, pay the twentybucks off third bucks whatever to get early

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bird, and it's supposed to checkyou in. And when I always check
my tickets, I'm in like middleBees, and I always end up going
up to the count being like,oh no, I just paid like thirty
bucks to get in the ad I'mlike halfway back and be give them money.
But you're really crying about that.Well, if I'm paid for something
extra, I expect to get from. Where do you guys like to sit
on the plane front back metal asfar front as possible. Yeah? Now,

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I'm always in the back front highpercentage of surviving in a crash is
true. The only thing about sittingin the front you board first, so
you're waiting a long time before theplane takes off. You're watching people come
bitch and complaining, and they're comeand throw and they're crying about their seat
or the overhead. But you're firstoff. First off is great because I
hate sitting there. I'm the guythat stands when the plane lands. Hundred

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percent about to ask you, Ilike to get off first. Yeah,
that's and I know it drives peoplecrazy, but it's just like I've been
sitting for two hours. My legsare tired. I want to stand up
immediately. When that when that seatsigned thing, I'm standing up, I'm
standing my sitter, I'm just I'msitting. I don't get up until i'm

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walking out. Because you're in thewindow aisle, the window stand. You
can't stand? What about you gotthat can do the hunch? What about
the old seat recline? What whatdo you negative? You don't do it.
I don't recline, and I don'twant the person in front of me
reclining either. I'm not a recliner. Say I'm a recliner Oline. I

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think the chemicalpa is it reclines likea cor of an inch. I mean,
it's not like I'm sitting in youryou know, in your lap.
But I'm definitely a recliner because thatgives normally, like when I'm flying,
I'm flying for work, so andfirst class. I wish I'm flying for
work, so that little bit oflike half inch back gives me, you
know, a little bit more spaceto work. And then the reason I

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said earlier like I'll fight for thearmrest is because I then rest my elbows
on the armrest so I can typeon my lab. We would not we
would not travel well together. Howabout JP, brit How about when when
you know you've you've got your seat, so southwest right, you pick your
seat. I'm always going for anaisle, you know, I don't.
I don't particularly care if it's frontback. I'd like to go get to
the back. I don't mind waitingto get off. When you're flying by

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yourself for work, Yeah, youwant an aisle? Yeah? Are you
picking a row that has nobody inat the start and you sit in the
aisle? Are you going down andfinding like a seat that's just left in
the aisle. How do you pickthe I normally I do not. I
normally pick with someone sitting in thewindow, so I feel like there's a

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higher probability of a single not sittingthere. You know, if they say
that the seat, that it's nota full flight, I will pick.
So they're on the window. Whenyou sit in the aisle, you're hoping
for nobody in the middle. Correct, that's a good way to do.
Couples come and then you know they'regonna sit right next to you and all
that stuff. Do you make eyecontent with the people coming down the aisle
when they're like, when you've gotso you've you've sat down, you've got

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your window mate, and there's anopen seat. Are you looking? Are
you head of your life? Please? Don't you know what the worst is?
When you play Southwest, you knowyou got people checked in at different
times that are flying together and they'resaving seats. Steps should be disallowed.
You're walking down and you're you startto look at an area. Are saved?

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Grandma? Who you should just sitdown? They're not appreciate you saving
me a seat. Yeah, youcan't save seats on a plane. I
think that's unless it's for a kidor something. No, way, that's
not right. We've flu an entirefamily. We're getting on the plane and
it was, you know, threeseaters. So wife goes in, two
boys go in the next row behindwas the exit. We had talked about

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me sitting across the aisle, soit's those three than me. Yeah.
Instead I sit in the exit rowright behind them. Beautiful. Wait a
minute, so I'm thinking, I'mthinking beautiful too, right, I can
stretch out as they're boarding, andthen the flight attendant comes down and goes,
hey, you know you're in theexit row. Are you qualified?

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Yes? I am, And likemy wife's kind of looking back and she's
like, are they with you?I was like yeah, and she's like,
now you know, sir, becauseyou're at the exit aisle, you
have to help other people on theplane before you help your family. And
I said yes, I said,no problem. That caused a fight.
I didn't hear the end of thatthe whole vacation. She's like, really

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really, I'm like, hun,I would have helped you first. I
gotta tell her that so I canget you would have said anything to keep
that, to keep that seat absolutely, but she didn't see it that way.
She's going, um, no,you said you would help the strangers
before you help the family. I'mlike, I want the leg room.
Yes, I never that's interest.I've never heard that before. I mean
it makes sense, right, Likeyou've got a fiducier or a responsibility to

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help others right before you. It'slike, I'll put your put your own
off, put your own mask onfirst, but all bets a right,
this plane's going down, all betsare off. That's right. I'm saving
my ass first