October 8, 2024 • 32 mins
Remember the first time you stepped into an airport bar and realized it was a world of its own? This week, we invite you to pull up a stool and join our co-bartender AT, a Mississippi native turned Texan, who shares his fascinating transition from serving lattes to crafting cocktails. Listen as AT takes us on a trip down memory lane, reliving his early days at Starbucks before discovering the greener pastures of airport bartending. With better pay, structured hours, and a delightful mix of patrons, AT's journey is filled with laughter and unexpected run-ins, including a memorable saga with a cane-wielding senior citizen determined to defy the bar's drink limits.
The chaos doesn't stop there as we find ourselves amidst the holiday frenzy, encountering a flamboyant traveler who brings his own brand of drama to the bar. Picture a scene where this new-to-the-airport character fumbles through social blunders, trying to charm everyone from families to businesswomen. As tensions rise and accusations fly, our patient bartender Bailey keeps the peace with grace and humor, proving that sometimes the biggest challenge isn't serving drinks but managing the personalities that come with them. It's a rollercoaster of laughs and lessons on handling the unpredictable with style.
And just when you think you've heard it all, Saturday morning at the airport bar introduces us to Marty, whose quirks and confrontations over drink presentations test the limits of bartending patience. Navigating these unpredictable waters is no small feat, but it's all part of the adventure of airport bartending, where no two days are alike. Join us for stories that bring out the humor in the hustle and the art of maintaining a welcoming atmosphere despite the occasional bump in the road. Grab your headphones, sit back, and enjoy the tales behind the bar.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey guys, welcome back.
Episode 11,.
Pull Up A Bar Stool.
Welcome back to TFAB.
Tales From An Airport Bar.
I've got my esteemed co-hostBlake.
I'm Chris and this week we haveour co-bartender, our good
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friend and colleague AT.
Welcome to the show.
What's up, man, what's up?
So tell us a little bit aboutyour background.
Where are you from?
Where are you?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
from Well, originally from Mississippi, been living
in the DLW since 2000.
This is home.
You're a Texan.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Definitely Okay.
Oh yeah, been here long enough.
You're like me, got here asquick as you could Never left.
So how did you get into workinginto the airport?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Tell us a little bit about that.
First time I ever worked in theairport was probably 2007.
Me and a good friend of mine,we both applied to work at HMSz.
We ended up being baristas atStarbucks and that was my first
job there.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
That was short-lived, you know son, I remember, yeah,
we've talked about those stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, that was short-lived, I can imagine for
that pay.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Dealing with that.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, you know, I was young though.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, you're like let's just see it was a job.
I was young, though In yourlife, let's just see, it was a
job.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I was in high school, you went to the airport.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
That's cool.
Let's see what's up.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
My friend.
He stayed there the whole timeafter I left, which was over 10
plus years.
After that, I was re-invited togo start serving tables at the
restaurant.
That's how I ended up workingat Cantina.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Okay so.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
What were your first thoughts the first week you
started doing this?
Yeah, was it bad?
And different.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
You know, coming from street side serving I had been
working, I had been working atAHA serving overnight.
That's a whole different crowdright there.
They're all restaurants whenthey get to use, dealing with a
whole bunch of different typesof people.
You know, drunks outside of itfor small tips, if not, you know
.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Sorry, I spent it all at the bar.
If you get a, tip at all.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
So you know, versus going to the airport, I thought
it was a little bit morestructured.
I was doing the same work, ifnot less work, for more money.
That was all I needed to see.
This will work, probably lesshours.
Definitely less hours, lesswork, more money.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
No brainer.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
We about.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
You mentioned some crazy run-ins, this and that no
brainer.
So you mentioned some crazy runins, this and that.
I was talking with one of ourother co-bartenders this morning
and we'll have him on soonenough.
Shout out to our boy, bailey,but so tell me about a time a
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crippled old man tried to fightyou.
What's good, aj.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I don't know if he tried to fight me or if he had
some type of energy abouthimself, but he didn't want that
.
I didn't want that either,because I don't want to be going
to jail for fighting ahandicapped.
You know they take that serious.
That's not good.
I was taught to respect myelderly.
But he come to the bar, him andhis wife I'm assuming they had
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been elsewhere drinking becausehe was kind of chill.
He came in and he got hisMichelob Ultra, she got her
seltzer water.
Get him another drink.
He's throwing it back All of asudden.
Me and Bailey, we go about ourday.
All you hear is stop it, likefrom behind us.
(04:21):
I'm looking around.
I don't see anything that'snoticeable.
I guess they're trying to,they're arguing amongst
themselves, but you know We'veseen that before.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
So I stay out of their business Traveling with a
couple is stressful.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
All I know is three beers later his wife gets up and
leaves the restaurant and heasked for another one.
So I give him what he asked for.
He also asked for another shot.
He asked for a shot to go withthat last beer and I told him
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about.
You know, the four-drink limitCan't have more than four.
I apologize, you know, itdefinitely don't help me.
The four drink limit Can't havemore than four.
I apologize, it definitelydon't help me but it helps me.
It's just a law, I'm just doingmy job.
So you know, the typical guylike him of his age, the elderly
guy that is told what he can'thave, he responded like a child,
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he got angry, tells me don'thave he responded like a child.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
He got angry, tells me.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Don't you be like that.
You don't tell me what to.
I'm sorry, sir, I'm going totake that shot from you.
I grab the drink and I throw itaway.
You don't need it.
I'll resell it.
That's on me, okay, he's on me,okay.
He gives his card.
Once he gets his card, I swipehim and charge him.
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He's still rowdy, still talkingcrazy.
He's like don't you be dirty,don't you be low down?
I'm like, excuse me, sir.
He's like what's wrong?
You want to talk down?
I'm like, excuse me, sir,what's wrong?
You want to talk?
I said actually, sir, I don'twant to talk, I'm done talking,
that's it.
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But I would like to keep my job,so I'm going to go get the
manager.
I can't tell when you can talkto him if you want to talk.
I walk out of the bar and he'ssitting on seat four or five.
He raises up as if he was readyto get ready to fight or
something.
And I look and I I like to see,was him balancing himself on a
cane.
Bro, I, I felt so stupid.
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I felt so stupid for the factthat I let a guy that ain't even
physically fit get me out mycharacter, as if he wanted to
fight.
I would walk to the back.
He like yeah, what's up, littleman, what you want to do,
little man, let's talk.
Bro, I don't want to talk toyou.
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I will come slap you, but thisain't the time or the place, and
I know better than that Becausewe are at the airport and my
background is clean.
I would like to keep it thatway.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
This is somebody else's job to handle it.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Now we've got to this point, they get up.
At this point I go get themanager, they get up.
They have a word with him.
He's getting up, he's leavinganyway and they just, you know,
from that point forward I sawhim hobbling and he was one too
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many.
It was one too many and he wasdrinking Ultra.
Just put that out there.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Normally, when someone's drinking Ultra, you're
like, alright, we're not goingto get that rowdy.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yeah, you know, but yeah, that was that he felt
tough.
We're not gonna get that rowdy,yeah, but yeah that was dead.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
He felt.
He felt tough.
You know it happens time andagain um jesus uh, speaking of
tough guys, uh, um, we've hadall kinds of incidents.
Bailey was telling me alsoabout a time somebody called him
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a cracker.
Not to be confused with acouple of times we're going to
talk about here in a second thatI've been called a cracker.
Do you recall this one aboutBailey, though?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I definitely do.
I hear that word every day.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
And I don't know why that's been so predominant of a
word lately.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
It's just, I don't know, it's just another term.
People of ignorance useWhatever, but that was funny
after the fact.
It was definitely funny afterthe fact and this is why.
So the guy come in, he has it'slike the middle of December, he
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has some like a purple t-shirt,he has some earphones, like
some earmuffs, he's bald-headed,he got tattoos and he got
piercings on his eyebrows, onhis nose, says you know somebody
that's going to alert you justoff appearance.
And I'm not judging, it's just,it's just human nature.
That being said, he come in thebar, he get his drink, he's
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chilling.
You can always tell whensomebody not used to traveling,
not used to being in the airport, and this is just one of those
cases and it's that time of year, it's Christmas time, it's
Christmas holiday.
People are traveling Guy comesin, he's all dramatic about
missing his flight because hewas delayed from his earlier
flight.
Of course you know that'stypical in the airport.
Come in and get his beer, drink, chips and salsa.
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Also order a shot.
I don't know what it is aboutthe combination of a beer and a
shot.
It just brings something out ofpeople, Yep.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
It's probably something they're not normally
doing A lot of them too.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
All right.
So this guy, he's alreadydramatic about how he's, you
know, late for his plane.
Oh man, I don't know what I'mgoing to do.
He keeps getting all thenotifications from American
Airlines.
They keep pushing his flightbag.
All right, sir, can I getanother one?
Can I get another one?
Okay, this is his third beer.
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He proceeds to get up and go tothis lady's table with her
daughter younger daughter shehad to be at least 12 years or
younger and he starts to flirtwith her.
Wow, Jesus Christ, here we go.
The lady runs him away and I'mlooking.
I'm like man, do you see thatguy?
He's over here tripping, hemoving, as if we are in a
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nightclub.
But this is not that type ofenvironment where you have to be
doing that, and it's definitelynot the age range to be doing
that, definitely Club Cantina.
He leaves her table and ofcourse you know we got those
business travelers, group ofyoung women, group of women
traveling together for work.
There was about four of them atthe table.
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They had six chairs pulled up,one was empty.
He just invites himself totheir table, sit down, start a
conversation.
They're laughing and giggling.
Of course they're brushing themoff.
He proceeds to buy them a drink.
He only bought two drinks outof four.
He keeps coming to the bar.
He comes from their table tothe bar, like let me get another
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one.
Let me get another one.
Okay, sir, now we're noticingwhat's going on and we're
looking at the ladies, theirbody language.
All right, it's about enoughfor him.
He keeps closing his tab.
We're getting zeros on everytab.
Okay, no big deal.
He comes back.
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He's trying to impress thislady, this other lady who came
from the restaurant.
Get her a drink.
I'm sorry, sir, you reachedyour limit of four.
We can no longer get you adrink.
You can go to the next barthere's plenty of other options.
Yeah, this is what Bailey istelling him.
I'm sorry, you know I can't getyou another and we already
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reached your limit.
The man respond oh, are you forreal On Larry?
On Larry, this ain't no, noracist shit.
Right, you ain't being racist,is it?
Bailey called me down.
He called me down.
Can you let them know that?
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You know I said I'm sorry, bro,it's just a rule that we got.
We've been under the radar, youknow, we're just trying to keep
our job.
And if you know, Bailey he'sthe nicest fucking guy.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
The farthest thing from you.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
One of the most beautiful human beings, one of
the best people I ever met.
One of the best people I evermet Exactly One of the best guys
I've ever met Always does theright thing you know calm head
Grew up in the same neighborhoodas I did.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
So it's like you know .
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I know him yes.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Bailey's good people.
Oh, Larry, this ain't no crazyshit.
I don't know what racist shitis.
I said I'm sorry, bro, thisain't it.
You just got to go somewhereelse and get you a drink, no
problem.
Now that's how that ended.
After he called Bailey racistand all that.
You know Bailey was like red.
You know he was flustered alittle bit.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, and I'm like bro, trust me, I know how that
go.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Don't you know.
Don't let that get to you, bro.
He's another ignorantindividual that don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
He ain't used to being outside, it's just man you
can just tell people are goodand social and say it without
being rude or being an asshole,but it's just some people that
don't know better.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Some people just don't listen until you make them
listen, right?
So, that being said, this iswhere it gets funnier after the
fan for me.
Me and Bailey shake.
We go about it like that I'mshaking the margarita back to
work.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
We got plenty to do.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I said Bailey, this is so funny.
This guy have no clue that,outside his element, he's trying
to get back to Chicago.
I had a conversation with him.
He's trying to get back toChicago.
I had a conversation with him,he's trying to get back to
Chicago.
So I'm just putting contexttools together.
Because of the environment Igrew up in in Mississippi, I
know a lot of stuff that goes onwhen it comes to gang-related
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stuff.
I know a lot of that lingo.
It comes together.
So when they come about, I'mtalking to baby.
I'm like baby he talking aboutsome Aunt Larry.
He don't understand that noneof that game related stuff is
going to help him in thisairport.
There's nobody care.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Most people here don't understand that either.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Exactly, he's talking to Bailey Bailey.
They was going straight overBailey here.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Once I heard the Aunt Larry I was like oh.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
So I'm like Bailey, you never heard, you don't know
who Larry is.
He said, bro, I have no clue.
I said okay.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Well, let me just give you a breakdown.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
It's this guy.
He's one of the known foundersof this gang called the Gangster
Disciples.
He's out of Chicago, where itwas founded at.
Okay, I said um the reason whyI know about it, because the
guys usually you know he got abackground in mississippi, blah,
they blind, so a lot of that goon in my, my neighborhood.
Yeah, you're like.
Really I said bailey forget allthat you ain't never heard rick
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ross.
That's when the light bulb wentoff.
I think I'm beating me.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
He's your best out singing that in the middle of
the ball I'm like bro, that'swho he talking about.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
no, that's larry man.
So from that point forward Iwas like I'm walking, I'm
working in an environment whereit's like so diverse to where
it's like people really don't,people really don't.
People haven't been exposed tothat.
People are completely cluelessto a lot of stuff that go on in
the world.
I'm lucky enough to be in aspot where I can see it all.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yes, At the airport.
You fucking see it all.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Yes, that's one of my favorite things.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
That's a perk of the job I always say and it's's
always diverse, and there'salways something going on, it's
never boring, even if it's slowas shit.
Something crazy bad um, so I'mgonna segue into.
Uh time a young man came up toseat 14 and I just said hey,
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welcome in.
Tried to hand him a menu.
I said hey, welcome in.
Can I grab him a menu?
I said hey, welcome in.
Can I grab you?
Can I get you started withsomething to drink?
He goes um, I don't even wantto talk to you, cracker and I
was like AT.
At, can you handle this please?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I was standing right there and this don't make sense
to why people would approachsomeone that they don't know
like that.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Especially someone.
They want something from.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah Now.
Yeah, this guy.
He just come up to the bar.
Like I said, we doing our job,yeah, just doing our job.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I'm here with Chris.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Chris is helping somebody else, so I take care of
him.
How you doing, man?
What can I get for you?
Ah, water, I just need water.
I can tell by.
Again.
He all hyper about orderingwater, so I just put the menu in
front of him and get him awater.
I walk to the well, make theservice drink by this time.
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Chris, double bed.
How you doing, man?
Oh, that's good.
Can I get a start for you?
He already got me on.
Fuck with you, crackers.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
That's what it was.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Bro.
I heard that, bro, I was soembarrassed.
Why am I embarrassed?
For somebody, I don't know?
Because you're a youngAfrican-American.
That's making me look bad Now.
You ever heard of guilty byassociation?
I grew up in an environmentwhere there's you know, it's the
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elephant in the room.
So here in Texas, when I movedfrom Mississippi to Texas, you
know, I saw a lot more diversity.
It was a culture shock for mebeing here after all that time
and to go to a place like theairport and have that type of
encounter with somebody.
It just let me know how beingignorant is a choice.
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Being ignorant is a choice, bro.
It ain't no explanation for it.
There ain't no explanation forthat.
So, that being said, this youngman got his water, said what he
said to Chris and got up andleft.
After he drank his water.
Bro, there was no point for himeven to be there, in my opinion
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.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Did he tell him I'm good, drink your water and leave
?
Yeah, and then we never sawthis guy again Never, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Another example of people that's not used to
traveling in the airport.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
A lot of these people aren't used to being out of
their house.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
since COVID they're not used to being around people
period.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah, that was one of them, and then I don't remember
if I was working with you Ithink it was or if I was working
with Bailey.
The time there was a guy in awheelchair and I don't recall
exactly how it went down.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
He came back the next day looking for you, I was like
this crazy guy with a back thenext day looking for Chris and I
was like this crazy guy withthe broken leg came in looking
for Chris and he thought I washim.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
So he comes in.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I was on the floor and Chris, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Do you recall that incident?
I?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
do recall that I was on the floor and you and Bailey
were bartending.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yeah, okay, bailey was there.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
He got wheeled up To the chair.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
To the side of the bar where the wheelchair service
part is.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Yeah, yeah, so he just like pushed one chair out
in the wheel where a certainkind of piece of drink.
Of course you know he had onebeer Again.
Theme of the day One beer in ashot.
So you know, like he, just Idon't know what happened to him,
man.
He was just an ignorant youngman.
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It was like he got everythinghe needed.
I don't know who would.
Who was serving him at the time.
I was just a boss member.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I was there, I saw it , but you know, I don't really
recall I believe it was me and Iwent to cut him off and that's
when he was like what are youtalking about?
And that's when I had to callthe police and they found pills
on him.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yes, I do recall that now.
Yeah, I was actually serving onthe floor and the whole
restaurant was like what theystopped what?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
If someone gets loud in there, everyone's going to
hear it.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
That's the number one thing you don't want to do at
the airport is make a scene.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Don't draw attention to yourself.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
If you're doing dumb shit, at least do it smart and
incognito.
I just don't do it at all yeahthere's so many eyes and ears on
you and you're on federalproperty.
That's what I try and remindpeople when they get rowdy.
Remember you are on federalproperty Act nice here Act good
here.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Or I will throw your phone away.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
They kept me out to fight with the old guy with the
cane.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
They're like you know what, I know where I am.
This is not going to be good.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Okay, speaking of crazy people and trying to fight
, why don't you tell us Blake?
Speaker 3 (21:27):
what people?
And trying to fight?
Why don't you tell us, blake,what happened last weekend?
Okay, all right, so it's it'sSaturday morning.
We start pouring alcohol inTexas at 7 am.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Okay, it's about 7, except for on Sundays, 10 to
noon, you have to have food.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Blah, blah, blah, blah this is Saturday, okay, so
it's 7 in the morning.
I, you know, I just got the barset up.
I got all the liquor out.
I'm just trying to figure outwhat I need, making a list,
prepping shit.
Still need to go get somecoffee, haven't even had it yet.
I'm just trying to get stuffset up so I can get through my
day.
And I work alone on Saturday, soit's just me.
It's early in the morning,there's no one in the restaurant
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and this guy comes up and he'sbeing kind of weird, just kind
of seems like an eccentric, kindof weird guy.
And it's 7 in the morning.
So I don't know, people arejust weird, they're tired.
Whatever, I try to be cool toeverybody when I can, keyword
when I can, and anyways, he'stalking about how he wants to
get a margarita.
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I'm just like, hey, man, justgrab a seat.
He hasn't even grabbed a seatyet, he's just standing there
talking.
I'm like, just grab a seat,we'll get you going, man.
And then he wants a margarita.
So I go to the well and startmaking it.
As I'm making it, he wants tostand there and watch and try
and coach me through it.
I said, and I'm fucking times,yeah, exactly Okay, a little
sauce on that Bill.
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I'm like it's going to be greatwhen you get it, don't worry,
and if it's not, we'll getsomething else.
So I get it to him.
He sits at the seat right infront of the well and he's still
just being kind of weird, kindof whispering, talking about
weird stuff.
I don't know what he's weird.
He's not slurring, he doesn'thave bloodshot eyes or anything.
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He's not getting angry.
Yet At one point while I'mtalking to him, he does jokingly
say fuck you to me and I sayMarty that's not what you say to
your bartender if you like tokeep drinking, and he goes, okay
, I'm just kidding, kind ofcools off, and I thought that
was kind of going to be the endof it.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
This is a family restaurant, by the way.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
And so he's still talking to me about some
bullshit.
I don't know what he's talkingabout.
I'm just like nodding my head,yeah, and then he goes.
Well, I'm talking to you, letme get a shot.
I said cool, what do you want?
He goes, don Julio.
I said great, do you want theAñejo or do you want the big boy
, the 1942?
He says I want the 1942.
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I say great, that's a $30 shot.
I like that.
And I say do you want it neator do you want it chilled?
He goes I would like it chilled, great.
So I pour my shot, pour it inmy little measuring thing, pour
it in the thing ice it shake theshit out of it.
He watches me do all thisbecause he's sitting at the seat
right next to the well, he cansee all this happen.
Okay, and as I'm shaking up hisshot, another guy sits about
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five seats down the way.
So I know I got to go greet him.
So I pour that chilled shot, youknow, strain the ice out, put
it in front of my guy, martyhere, and then I go to greet the
next guy.
Sees the shot Doesn't sayanything.
Cool, I assume he's going totake it.
He's got two drinks.
There's nothing else I can dofor him.
I go to greet this next guyAbout ten seconds into it.
You know, hey, how you doing.
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Man, can I get you something todrink?
A beer, bloody Mary?
He goes uh, excuse me, why thefuck would you give this to me?
And I go, marty, I'll be rightwith you.
And so I start.
And so I'm trying to get thisnext time I get a beer order and
I go back and I'm like what'sup, marty, why the fuck would
you give this to me like this?
I go this is exactly what youasked for.
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You wanted a chilled shot of1942.
I wanted this on the fuckingrocks.
I said, marty, we went overthis.
But you know what?
No problem, we're not going todo any more shots.
He doesn't have a sip of it.
I grab it from out front and Isay I'm going to buy this for
you.
I pour it in the sink.
I say we're not doing shotsanymore.
We're good on shots.
He doesn't like that.
He gets a little snippy.
(25:15):
He just yeah, he's not trying.
I go, marty, you are on federalproperty, chill out, man.
I'm trying to be cool here.
And then he says a couple fuckyous to me and I'm like quit.
And then he looks at the otherguy that sat down, my guy Matt,
and he goes fuck you, matt.
And I said you know what that'sit?
He's had about again.
It's probably 7.08 at thispoint.
He's been there three minutes.
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He's probably had two sips outof this Margarita.
I said you know what you tosnatch it out from in front of
him poured in the sink.
I said we're good here.
Marty, you can try your luckanywhere else.
There's plenty of other bars,but we're good here.
And I just say it like that.
I'm not trying to be mean,still, I'm just.
I'm just being blunt.
I'm just saying we're done here, you're good.
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I'm not gonna make him pay foranything.
I'm cutting ties.
I'm like just go about your day, man, you can go anywhere else.
He doesn't't like that.
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.
I say Marty, you see thosepolice officers over there.
So now a lady and a baby hadjust fallen down the escalator
about right when Marty came in.
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So there's a lot going on.
It's just crazy.
It's chaotic, it's 7-0-8.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
They are already on the scene.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
So the police are in the corner.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
They're trying to help this lady and make sure the
baby's good and like waitingfor EMT to come and you know, I
say, marty, you need to leaveagain.
And I go either me or those niceuniformed officers over there
are going to get you out of here, or you can walk yourself out.
Those are your choices.
And he's just talking shit.
(26:45):
And then he's like do I need tocome around?
I say, marty, that's not goingto work out the way you think it
is.
I promise you I will put you ina pretzel.
And that's when I was like youknow what?
Dude, you've got 30 fuckingseconds to leave.
He wants to just keep youyapping.
He just keeps doubling andtripling down.
And I said, you know what?
Okay, so I go out the back ofthe bar.
One of the servers had alreadygot the police, so they wave him
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over and he's like I'm going tosteal your fucking chair.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Shout out to Sammy yes.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
So he tries to pick up the bar stool.
It's this big, heavy fucking,I'm going to steal it.
I say, okay, man, good luckwith that.
He can't even pick it up.
He now he's on the edge of therestaurant talking to the police
.
The police are like get thefuck over here, man, what's
going on?
And he's just like yelling atthem.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
What's your name?
Speaker 3 (27:31):
He's like get away from me, like trying to Heisman
them.
I'm like that's not a good move.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Oh, Marty.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
And they're trying to be cool and they're just trying
to talk to him and figure outwhat's going on.
He, I need my fucking receipt.
Here's the receipt of thatdrink.
I didn't even let you drink,take it.
So they go over there becausethey wanted to make sure he
wasn't over-served.
I mean, he had two sips.
And they're talking to him andtalk to him and I go around to
pick up the bar stool because hefucking slammed it on the
ground.
Cool, and I'm just like.
I'm like Matt, I'm sorry, dude,this is crazy.
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I'm kind of just ignoring it.
He pulls something out of hisbag and starts chugging it while
he's looking at it and I don'tknow what it is.
I'm just trying to separatemyself from the situation.
I'm like they got it handledand then, after I put that
barstool up, I'm walking back tothe bar and some sort of glass
slams into the bar and explodes,which Marty had thrown.
I'm like what the fuck?
I thought he just threw a saltshaker or something.
(28:28):
When I'm sweeping it up later,it's a bottle of fucking brandy
that he pulled out of his bagand he had just fucking sunned
it.
And I'm like what the fuck?
And I only knew this becausethe stem, when I was sweeping it
up for 10 minutes because itwent all over the fucking
restaurant, I hit the bar.
It came within a foot ofhitting Matt.
I said, matt, I'm going to buyyou a beer, dude, I'm sorry.
He's like no, it's fine.
(28:48):
Anyways, the cops come back andget that later.
But I was just like JesusChrist, it's 7.08.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
It's been there for three minutes.
The bar hasn't even been openin ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Yeah, and so he fights the police.
They have just slam him intothe table.
Oh, my pinky, my pinky.
And then he's like there's alady dying over there and you
guys are harassing me.
I'm like, then quit drawingattention to yourself, you
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jackass and just like everyopportunity that he had a chance
to just like chill out and getout, he doubled and tripled down
and yeah, so that was how Istarted my day.
I did not uh need coffee afterthat, but yeah, definitely not
uh-huh, that's a good time it'sa good time.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Everybody else is cool I don't think that guy was
ignorant.
I think he he was just dumb.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
He had a good night the night before.
Apparently, he did.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
And he was enough to go onto the radar and me halfway
not notice it.
But I try to be cool, I try togive anybody one drink, but
anyways.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
And Blake, you're going to post a link to this.
No, I'm not going to post that.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
I would love to, but my manager sent that to me and I
do like my jobs.
Yeah, exactly, I'm sure you canimagine this enough.
I hope I painted enough of apicture, jesus man.
So yeah, I didn't drink anycoffee after that.
That was good.
I thought I was going to haveto whoop some dude's ass at 7 in
the morning.
Alright, just another day atthe airport.
I didn't drink any coffee afterthat.
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That was good.
I thought I was going to haveto whoop some dude's ass at 7 in
the morning.
All right, just another day atthe airport, you know.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
As our busser Ab would say, it's always the first
person, the first guest and thelast guest.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
That's it Every single freaking time 99% of it
in between is cool as shit andloves you and has a great time.
They all get what they need,regardless.
Now they may have something tosay about it, but everybody gets
what they need.
Everybody gets treated the same.
Everybody gets taken care of,but yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Okay, Damn AT.
Thanks for coming on the showtoday.
We really appreciate it.
I hope you enjoyed yourself.
I did.
I enjoyed hearing some of thesestories.
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Peace.
Hey guys, welcome back.
Episode 11,.
Pull Up A Bar Stool.
Welcome back to TFAB.
Tales From An Airport Bar.
I've got my esteemed co-hostBlake.
I'm Chris and this week we haveour co-bartender, our good
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friend and colleague AT.
Welcome to the show.
What's up, man, what's up?
So tell us a little bit aboutyour background.
Where are you from?
Where are you?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
from Well, originally from Mississippi, been living
in the DLW since 2000.
This is home.
You're a Texan.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Definitely Okay.
Oh yeah, been here long enough.
You're like me, got here asquick as you could Never left.
So how did you get into workinginto the airport?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Tell us a little bit about that.
First time I ever worked in theairport was probably 2007.
Me and a good friend of mine,we both applied to work at HMSz.
We ended up being baristas atStarbucks and that was my first
job there.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
That was short-lived, you know son, I remember, yeah,
we've talked about those stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, that was short-lived, I can imagine for
that pay.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Dealing with that.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, you know, I was young though.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, you're like let's just see it was a job.
I was young, though In yourlife, let's just see, it was a
job.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I was in high school, you went to the airport.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
That's cool.
Let's see what's up.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
My friend.
He stayed there the whole timeafter I left, which was over 10
plus years.
After that, I was re-invited togo start serving tables at the
restaurant.
That's how I ended up workingat Cantina.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Okay so.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
What were your first thoughts the first week you
started doing this?
Yeah, was it bad?
And different.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
You know, coming from street side serving I had been
working, I had been working atAHA serving overnight.
That's a whole different crowdright there.
They're all restaurants whenthey get to use, dealing with a
whole bunch of different typesof people.
You know, drunks outside of itfor small tips, if not, you know
.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Sorry, I spent it all at the bar.
If you get a, tip at all.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
So you know, versus going to the airport, I thought
it was a little bit morestructured.
I was doing the same work, ifnot less work, for more money.
That was all I needed to see.
This will work, probably lesshours.
Definitely less hours, lesswork, more money.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
No brainer.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
We about.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
You mentioned some crazy run-ins, this and that no
brainer.
So you mentioned some crazy runins, this and that.
I was talking with one of ourother co-bartenders this morning
and we'll have him on soonenough.
Shout out to our boy, bailey,but so tell me about a time a
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crippled old man tried to fightyou.
What's good, aj.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I don't know if he tried to fight me or if he had
some type of energy abouthimself, but he didn't want that
.
I didn't want that either,because I don't want to be going
to jail for fighting ahandicapped.
You know they take that serious.
That's not good.
I was taught to respect myelderly.
But he come to the bar, him andhis wife I'm assuming they had
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been elsewhere drinking becausehe was kind of chill.
He came in and he got hisMichelob Ultra, she got her
seltzer water.
Get him another drink.
He's throwing it back All of asudden.
Me and Bailey, we go about ourday.
All you hear is stop it, likefrom behind us.
(04:21):
I'm looking around.
I don't see anything that'snoticeable.
I guess they're trying to,they're arguing amongst
themselves, but you know We'veseen that before.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
So I stay out of their business Traveling with a
couple is stressful.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
All I know is three beers later his wife gets up and
leaves the restaurant and heasked for another one.
So I give him what he asked for.
He also asked for another shot.
He asked for a shot to go withthat last beer and I told him
(05:00):
about.
You know, the four-drink limitCan't have more than four.
I apologize, you know, itdefinitely don't help me.
The four drink limit Can't havemore than four.
I apologize, it definitelydon't help me but it helps me.
It's just a law, I'm just doingmy job.
So you know, the typical guylike him of his age, the elderly
guy that is told what he can'thave, he responded like a child,
(05:22):
he got angry, tells me don'thave he responded like a child.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
He got angry, tells me.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Don't you be like that.
You don't tell me what to.
I'm sorry, sir, I'm going totake that shot from you.
I grab the drink and I throw itaway.
You don't need it.
I'll resell it.
That's on me, okay, he's on me,okay.
He gives his card.
Once he gets his card, I swipehim and charge him.
(05:52):
He's still rowdy, still talkingcrazy.
He's like don't you be dirty,don't you be low down?
I'm like, excuse me, sir.
He's like what's wrong?
You want to talk down?
I'm like, excuse me, sir,what's wrong?
You want to talk?
I said actually, sir, I don'twant to talk, I'm done talking,
that's it.
(06:15):
But I would like to keep my job,so I'm going to go get the
manager.
I can't tell when you can talkto him if you want to talk.
I walk out of the bar and he'ssitting on seat four or five.
He raises up as if he was readyto get ready to fight or
something.
And I look and I I like to see,was him balancing himself on a
cane.
Bro, I, I felt so stupid.
(06:36):
I felt so stupid for the factthat I let a guy that ain't even
physically fit get me out mycharacter, as if he wanted to
fight.
I would walk to the back.
He like yeah, what's up, littleman, what you want to do,
little man, let's talk.
Bro, I don't want to talk toyou.
(06:58):
I will come slap you, but thisain't the time or the place, and
I know better than that Becausewe are at the airport and my
background is clean.
I would like to keep it thatway.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
This is somebody else's job to handle it.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Now we've got to this point, they get up.
At this point I go get themanager, they get up.
They have a word with him.
He's getting up, he's leavinganyway and they just, you know,
from that point forward I sawhim hobbling and he was one too
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many.
It was one too many and he wasdrinking Ultra.
Just put that out there.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Normally, when someone's drinking Ultra, you're
like, alright, we're not goingto get that rowdy.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yeah, you know, but yeah, that was that he felt
tough.
We're not gonna get that rowdy,yeah, but yeah that was dead.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
He felt.
He felt tough.
You know it happens time andagain um jesus uh, speaking of
tough guys, uh, um, we've hadall kinds of incidents.
Bailey was telling me alsoabout a time somebody called him
(08:10):
a cracker.
Not to be confused with acouple of times we're going to
talk about here in a second thatI've been called a cracker.
Do you recall this one aboutBailey, though?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I definitely do.
I hear that word every day.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
And I don't know why that's been so predominant of a
word lately.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
It's just, I don't know, it's just another term.
People of ignorance useWhatever, but that was funny
after the fact.
It was definitely funny afterthe fact and this is why.
So the guy come in, he has it'slike the middle of December, he
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has some like a purple t-shirt,he has some earphones, like
some earmuffs, he's bald-headed,he got tattoos and he got
piercings on his eyebrows, onhis nose, says you know somebody
that's going to alert you justoff appearance.
And I'm not judging, it's just,it's just human nature.
That being said, he come in thebar, he get his drink, he's
(09:18):
chilling.
You can always tell whensomebody not used to traveling,
not used to being in the airport, and this is just one of those
cases and it's that time of year, it's Christmas time, it's
Christmas holiday.
People are traveling Guy comesin, he's all dramatic about
missing his flight because hewas delayed from his earlier
flight.
Of course you know that'stypical in the airport.
Come in and get his beer, drink, chips and salsa.
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Also order a shot.
I don't know what it is aboutthe combination of a beer and a
shot.
It just brings something out ofpeople, Yep.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
It's probably something they're not normally
doing A lot of them too.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
All right.
So this guy, he's alreadydramatic about how he's, you
know, late for his plane.
Oh man, I don't know what I'mgoing to do.
He keeps getting all thenotifications from American
Airlines.
They keep pushing his flightbag.
All right, sir, can I getanother one?
Can I get another one?
Okay, this is his third beer.
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He proceeds to get up and go tothis lady's table with her
daughter younger daughter shehad to be at least 12 years or
younger and he starts to flirtwith her.
Wow, Jesus Christ, here we go.
The lady runs him away and I'mlooking.
I'm like man, do you see thatguy?
He's over here tripping, hemoving, as if we are in a
(10:37):
nightclub.
But this is not that type ofenvironment where you have to be
doing that, and it's definitelynot the age range to be doing
that, definitely Club Cantina.
He leaves her table and ofcourse you know we got those
business travelers, group ofyoung women, group of women
traveling together for work.
There was about four of them atthe table.
(10:57):
They had six chairs pulled up,one was empty.
He just invites himself totheir table, sit down, start a
conversation.
They're laughing and giggling.
Of course they're brushing themoff.
He proceeds to buy them a drink.
He only bought two drinks outof four.
He keeps coming to the bar.
He comes from their table tothe bar, like let me get another
(11:19):
one.
Let me get another one.
Okay, sir, now we're noticingwhat's going on and we're
looking at the ladies, theirbody language.
All right, it's about enoughfor him.
He keeps closing his tab.
We're getting zeros on everytab.
Okay, no big deal.
He comes back.
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He's trying to impress thislady, this other lady who came
from the restaurant.
Get her a drink.
I'm sorry, sir, you reachedyour limit of four.
We can no longer get you adrink.
You can go to the next barthere's plenty of other options.
Yeah, this is what Bailey istelling him.
I'm sorry, you know I can't getyou another and we already
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reached your limit.
The man respond oh, are you forreal On Larry?
On Larry, this ain't no, noracist shit.
Right, you ain't being racist,is it?
Bailey called me down.
He called me down.
Can you let them know that?
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You know I said I'm sorry, bro,it's just a rule that we got.
We've been under the radar, youknow, we're just trying to keep
our job.
And if you know, Bailey he'sthe nicest fucking guy.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
The farthest thing from you.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
One of the most beautiful human beings, one of
the best people I ever met.
One of the best people I evermet Exactly One of the best guys
I've ever met Always does theright thing you know calm head
Grew up in the same neighborhoodas I did.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
So it's like you know .
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I know him yes.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Bailey's good people.
Oh, Larry, this ain't no crazyshit.
I don't know what racist shitis.
I said I'm sorry, bro, thisain't it.
You just got to go somewhereelse and get you a drink, no
problem.
Now that's how that ended.
After he called Bailey racistand all that.
You know Bailey was like red.
You know he was flustered alittle bit.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, and I'm like bro, trust me, I know how that
go.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Don't you know.
Don't let that get to you, bro.
He's another ignorantindividual that don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
He ain't used to being outside, it's just man you
can just tell people are goodand social and say it without
being rude or being an asshole,but it's just some people that
don't know better.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Some people just don't listen until you make them
listen, right?
So, that being said, this iswhere it gets funnier after the
fan for me.
Me and Bailey shake.
We go about it like that I'mshaking the margarita back to
work.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
We got plenty to do.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I said Bailey, this is so funny.
This guy have no clue that,outside his element, he's trying
to get back to Chicago.
I had a conversation with him.
He's trying to get back toChicago.
I had a conversation with him,he's trying to get back to
Chicago.
So I'm just putting contexttools together.
Because of the environment Igrew up in in Mississippi, I
know a lot of stuff that goes onwhen it comes to gang-related
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stuff.
I know a lot of that lingo.
It comes together.
So when they come about, I'mtalking to baby.
I'm like baby he talking aboutsome Aunt Larry.
He don't understand that noneof that game related stuff is
going to help him in thisairport.
There's nobody care.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Most people here don't understand that either.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Exactly, he's talking to Bailey Bailey.
They was going straight overBailey here.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Once I heard the Aunt Larry I was like oh.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
So I'm like Bailey, you never heard, you don't know
who Larry is.
He said, bro, I have no clue.
I said okay.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Well, let me just give you a breakdown.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
It's this guy.
He's one of the known foundersof this gang called the Gangster
Disciples.
He's out of Chicago, where itwas founded at.
Okay, I said um the reason whyI know about it, because the
guys usually you know he got abackground in mississippi, blah,
they blind, so a lot of that goon in my, my neighborhood.
Yeah, you're like.
Really I said bailey forget allthat you ain't never heard rick
(15:14):
ross.
That's when the light bulb wentoff.
I think I'm beating me.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
He's your best out singing that in the middle of
the ball I'm like bro, that'swho he talking about.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
no, that's larry man.
So from that point forward Iwas like I'm walking, I'm
working in an environment whereit's like so diverse to where
it's like people really don't,people really don't.
People haven't been exposed tothat.
People are completely cluelessto a lot of stuff that go on in
the world.
I'm lucky enough to be in aspot where I can see it all.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yes, At the airport.
You fucking see it all.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Yes, that's one of my favorite things.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
That's a perk of the job I always say and it's's
always diverse, and there'salways something going on, it's
never boring, even if it's slowas shit.
Something crazy bad um, so I'mgonna segue into.
Uh time a young man came up toseat 14 and I just said hey,
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welcome in.
Tried to hand him a menu.
I said hey, welcome in.
Can I grab him a menu?
I said hey, welcome in.
Can I grab you?
Can I get you started withsomething to drink?
He goes um, I don't even wantto talk to you, cracker and I
was like AT.
At, can you handle this please?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I was standing right there and this don't make sense
to why people would approachsomeone that they don't know
like that.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Especially someone.
They want something from.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah Now.
Yeah, this guy.
He just come up to the bar.
Like I said, we doing our job,yeah, just doing our job.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I'm here with Chris.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Chris is helping somebody else, so I take care of
him.
How you doing, man?
What can I get for you?
Ah, water, I just need water.
I can tell by.
Again.
He all hyper about orderingwater, so I just put the menu in
front of him and get him awater.
I walk to the well, make theservice drink by this time.
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Chris, double bed.
How you doing, man?
Oh, that's good.
Can I get a start for you?
He already got me on.
Fuck with you, crackers.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
That's what it was.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Bro.
I heard that, bro, I was soembarrassed.
Why am I embarrassed?
For somebody, I don't know?
Because you're a youngAfrican-American.
That's making me look bad Now.
You ever heard of guilty byassociation?
I grew up in an environmentwhere there's you know, it's the
(17:52):
elephant in the room.
So here in Texas, when I movedfrom Mississippi to Texas, you
know, I saw a lot more diversity.
It was a culture shock for mebeing here after all that time
and to go to a place like theairport and have that type of
encounter with somebody.
It just let me know how beingignorant is a choice.
(18:16):
Being ignorant is a choice, bro.
It ain't no explanation for it.
There ain't no explanation forthat.
So, that being said, this youngman got his water, said what he
said to Chris and got up andleft.
After he drank his water.
Bro, there was no point for himeven to be there, in my opinion
(18:40):
.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Did he tell him I'm good, drink your water and leave
?
Yeah, and then we never sawthis guy again Never, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Another example of people that's not used to
traveling in the airport.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
A lot of these people aren't used to being out of
their house.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
since COVID they're not used to being around people
period.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah, that was one of them, and then I don't remember
if I was working with you Ithink it was or if I was working
with Bailey.
The time there was a guy in awheelchair and I don't recall
exactly how it went down.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
He came back the next day looking for you, I was like
this crazy guy with a back thenext day looking for Chris and I
was like this crazy guy withthe broken leg came in looking
for Chris and he thought I washim.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
So he comes in.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I was on the floor and Chris, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Do you recall that incident?
I?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
do recall that I was on the floor and you and Bailey
were bartending.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yeah, okay, bailey was there.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
He got wheeled up To the chair.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
To the side of the bar where the wheelchair service
part is.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Yeah, yeah, so he just like pushed one chair out
in the wheel where a certainkind of piece of drink.
Of course you know he had onebeer Again.
Theme of the day One beer in ashot.
So you know, like he, just Idon't know what happened to him,
man.
He was just an ignorant youngman.
(20:08):
It was like he got everythinghe needed.
I don't know who would.
Who was serving him at the time.
I was just a boss member.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I was there, I saw it , but you know, I don't really
recall I believe it was me and Iwent to cut him off and that's
when he was like what are youtalking about?
And that's when I had to callthe police and they found pills
on him.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yes, I do recall that now.
Yeah, I was actually serving onthe floor and the whole
restaurant was like what theystopped what?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
If someone gets loud in there, everyone's going to
hear it.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
That's the number one thing you don't want to do at
the airport is make a scene.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Don't draw attention to yourself.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
If you're doing dumb shit, at least do it smart and
incognito.
I just don't do it at all yeahthere's so many eyes and ears on
you and you're on federalproperty.
That's what I try and remindpeople when they get rowdy.
Remember you are on federalproperty Act nice here Act good
here.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Or I will throw your phone away.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
They kept me out to fight with the old guy with the
cane.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
They're like you know what, I know where I am.
This is not going to be good.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Okay, speaking of crazy people and trying to fight
, why don't you tell us Blake?
Speaker 3 (21:27):
what people?
And trying to fight?
Why don't you tell us, blake,what happened last weekend?
Okay, all right, so it's it'sSaturday morning.
We start pouring alcohol inTexas at 7 am.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Okay, it's about 7, except for on Sundays, 10 to
noon, you have to have food.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Blah, blah, blah, blah this is Saturday, okay, so
it's 7 in the morning.
I, you know, I just got the barset up.
I got all the liquor out.
I'm just trying to figure outwhat I need, making a list,
prepping shit.
Still need to go get somecoffee, haven't even had it yet.
I'm just trying to get stuffset up so I can get through my
day.
And I work alone on Saturday, soit's just me.
It's early in the morning,there's no one in the restaurant
(22:03):
and this guy comes up and he'sbeing kind of weird, just kind
of seems like an eccentric, kindof weird guy.
And it's 7 in the morning.
So I don't know, people arejust weird, they're tired.
Whatever, I try to be cool toeverybody when I can, keyword
when I can, and anyways, he'stalking about how he wants to
get a margarita.
(22:23):
I'm just like, hey, man, justgrab a seat.
He hasn't even grabbed a seatyet, he's just standing there
talking.
I'm like, just grab a seat,we'll get you going, man.
And then he wants a margarita.
So I go to the well and startmaking it.
As I'm making it, he wants tostand there and watch and try
and coach me through it.
I said, and I'm fucking times,yeah, exactly Okay, a little
sauce on that Bill.
(22:47):
I'm like it's going to be greatwhen you get it, don't worry,
and if it's not, we'll getsomething else.
So I get it to him.
He sits at the seat right infront of the well and he's still
just being kind of weird, kindof whispering, talking about
weird stuff.
I don't know what he's weird.
He's not slurring, he doesn'thave bloodshot eyes or anything.
(23:10):
He's not getting angry.
Yet At one point while I'mtalking to him, he does jokingly
say fuck you to me and I sayMarty that's not what you say to
your bartender if you like tokeep drinking, and he goes, okay
, I'm just kidding, kind ofcools off, and I thought that
was kind of going to be the endof it.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
This is a family restaurant, by the way.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
And so he's still talking to me about some
bullshit.
I don't know what he's talkingabout.
I'm just like nodding my head,yeah, and then he goes.
Well, I'm talking to you, letme get a shot.
I said cool, what do you want?
He goes, don Julio.
I said great, do you want theAñejo or do you want the big boy
, the 1942?
He says I want the 1942.
(23:47):
I say great, that's a $30 shot.
I like that.
And I say do you want it neator do you want it chilled?
He goes I would like it chilled, great.
So I pour my shot, pour it inmy little measuring thing, pour
it in the thing ice it shake theshit out of it.
He watches me do all thisbecause he's sitting at the seat
right next to the well, he cansee all this happen.
Okay, and as I'm shaking up hisshot, another guy sits about
(24:12):
five seats down the way.
So I know I got to go greet him.
So I pour that chilled shot, youknow, strain the ice out, put
it in front of my guy, martyhere, and then I go to greet the
next guy.
Sees the shot Doesn't sayanything.
Cool, I assume he's going totake it.
He's got two drinks.
There's nothing else I can dofor him.
I go to greet this next guyAbout ten seconds into it.
You know, hey, how you doing.
(24:33):
Man, can I get you something todrink?
A beer, bloody Mary?
He goes uh, excuse me, why thefuck would you give this to me?
And I go, marty, I'll be rightwith you.
And so I start.
And so I'm trying to get thisnext time I get a beer order and
I go back and I'm like what'sup, marty, why the fuck would
you give this to me like this?
I go this is exactly what youasked for.
(24:55):
You wanted a chilled shot of1942.
I wanted this on the fuckingrocks.
I said, marty, we went overthis.
But you know what?
No problem, we're not going todo any more shots.
He doesn't have a sip of it.
I grab it from out front and Isay I'm going to buy this for
you.
I pour it in the sink.
I say we're not doing shotsanymore.
We're good on shots.
He doesn't like that.
He gets a little snippy.
(25:15):
He just yeah, he's not trying.
I go, marty, you are on federalproperty, chill out, man.
I'm trying to be cool here.
And then he says a couple fuckyous to me and I'm like quit.
And then he looks at the otherguy that sat down, my guy Matt,
and he goes fuck you, matt.
And I said you know what that'sit?
He's had about again.
It's probably 7.08 at thispoint.
He's been there three minutes.
(25:36):
He's probably had two sips outof this Margarita.
I said you know what you tosnatch it out from in front of
him poured in the sink.
I said we're good here.
Marty, you can try your luckanywhere else.
There's plenty of other bars,but we're good here.
And I just say it like that.
I'm not trying to be mean,still, I'm just.
I'm just being blunt.
I'm just saying we're done here, you're good.
(25:57):
I'm not gonna make him pay foranything.
I'm cutting ties.
I'm like just go about your day, man, you can go anywhere else.
He doesn't't like that.
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.
I say Marty, you see thosepolice officers over there.
So now a lady and a baby hadjust fallen down the escalator
about right when Marty came in.
(26:17):
So there's a lot going on.
It's just crazy.
It's chaotic, it's 7-0-8.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
They are already on the scene.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
So the police are in the corner.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
They're trying to help this lady and make sure the
baby's good and like waitingfor EMT to come and you know, I
say, marty, you need to leaveagain.
And I go either me or those niceuniformed officers over there
are going to get you out of here, or you can walk yourself out.
Those are your choices.
And he's just talking shit.
(26:45):
And then he's like do I need tocome around?
I say, marty, that's not goingto work out the way you think it
is.
I promise you I will put you ina pretzel.
And that's when I was like youknow what?
Dude, you've got 30 fuckingseconds to leave.
He wants to just keep youyapping.
He just keeps doubling andtripling down.
And I said, you know what?
Okay, so I go out the back ofthe bar.
One of the servers had alreadygot the police, so they wave him
(27:08):
over and he's like I'm going tosteal your fucking chair.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Shout out to Sammy yes.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
So he tries to pick up the bar stool.
It's this big, heavy fucking,I'm going to steal it.
I say, okay, man, good luckwith that.
He can't even pick it up.
He now he's on the edge of therestaurant talking to the police
.
The police are like get thefuck over here, man, what's
going on?
And he's just like yelling atthem.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
What's your name?
Speaker 3 (27:31):
He's like get away from me, like trying to Heisman
them.
I'm like that's not a good move.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Oh, Marty.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
And they're trying to be cool and they're just trying
to talk to him and figure outwhat's going on.
He, I need my fucking receipt.
Here's the receipt of thatdrink.
I didn't even let you drink,take it.
So they go over there becausethey wanted to make sure he
wasn't over-served.
I mean, he had two sips.
And they're talking to him andtalk to him and I go around to
pick up the bar stool because hefucking slammed it on the
ground.
Cool, and I'm just like.
I'm like Matt, I'm sorry, dude,this is crazy.
(28:07):
I'm kind of just ignoring it.
He pulls something out of hisbag and starts chugging it while
he's looking at it and I don'tknow what it is.
I'm just trying to separatemyself from the situation.
I'm like they got it handledand then, after I put that
barstool up, I'm walking back tothe bar and some sort of glass
slams into the bar and explodes,which Marty had thrown.
I'm like what the fuck?
I thought he just threw a saltshaker or something.
(28:28):
When I'm sweeping it up later,it's a bottle of fucking brandy
that he pulled out of his bagand he had just fucking sunned
it.
And I'm like what the fuck?
And I only knew this becausethe stem, when I was sweeping it
up for 10 minutes because itwent all over the fucking
restaurant, I hit the bar.
It came within a foot ofhitting Matt.
I said, matt, I'm going to buyyou a beer, dude, I'm sorry.
He's like no, it's fine.
(28:48):
Anyways, the cops come back andget that later.
But I was just like JesusChrist, it's 7.08.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
It's been there for three minutes.
The bar hasn't even been openin ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Yeah, and so he fights the police.
They have just slam him intothe table.
Oh, my pinky, my pinky.
And then he's like there's alady dying over there and you
guys are harassing me.
I'm like, then quit drawingattention to yourself, you
(29:20):
jackass and just like everyopportunity that he had a chance
to just like chill out and getout, he doubled and tripled down
and yeah, so that was how Istarted my day.
I did not uh need coffee afterthat, but yeah, definitely not
uh-huh, that's a good time it'sa good time.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Everybody else is cool I don't think that guy was
ignorant.
I think he he was just dumb.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
He had a good night the night before.
Apparently, he did.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
And he was enough to go onto the radar and me halfway
not notice it.
But I try to be cool, I try togive anybody one drink, but
anyways.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
And Blake, you're going to post a link to this.
No, I'm not going to post that.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
I would love to, but my manager sent that to me and I
do like my jobs.
Yeah, exactly, I'm sure you canimagine this enough.
I hope I painted enough of apicture, jesus man.
So yeah, I didn't drink anycoffee after that.
That was good.
I thought I was going to haveto whoop some dude's ass at 7 in
the morning.
Alright, just another day atthe airport.
I didn't drink any coffee afterthat.
(30:26):
That was good.
I thought I was going to haveto whoop some dude's ass at 7 in
the morning.
All right, just another day atthe airport, you know.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
As our busser Ab would say, it's always the first
person, the first guest and thelast guest.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
That's it Every single freaking time 99% of it
in between is cool as shit andloves you and has a great time.
They all get what they need,regardless.
Now they may have something tosay about it, but everybody gets
what they need.
Everybody gets treated the same.
Everybody gets taken care of,but yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Okay, Damn AT.
Thanks for coming on the showtoday.
We really appreciate it.
I hope you enjoyed yourself.
I did.
I enjoyed hearing some of thesestories.
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(31:22):
from.
We're recording here, so comeget some pizza at the Big Apple.
And again, I got to plug theBedford Snowball.
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Finally, Kevin, over there atthe Bedford Snowball.
I heard they're working on somebarbecue over there.
(31:42):
I'm totally down to try that.
Kevin's cooking it on now.
Guys, thanks for down to trythat.
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