February 28, 2019 • 35 mins
This week's show we hear tales from two people that have been roofied. 1st, Mike talks about his strange and insane journey of three friends who all got roofied on the same night. THEN Jess is back to talk about the thing that people often question when they leave an unattended beverage, "Did someone do something to my drink?"
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Straw Hut Media.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hey folks, I'm Jesse Wood and this is the podcast
Stiff from straw Hut Media. This is a podcast that
asked questions about the difficult aspects of the service industry.
This episode finds some of our friends put in a
tricky situation while either trying to blow off some steam
or have a good time out and about with some friends,
(00:24):
they ended up roofied. Have you or anyone you know
ever been roofied?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
You know, sometimes I'll leave my drink behind and I'm
always like, don't roofye me, but if you do, let
me know so I can have a really good time.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
It sounds like you're fishing for No, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
It's just a way to deal with my PTSD from
actually being rufied.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Oh. This week's show, I'm joined by Michael, who, after
a successful catering shift, went out to a bar with
two of his coworkers to wind down. Unfortunately, things wound
up for all three of them. Then Jess returns and
tells a story about leaving a drink unattended. You may
be able to guess where this one's headed this Right
after the break in this story, Mike tells us an
(01:06):
evening out with two buddies. After one incident, we are
left with three very different terrible stories. So like one
of the like I've done every almost every possible job
in the service and especially like in the food and
beverage I mean talking. I started my career at Chuck
E Cheese. Oh wow, jealous much fun, opened a restaurant
when it opened, Lego land Ooh credentials. But you know,
(01:28):
I've been like a waiter and a bartender and a
bar back. One of the few worlds I never got
into was catering, and I know that's like a little
different of a beast and Mike, you have some catering.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yeah, definitely, And that's something I kind of want to pursue,
like on my own as well, and like open up
like the catering business on this site.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
It seems very lucrat It's a super smart idea. That's
why it's been around forever. I get it. It's just
something I never got a chance to do, and I
sure the money is great.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yeah. Or a food truck, because I think that'd be
something really fucking cool.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I think the food truck things starting to slow down,
like it was huge about five years ago, and I
think it's it's like anything it's self correct, like it's
a pendulum, you know what I mean, where it's there's
not much and then it goes way overboard, and I
think people get somewhat burned out. But all the ones
that are solid are the ones that are sticking around,
so they got assent.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
But you've got to have something that people really crave too,
man like crack, you know, they blew up in the
eighties and you.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Know, yeah, when I was working at Port Lost Abbey,
we had to have food trucks because we can't serve food,
and there were certain ones that catered, Like we had
a Polish truck, which is awesome because you can't find
good Polish food very easily in San Diego let alone,
like la. I mean, you can find a million Indian
spots and million taigh spots, but Polish or Eastern European
(02:38):
foods that had to come by. So people were psyched
on that truck because I can't.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Say fit a niche you know, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, So you were catering, h.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah, So I actually worked at this is it cool
to say companies names? Try to keep those? Yeah, So
I was working at this company called Ocho Mexican Grilled
downtown La on a Third and Grand across from the Moca,
which is a great restaurant by the way, I and
I always give credit to all the restaurants I've worked
at because I try to work at restaurants where I
like their food as well, you know, because I wouldn't
want to work in an establishment where I wouldn't want
(03:07):
to sell, you know, I wouldn't want to eat what
I'm selling, you.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Know I did. I did a stinted Applebee's. I'm not
proud of it.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Heye, I did want it. Chili's math I feel here.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Chili's is a little is a little step up. I mean,
they're at least Sprinker. But Applebee's everything is either fried,
grilled or microwaved.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
That's the only preparation anyway. Yeah, that's a digress. We
digress exactly. Back to the catering thing. Yeah, I worked
at this company called Oacho Mexican Grill downtown and they
have a few locations. But uh, this was probably five
or six years ago, so we were pretty big in
the like corporate industry there. So what we would do
we'd cold call companies. We would ask them if they've
ever eaten with us before, so on and so forth,
(03:47):
and then we'd snag them. We'd bring in like a
burrito tray or little platters they could try it out.
They say, yeah, come on in.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
It's the oldular mentality exactly.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Yeah, that's pretty much how it's called the comeback hook
line and sinking. Get them. We set them up with
the Day in the Streets, you know these things exactly. Man. Yeah,
so they get the taste and they want it. And
you know, we ended up working this event one night,
and it was a quick little thing. You know, they
had three of us. It was me, my homie Will
and I forget this other kid's name it he just
recently started within He was there maybe thirty days or so,
(04:18):
so we had him tag along with us, and you know,
we button up our little nice white shirts, put her
ties on and stuff. One of us had to bartend,
which was my monkey suit exactly, the old monkey suit
pressed apron. You know, we were rolling our carts down
to I think it was like KPMG or something like that.
So we're serving all these people really easy, like making
(04:38):
a pretty pretty high class clientel. The entire I mean
they were high class and the status of like financial status.
They made good money. But like they were coming up
like let me get a margarita, let me get a
vodka and cranberry, like the really simplistic drinks. It wasn't
like muddling cherries and sugar for old fashions anything like that. Man.
So it's really easy, by the way, because I'm not
a bartender by any means.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I know you're not because you just said mud the cherry. Yeah,
there's no cherries in an old fashion, Okay, you don't
muddle them. Oh it breaks my heart. Like if you
go to like a corporate restaurant and order an old fashion, yeah,
they will take and they will muddle, like the orange
orange slice and those crappy, radioactive, shitty Marchiano cherries, yeah,
the good ones, not the lucados or whatever, and they'll
(05:21):
muddle those things. And then like you're ruining the bourbon.
You're killing me. Yeah, sorry, nerd, I'm here when it
comes to beer and whiskey, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
I'm sorry you man, but on it so, so it
was really easy for me on that sense. And we
worked for like two hours. We you know, we got
them drunk. We drink behind the bar, you know, stealing
the little booze here and there, and then afterwards we
all got tipped out very well. You know for that
night it was like two hours of work. So we
we each made two to three hundred dollars each. We
decided to go down to a local bar downtown, down
(05:51):
and out, and we had like two to three drinks. Man,
we sell the places where you know they're a diap
bar by the name, Well, I mean you walk inside
the establish and they've revamped it. Gentrification is ruined a
lot of things, and they ruined this bar. In my opinion,
there's a really good bar.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
And uh it's like out in the cuts of Ocean
Side meeting out by Airport Road. It's kind of like
where there's a bunch of junk yards and like a
lot of bikers are hanging on there. It's kind of
a biker bar. Best name though, Okay, it's one more
that's it.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Oh nice, clever like that nice.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Pretty much every other time I went there witness some
sort of fight.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
It's interesting, Yeah, I mean that raw me sometimes.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, it's one of those places where if you order
like a martini, they'll make you one. But if you
try it again, No, you get you get.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Some patricks with your drink.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
That's cool, especially if you're a dude. There's gonna be
a couple of F bombs dropped, and that's the F
bomb that's followed by an aya. So it's interesting. But yeah,
so you're you're catering this event, You're in your monkey suits,
you're pushing the carts. These are pretty easygoing people that
are pretty fleshed with cash.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Yeah, absolutely, man, you know, I mean that's a good gig, right.
The conversations we're lacking, you know, because we just come
from two different worlds. But you know, it's cool, like
we we intermingled. We put a smile on our face.
We made everyone happy, and that's what it's about.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
And they weren't like treating you like the help.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
No exactly. They were wanting to converse, sate and asked
what type of movies and music I like, which they
probably didn't understand what I was talking about when it
came to my musical taste because I'm kind of a weirdo.
I guess in a sense, that's why.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
You'd be surprised some people.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Yeah, yeah, I mean you find those you misread and
you're like, exactly, you're right, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You know who they are too.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, those pleasant surprises. I did not pick you with
the boat tie. It was liking this band. Yeah all right, cool.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Yeah, but it was really easy. You know, we we
had pre prepared everything at the restaurant, you know, we
did I think that night we did skewers and when
we set up with the Shapers, it was like a
burrito set up. We had platters as well, so they
would come through. We'd serve them with their picta guyoh,
you know, corn salce, so on and so forth to
hook it up. They had. They had a good time,
you know, they had their drinks, you know, they socialized,
they danced a little flour it. We had a good time.
(08:01):
So nothing went wrong, Yeah, nothing went wrong. It went great, man,
And we we made a good amount of tips off
that they tipped very generously. It was great. We enjoyed that.
We rushed all the dirty pans back to the restaurant
because we were ready to have it and us get
out of here exactly. And then the owner we called him,
said hey man, what do you want us to do
with all this ship? And he was like dude, just
leave it there. You guys can come in and watch
(08:22):
it early in the morning. We were like, fucking sold,
so you are safe. Yeah, that was That was a
fucking point there. So we did that, man, and we
threw our shirts in our backpacks, you know, threw our
t shirts on. We had it down the street, pressing exactly,
so you know, we each had a couple hundred extra
in our pockets. We went down to the bar at
this time. Like I said, gentrifications ruined a lot of things,
(08:43):
but this bar was the ship back then. Very dirty,
almost had that vomit like you know, alcohol mixed smell
warm wood. That weird. Yeah yeah, and like I mean,
bar musk. Their walls have I guess all the Hollywood
stars mugshots all over it. So what type of war is?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Have you ever seen the Bowie mug shot?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
They have it on the wall there. Yeah, Robert Downey, junr.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Ever looks beautiful in that mugshot. I would look as
good a photo as David Bowie looks in that mug shot.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
And it is not surprising.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Glorious moon age daydream.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
But anyway, Yeah, we were there, man, and I remember
specifically us having no more than and I remember we
each had a drink each with each other, so like
it was like we shot. We started with a shot
of whiskey, and it was probably you always do, yeah, exactly,
shot a whiskey a beer. I mean it was.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Probably call it, I call it prime and the pump.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Yeah, yeah, exact, prime it, you know, get the juices
flowing a little, you know, inside the sweatboard and yeah,
real quick, yeah we we we shoot the whiskey man
and we have a beer. We might have had another
shot of whiskey. But in somewhere in between that it
might have been because these were pint glasses, and you know,
as this is just a thing that you do at
a bar. I don't know, some people may know, some
(09:51):
people might not know. You take your coaster and you
put it on top of your pint glass when you
go out to smoke a cigarette, because in California, can
the bartender or the bar back that you're coming coming
right drink exactly? So we did that, and somewhere in
between being on the patio outside and smoking coming back in,
this must have happened because well, and then I'm getting
to this. This is a fucking wild man. We all
(10:14):
we all ended up blacking out at some point in
our day. And I'll go into each of our stories.
I can tell you more of mine because I wasn't
with the other two individuals. But we had that drink,
which was like the second maybe third one, it had
to be the second, and we took another shot of whiskey,
and we might have pounded another beer before we left.
So you're talking maybe tops four drinks, tops, two shots,
two beers and that's nothing, and we had maybe one
(10:36):
or two.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
You guys aren't amateur, no, yeah, yeah, your twenty first
birthday exactly.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
You know, this was five six years ago. I was
twenty six, twenty seven somewhere around that, so I you know,
I had a good, solid decade long experience, exactly. Yeah.
So you know at that point I should have just
been getting started, and I felt as if I was
until so my buddy Will he decides to leave Ripe
for us, and he ends up getting in a cab
(11:02):
and I'll get to his story a little after this.
What had happened with him is what he said. But
me and the new kid, I can't remember his name,
not very.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
But him Larry.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
He has he has the wildest experience of them all.
I would say probably mine have been close to his.
We go down into the Red Line because Down and
Out's not too far from Pershing Square Red Line, and
I'm having to meet my girlfriend at the time in
k Town because she was working at Cony New York Pizzeria,
which is right on the most supercard they closed up,
and uh we I'm supposed to be all right, your work.
(11:43):
I'm just trying to I'm trying to paint a good
picture for everyone, all right. So so I get I
get on I get on the red line. This kid
is behind me and like he's he's fucked up already,
like super fucked up, and like I'm not paying much
attention to him. And I'm supposed to help him get
on the Red Line because he doesn't know how to
get back to North Hollywood anyway. He falls behind, and
I'm trying to get.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
To my girl's new in town.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
He's new in town. Yeah, so and and Wills Will
is my manager, and he says, make sure he gets
where he's got to get because he you know, like,
and I'm like, all right, I'll make sure that I
get through the turnstiles. He's nowhere behind me. I don't
know what happens to him. So yeah, exactly at that point,
I've already fucked up. Man, I didn't care, and I
know that's a shitty I didn't really care at the time.
(12:24):
I passed out on the train, and I don't normally
pass out. I woke up and I started pissing all
in the train, and I realized that I'd woke up
in Hollywood on the Red Line, somewhere where I should
have gotten off in Koreatown, which is before the Red
Line gets up into Hollywood. So I'm i and I
have to piss so bad, and I would never do
something like this, but I just whip it out and
I start pissing on the train.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Sometimes there's just an emergency, exactly it it's either in
my pants or it's on this wall. And I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
And my girl wanted to go with her coworkers, which uh,
they're all Koreaan. This is in k Town, and they
wanted to go to an after hour spot and drink
sowd you all night. So I end up catching a
cab from Hollywood down to Koreatown and we go into
this little bar and I remember being so out of
my mind. I don't know what I said. I don't
remember what I said, but I know I said something
(13:12):
to a female that upset the boyfriend of one of
these females inside this bar to where the next thing
I remember is waking up outside the bar with my
face completely covered in blood, looking at a security guard
trying to get back into the door, not realizing what happened.
He said, I said, man, what happened? He said, you
just got your ass beat? Dude, I'd get out of here,
and they're like, so, I'm completely covered in blood, and
(13:34):
my girlfriend at the time is turning around trying to
bash out all the car windows in the parking lot.
And the weird part of this story.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Is was she she was with us because she was
trying to hit all the car windows on the She
was really upset because the girls that were with her
were her coworkers at the pizza joint and the boyfriends
beat my ass.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Okay, so she's going to take it out on every
single car.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
She did. Yeah, she tried to. She she really tried to. Man, Really,
I do I really know how to pick him? Yeah,
so she's got rage issues.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
She pissed him. I was just like a random person like, look,
fight just broke out. Well, they're gonna get his ass
beat that's shitty, yeah, man. And then two minutes later
here So that was my Toyota style. It's already a
piece of garbage, but it's buy a piece of garbage.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
So it ends up and and like I start to
realize what's going on with my girlfriend at the time,
and I'm like, fuck, we gotta get out of here.
The cops are going to come, and the security guards like, dude,
you guys need to go. So we start walking down
the street. A guy that's in an r V rolls
up beside us and says, get in. Don't we got in?
Why because.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Puppies or candy or both.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
I guess he realized what it's what was happening. He
watched it all like unfold. Maybe he was living in
his RV. I don't really know. I don't remember the
guy's face.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
He's probably a smart man.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
He did a very kind thing. He picked us up
and he took us to our apartment, which was probably
about a five minute drive up street to Katown and
dropped us off at our apartment.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Which is kind of good because I mean, after this,
you know, scuffle breaks out at the bar and you're
just some guy that's stumbling home with the bloody face.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
I don't I'm not.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I'm not an officer of the law, but I think
I could put two and two together on that one.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
And she's trying to bash our car windows at the
same time. So I mean there was there's a lot
of things that illegal. Yeah, I've heard that as well.
People don't necessarily care for that. Yeah. So that happened
with me, and I went to sleep. Now I woke
up the next day and I remember calling that I
was like, oh shit, that kid, how did he get home? Man?
So I remember, now this is his story, and then
(15:36):
I'll go into Wills because Wills is kind of short
at the end, and it's kind of wild too. But
this is why I say, we had to ben Roofy
because all the shit happened to us. So I tried
calling that kid for two days. So I was off
over the weekend. Sat that next day. I either didn't
go to work to wash those dishes or I just
wasn't supposed to go to work. And we're closed on
Sundays because we're in the financial district, and you know,
(15:58):
we're just not open. You know, a lot of makes exactly,
So that happened, and I kept calling him for a
day or two and he didn't answer. And that Monday,
I remember coming in and I seen him and his
face was fucked up, and I was like, what's wrong?
What happened to you? Man? He was like, dude, he
was like, I remember being in the station with you,
and I woke up on the ground in the station
(16:19):
in a puddle of blood, and my phone was gone
and my wallet was gone.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Dude just got shirted up, mugged, I guess.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
So he doesn't know what happened either, dude, but he
got his phone robbed. He got his phone robbed, he
got his wallet stolen. All the cash that he made
that night, because we probably spent maybe twenty twenty five
bucks with a tip on the drinks that we spent,
so we had a good amount of money each. He's
at least got to yeah, exactly, So someone must have
what I'm thinking about the situation. Someone must have hurt
(16:45):
us talking about the tips we made at the bar.
They roofied us, They fucking tried to get us, you know,
and they.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Got like that old thing loose lips, steel tips.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Yeah, I mean I've never heard that. That's cool. Yeah,
I got a copyrighted Yeah that's good. Make a T shirt, yeah, exactly, So.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Coexist.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
That is his story. And then back to Will. Will
gets in a cab, now his roommate, they live in
Eagle Rock at the time, h his and we're in
downtown LA. He's uh. He goes to his buddy's restaurant,
which is like a really nice fine dining uh fucking
French restaurant downtown, way nicer than the place we were
working at, goes into his job and just calls a
huge scene, man, a huge scene, to the point where
(17:26):
his roommate Brad has to push him out of the restaurant,
put him back in a cab, and send him home.
Now that's all I really know about his story. But
I just remember I.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Wish I was there to see what the scene is.
I could just see he's blackout, out of his mind.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
We're all out. I mean, I don't remember what happened.
I remember like waking up in front of that door
at that little after hours Korean spot, and maybe I
had a little sodu there, but I had said something
way off the wall because I'm I'm I'm not like that.
I don't talk. I'm not I'm a pactifist by any means.
Even if people approach me in a fighting way, I
just like try to like diffuse the situation and like
(17:59):
that's not like me. I don't even drink anymore, you know,
but like it's just like that situation I was. I
woke up there in my face I could fill the
blood trickling down my face, and I'm asking the security
guard what happened. He's like, man, you got your ass beat.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
And I was like, okayards like sympathizing with you, like yeah,
And I mean he wasn't upset ring No, No, he
looked at me like, man, you got sucked up, man,
And that's what happened.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
So rufees.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
All right, thanks guys. In this segment, we're joined once
again by Jess, who left a drink unattended for a
few harmful minutes. This leads to some very interesting decision making.
All right, Jess here once again in the hot seat again.
So random question.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Roofies, like do I like them?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Do I do them?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
It's like a casual recreational thing.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
They'd be the weirdest hobby I hear. I go home
on a Wednesday afternoon just pop a couple of roofies
called it a night.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Yeah, you know, sometimes I'll leave my drink behind and
I'm always like, don't roofy me.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
But if you do, let me know so I can
have a really good time.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Sounds like you're fishing for No, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
It's just a way to deal with my PTSD.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
From actually being roofied, which happened this one night after work.
I was also working up north UH and I'd gotten
off my shift and I had gone out with some
friends to uh a bar that.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Was down in the mission. It was a gay bar
actually down in the mission, and I was like.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Let's go. This is gonna be San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, they have those there.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah crazy.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah, it's weird, but we used to. This was a
bar that we used to go to all the time.
We loved it, and we'd gotten off work. It was
very close to where we were working, so we were at.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
The bar was like high energy. It was a kind
of like a mellow dive bar.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
No that that specific.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
They always had music, they always had bad they always
had things going on that specific night they were like
serving these pink yellow shots.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
It was like that kind of a place. Okay, okay,
And they did.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Well, and they did have music going on and they
had a DJ. And so I had ordered a drink.
I think that you know me well enough to know
that I can have more than one drink. Yeah, and so,
and I hadn't had anything at work, so we'd gone
and I ordered, Uh, though, this is back, we can
(20:35):
go back.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Okay, don't judge.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
It's important to just be honest.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Vodka red Bull. I know, don't judge.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
And I know you guys are never going to invite
me back, That's what I'm saying. And and so I
left it on the bar, and a couple of us
left our drinks on the bar. As customary, we put
a napkin over the top of your glass. Everyone who's listening,
when you leave a bar and you leave your drink,
put a napkin over your glass. That means we won't
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throw it away, Yes, because I love that. When people
come back, they're like, where's my drink?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
You're like, you left. It was like a third foal.
I thought you just left.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
So, as it is bar custom, I put a napkin
on top of my cocktail and I went to the
dance floor.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Friend, you don't want to waste that red bull, of course,
just to make you feel better. I remember one of
the first times I ever drank. I went to a
house party and the thing I fell in love with
because I was such a sissy, la la. I didn't
know my business when it comes to booze. Oh, this
gentleman got hi. I am apple pucker, yeah, straight, like
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just taking shots of apple pucker.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I proud of it. So look, okay, I.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Did shots of Goldschlager.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Okay, you remember that shit? Oh yeah, god. I remember
in high school we went on a band trip and
a guy somehow got like a little like fifth of
it or what not fifth, but like the pocket like
sleep whatever, and he was just like, check it out,
that's real gold. And I thought he was. I thought
he was so cool because I'm like a junior playing
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trombone in this man That's on the road.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yeah, I didn't have much cool points.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Then, well, I think after drinking the goals lawyer, you
don't have any more cool points.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
No, I think. I think I took like a sip
and then I thought you know, being only child of
the pastor too, this is so wrong, like I'm going
to hell. This is hell. I just sipped Hell. I
just sipped my feature and help that just happened?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Oh god, yeah, we can trade for sure, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Anyway you covered with red Bull, you go.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Outside, No, we go to the dance floor. We don't
even leave the bar. We're still in the bar.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Why din'd you take a drink with you? Can you
not shake your money maker while still holding your cocktail?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Or you don't understand these moves.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Jess, Oh are they complex moves? I don't know. You're
going full electric buggaloo break in two.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
You know, the drink, the drink really just like holds
me back, okay, you know, doesn't let me let lose. Anyways, Sorry,
I don't know why we left the fucking drinks at
the bar.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
It was the dumbest thing we probably had ever done.
But we're maybe gone six seven minutes max. Like we're
not even a full ten, Like we're not gone that long.
One or two songs. We come back, we chug our
drinks and we're like we're gonna move on, Like let's
go to another bar, Like because you can throw a
(23:42):
rock and hit another bar in San Francisco, right, Like,
you just walk across the street and there's another one.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
The whole city is only seven miles in diameter. You
can throw a rock and hit anything else.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yes you can.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Yeah, yeah, it's tiny, Yeah, yeah it is. So we
go to another bar. I don't remember being at the
next bar. Oh okay, I don't even remember being there.
I remember walking out the front door, but I do
not remember being in the next bar. I Also, what
happened after that is I ended up getting on a bus, right,
(24:17):
because that's all we used to do in San Francisco
is take buses. But I got on this bus by
myself because I thought it was a great idea to
head out by myself because I.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Had to leave.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Assuming at this point that something happened to your drink,
So you have some roofie action going on. My question,
since I've never been rufied knock on wood the week
still young, confuse me for a second. I did. When
you say like you don't remember or this or that,
(24:47):
do you feel like like you're a zombie or do
you feel like super empowered?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
No, no, you feel kind of like a zombie.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Okay, Yeah, it's so like you like seem to have
happen around you, into you, but.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Believe it or not. Just like I've blacked out once
or twice more. Yeah, I know that, you know what,
it's not like a blackout.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
It's kind of like you it's kind of like it
was a dream, like it didn't actually happen.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
That's one of the decision makings, like do you feel
like you're a superhuman or do you feel.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Like No, you definitely don't feel these.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Decisions were made by somebody else, and I just went along.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, you just kind of you just kind of go along.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Okay, you just kind of just kind of roll with
the punches.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
It seems creepier.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
It is creepier.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
And PCPs where you feel like a superhero.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Why couldn't they have just drug me with PCP.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Because they're cheap skates.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Pick the wrong goddamn bar, stupid cheap skates.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Anyways, but there had been in hindsight, Okay, this is
like days later when I talked with my girlfriends because
I was the only one that this happened to. There
was this dude standing at the bar like buy our
drinks that wouldn't leave them, right, and it was just
like standing there and it wasn't drinking anything, right, So
like hindsight, that was probably like not the best way
or the best place.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
To leave our cocktails.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
But also I'm like, what twenty two, twenty three years old, Like,
I'm not thinking about that shit, right, And this is
a bar that I've been to before.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
It's never happened to me before. I'm with all my
coworkers like what could go wrong?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Right, You're invincible?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yeah, I'm great. Yeah, no, not so much.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Nope.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
So we end up at this bar and I don't
fully remember being there. I don't even know if I
drank anything there. I don't think I did. I think
I tried to, and I think the girls were just like,
it's like you're really really drunk, right, It's kind of
like you're really really hammered.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
It is what it's like.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Yeah, but I had only had one cocktail and the
girls knew I had only had one cocktail. So then
I decide that I'm gonna get back on the bus,
because that seems getting on the bus is.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
A great idea.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah, I'm gonna get on the bus. I'm gonna go home.
My boyfriend's at home. I'm gonna go meet him at home.
So I get on this bus. This bus is also
like one of the longest bus rides of my life. Right,
It's really not. It's probably like two miles. Maybe on
the bus wasn't terrible, but it felt like I felt
like it was years. Right, and I get to where
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my house is and it was a couple of blocks
away where the bus would drop off.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
So I had to walk a couple of blocks.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
But instead of walking towards my house, I decided to
walk the other way. The other way was an old
Macy's or I'm sorry, not Macy's, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
An old Mervin's.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Get it straight, get excuse me.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
It was an old Mervin.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Next, are you going to switch into Miller's out post?
Speaker 4 (27:28):
No?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
No, no, no, no, no, you need to stay.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
It was on Merns.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
I swear to God, and I crossed the street and
I was like, I'm gonna break into this place, Like
what I'm gonna break into Mervins? Like well, I thought
it was open initially, but it wasn't. And then I
was like, how well, how can I get in? Like
I need I need to get in. I need to
get some clothes.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Yeah, get some stock.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I got to get some stuff.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
This Mervins had been closed for like six months. Like
I'm just trying to break into this Mervins. I finally
give up.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
This is your idea on a bus?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Yeah, that was my that's my hot idea Mervins.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yes, do this sounds great?
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Sounds awesome.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
By the way, for as far as like you know,
normally like when it comes like fashion, there's different names
that are like ooh, like it's in the lure to it, like,
uh right Mervins, I know, yeah, No, how would they say?
This is so long? That's where I am. Irvin's, That's
where I was.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I thought that was a great plan, genius plan, Jess.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
So did you get in?
Speaker 3 (28:27):
So?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
No, I didn't get in. I finally gave up.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Right, I'm not a quitter, Jess, but I definitely quit
trying to break into Irvin's. And at this point, one
of my girlfriends had realized that I was gone. I
had realized like twenty minutes ago that I had disappeared,
right because I just like Gypsy faded out right, like
I I ghosted and got on a bus, right. Yeah,
So they realized I was gone, and yes, and they
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thought I was wasted, right, The girls thought I was
just hammered.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
And to this point you already had like maybe two cocktails.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Maybe. I don't even know if I had the second
one at the other bar.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I know for a fact I had that whole disgusting
vodka Red Bull, But I don't know what I had
at the second part.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
I don't know, not.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
A lightweight, so something something's going on.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I can drink most grown men under the table.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
No, I'm you're like, what's your bucket in the Indiana Jones?
Speaker 1 (29:18):
What's her bucket in the Indiana Jokes?
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Yeah? Do you remember like the female character that like
does challenge like the shots and the giant fact I
fell to the table. Yes, yeah, you actually kind of
look like her. You have a resemblance.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
All right, Okay, no, you're both cute.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
That's not a negative thing. But yeah, right, like you've
given me a long time, you can handle your ship.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Yeah, one vodka Red Bull isn't going to kill me.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Right, I've never heard you be like I got Certsy
the room spinner. I've never heard you say that to me, ever,
And I drink a lot with you.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
They're looking it up online right now.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I'm not gonna say, but it's close.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
It's close.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
You can be cousins.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
So at this point, my girlfriends had contacted my boyfriend
because he was at home, and I'm like two blocks
from home right breaking into the Mervyns and they're just like,
Jess is gone and she is hammered, because this is
just what we think has happened at this point, right yeah,
And they're like and he's like, she's not home.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
When did she leave?
Speaker 3 (30:26):
They were like, I don't know, like half an hour ago,
forty five minutes ago. And he's like, she's not home.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
I got a call from Irvin.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
So what's going down? The costs are called to the
old Mervions. No, So he's like, I'm gonna go out.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I'm gonna start looking for her, Like maybe she's just
on the street somewhere, Like she's in the general vicinity,
she's got to be, so maybe she's just on the
streets somewhere wandering around. So he goes out to look
for me, And as he goes to look for me,
I'm crossing the street right from Mervin's because I've given up.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
I've given up on my too. I imagine, Yeah, I've
given up on.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
My you're not walking shamefu Like no, look like on
a mission.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I gotta get there, yeah, terminator style, like.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
I've given up on my felony break in, and I've
decided that across the street there's motherfucker, there's this really
shitty diner, Like, oh, really shitty diner. I don't actually
it was really good but also really shitty. But they
were open twenty four hours and you could.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Just see the light, you know, it was like it
was beckoning you.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Yeah, like don't go towards the light, but I did.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
No, come towards.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
It's like, I'm gonna go get me some breakfast, Like
why not?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
And uh.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
At this point, my boyfriend sees me crossing the street, right,
and he's like, holy shit, there she is, right.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
And your full terminator stands.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Yeah, great, gotcha across the street.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
So I get over there, be accomplished.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
He knows better than to fuck with me when I'm wasted, right,
So he's like, I'm just going to follow her and
make sure she's okay because she might fight me.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Right, So he's like, I'm gonna go in with relationship.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
No, I never fought with him I really didn't because
he knew better.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
He knew better.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Yeah, so I get a very indignant, very indignant so
he he follows me in.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I don't so after this moment, after.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
The messed up felony, and on my way to the
last thing that I truly truly remember, because all of
this is also in a fog, right, it's kind of
like it was all a dream, like it didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Yeah, but then I kind.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Of go to blackout right like because I don't actually remember.
I remember seeing the restaurant, I don't remember going into
the restaurant, Okay, but thank god he found me on
the street right there, because I did go into the restaurant.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
And about an hour later, I come to.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Like come out of the blackout come too, and I
am face down in a plate of waffles. Face yeah,
it could be worse.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
I was.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
I was bracing for, like, face down.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
He just like let me do it. Apparently what had happened.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
I had ordered these waffles and I got really tired,
and I decided I was just going to sleep on them,
and he just let me do that because I guess
that was better than I don't know, trying to move
me or yeah, I mean anybody who knows me. When
I go to sleep, I go to sleep, you don't.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
You can't move me.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
And and people who know me will attest to this,
like if I pass out on the couch, don't even
try and get me up, Like that's not a thing.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Rock. I am here, this is where I exist, period.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Don't try and move me.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
I'm good, right, I pass out. I know when to
pass out, and when I pass out, don't move me.
So he just kind of let me sleep.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Damn.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Yeah, he just let me sleep in my waffles.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
And then I came through. I came to like about
forty five minutes later, and I was like, what the
fuck happened to me?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
It's such a sweet thing to say about this ex boyfriend,
like just let you sleep in the waffles. Yeah. Yeah,
he's a giver. Yeah, I like him. I like him.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
He's a very steek guy. He's a very sweet And
that's kind of how I came to now.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Putting it all back together happened like two or three
days later because I had to like piece together for
my girlfriends. What happened, plus my dream slash if I
actually tried to break into the mervins.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
And were they're really waffles?
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Plus?
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Oh they were definitely waffles. Oh okay, I just wanted
to make it more intrigued.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Yeah, sorry, no, no, my boyfriend definitely was like, yeah,
there were on your face. Yeah, but yeah, that that
is my That is a little Oh.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
I don't know if that's the last time I got rufie. No,
that's the last time I got rufie.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Yeah, hopefully the last time.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Yeah, hopefully never again. Or if you do rufie me
just tell me so I can have a good time.
You get a free pass, just let me know so
I can ride the wave.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
No, rufie's are not cool. Please don't roofie people.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
It's terrible. Nobody nobody wins.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Nobody wins. You end up with your face and a
plate of waffles.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Thank you to Michael and Jess for those hrrowing tails.
Excited to see you both real soon. That about wraps
it up for us this week.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
But before we go, do you have any horse stories
from the service industry, Write me at Jesse at stiffpod
dot com or call us and leave a boy smell
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Speaker 2 (35:18):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hey folks, I'm Jesse Wood and this is the podcast
Stiff from straw Hut Media. This is a podcast that
asked questions about the difficult aspects of the service industry.
This episode finds some of our friends put in a
tricky situation while either trying to blow off some steam
or have a good time out and about with some friends,
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they ended up roofied. Have you or anyone you know
ever been roofied?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
You know, sometimes I'll leave my drink behind and I'm
always like, don't roofye me, but if you do, let
me know so I can have a really good time.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
It sounds like you're fishing for No, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
It's just a way to deal with my PTSD from
actually being rufied.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Oh. This week's show, I'm joined by Michael, who, after
a successful catering shift, went out to a bar with
two of his coworkers to wind down. Unfortunately, things wound
up for all three of them. Then Jess returns and
tells a story about leaving a drink unattended. You may
be able to guess where this one's headed this Right
after the break in this story, Mike tells us an
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evening out with two buddies. After one incident, we are
left with three very different terrible stories. So like one
of the like I've done every almost every possible job
in the service and especially like in the food and
beverage I mean talking. I started my career at Chuck
E Cheese. Oh wow, jealous much fun, opened a restaurant
when it opened, Lego land Ooh credentials. But you know,
(01:28):
I've been like a waiter and a bartender and a
bar back. One of the few worlds I never got
into was catering, and I know that's like a little
different of a beast and Mike, you have some catering.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yeah, definitely, And that's something I kind of want to pursue,
like on my own as well, and like open up
like the catering business on this site.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
It seems very lucrat It's a super smart idea. That's
why it's been around forever. I get it. It's just
something I never got a chance to do, and I
sure the money is great.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yeah. Or a food truck, because I think that'd be
something really fucking cool.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I think the food truck things starting to slow down,
like it was huge about five years ago, and I
think it's it's like anything it's self correct, like it's
a pendulum, you know what I mean, where it's there's
not much and then it goes way overboard, and I
think people get somewhat burned out. But all the ones
that are solid are the ones that are sticking around,
so they got assent.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
But you've got to have something that people really crave too,
man like crack, you know, they blew up in the
eighties and you.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Know, yeah, when I was working at Port Lost Abbey,
we had to have food trucks because we can't serve food,
and there were certain ones that catered, Like we had
a Polish truck, which is awesome because you can't find
good Polish food very easily in San Diego let alone,
like la. I mean, you can find a million Indian
spots and million taigh spots, but Polish or Eastern European
(02:38):
foods that had to come by. So people were psyched
on that truck because I can't.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Say fit a niche you know, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, So you were catering, h.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah, So I actually worked at this is it cool
to say companies names? Try to keep those? Yeah, So
I was working at this company called Ocho Mexican Grilled
downtown La on a Third and Grand across from the Moca,
which is a great restaurant by the way, I and
I always give credit to all the restaurants I've worked
at because I try to work at restaurants where I
like their food as well, you know, because I wouldn't
want to work in an establishment where I wouldn't want
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to sell, you know, I wouldn't want to eat what
I'm selling, you.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Know I did. I did a stinted Applebee's. I'm not
proud of it.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Heye, I did want it. Chili's math I feel here.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Chili's is a little is a little step up. I mean,
they're at least Sprinker. But Applebee's everything is either fried,
grilled or microwaved.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
That's the only preparation anyway. Yeah, that's a digress. We
digress exactly. Back to the catering thing. Yeah, I worked
at this company called Oacho Mexican Grill downtown and they
have a few locations. But uh, this was probably five
or six years ago, so we were pretty big in
the like corporate industry there. So what we would do
we'd cold call companies. We would ask them if they've
ever eaten with us before, so on and so forth,
(03:47):
and then we'd snag them. We'd bring in like a
burrito tray or little platters they could try it out.
They say, yeah, come on in.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
It's the oldular mentality exactly.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Yeah, that's pretty much how it's called the comeback hook
line and sinking. Get them. We set them up with
the Day in the Streets, you know these things exactly. Man. Yeah,
so they get the taste and they want it. And
you know, we ended up working this event one night,
and it was a quick little thing. You know, they
had three of us. It was me, my homie Will
and I forget this other kid's name it he just
recently started within He was there maybe thirty days or so,
(04:18):
so we had him tag along with us, and you know,
we button up our little nice white shirts, put her
ties on and stuff. One of us had to bartend,
which was my monkey suit exactly, the old monkey suit
pressed apron. You know, we were rolling our carts down
to I think it was like KPMG or something like that.
So we're serving all these people really easy, like making
(04:38):
a pretty pretty high class clientel. The entire I mean
they were high class and the status of like financial status.
They made good money. But like they were coming up
like let me get a margarita, let me get a
vodka and cranberry, like the really simplistic drinks. It wasn't
like muddling cherries and sugar for old fashions anything like that. Man.
So it's really easy, by the way, because I'm not
a bartender by any means.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I know you're not because you just said mud the cherry. Yeah,
there's no cherries in an old fashion, Okay, you don't
muddle them. Oh it breaks my heart. Like if you
go to like a corporate restaurant and order an old fashion, yeah,
they will take and they will muddle, like the orange
orange slice and those crappy, radioactive, shitty Marchiano cherries, yeah,
the good ones, not the lucados or whatever, and they'll
(05:21):
muddle those things. And then like you're ruining the bourbon.
You're killing me. Yeah, sorry, nerd, I'm here when it
comes to beer and whiskey, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
I'm sorry you man, but on it so, so it
was really easy for me on that sense. And we
worked for like two hours. We you know, we got
them drunk. We drink behind the bar, you know, stealing
the little booze here and there, and then afterwards we
all got tipped out very well. You know for that
night it was like two hours of work. So we
we each made two to three hundred dollars each. We
decided to go down to a local bar downtown, down
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and out, and we had like two to three drinks. Man,
we sell the places where you know they're a diap
bar by the name, Well, I mean you walk inside
the establish and they've revamped it. Gentrification is ruined a
lot of things, and they ruined this bar. In my opinion,
there's a really good bar.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
And uh it's like out in the cuts of Ocean
Side meeting out by Airport Road. It's kind of like
where there's a bunch of junk yards and like a
lot of bikers are hanging on there. It's kind of
a biker bar. Best name though, Okay, it's one more
that's it.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Oh nice, clever like that nice.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Pretty much every other time I went there witness some
sort of fight.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
It's interesting, Yeah, I mean that raw me sometimes.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, it's one of those places where if you order
like a martini, they'll make you one. But if you
try it again, No, you get you get.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Some patricks with your drink.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
That's cool, especially if you're a dude. There's gonna be
a couple of F bombs dropped, and that's the F
bomb that's followed by an aya. So it's interesting. But yeah,
so you're you're catering this event, You're in your monkey suits,
you're pushing the carts. These are pretty easygoing people that
are pretty fleshed with cash.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Yeah, absolutely, man, you know, I mean that's a good gig, right.
The conversations we're lacking, you know, because we just come
from two different worlds. But you know, it's cool, like
we we intermingled. We put a smile on our face.
We made everyone happy, and that's what it's about.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
And they weren't like treating you like the help.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
No exactly. They were wanting to converse, sate and asked
what type of movies and music I like, which they
probably didn't understand what I was talking about when it
came to my musical taste because I'm kind of a weirdo.
I guess in a sense, that's why.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
You'd be surprised some people.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Yeah, yeah, I mean you find those you misread and
you're like, exactly, you're right, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You know who they are too.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, those pleasant surprises. I did not pick you with
the boat tie. It was liking this band. Yeah all right, cool.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Yeah, but it was really easy. You know, we we
had pre prepared everything at the restaurant, you know, we
did I think that night we did skewers and when
we set up with the Shapers, it was like a
burrito set up. We had platters as well, so they
would come through. We'd serve them with their picta guyoh,
you know, corn salce, so on and so forth to
hook it up. They had. They had a good time,
you know, they had their drinks, you know, they socialized,
they danced a little flour it. We had a good time.
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So nothing went wrong, Yeah, nothing went wrong. It went great, man,
And we we made a good amount of tips off
that they tipped very generously. It was great. We enjoyed that.
We rushed all the dirty pans back to the restaurant
because we were ready to have it and us get
out of here exactly. And then the owner we called him,
said hey man, what do you want us to do
with all this ship? And he was like dude, just
leave it there. You guys can come in and watch
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it early in the morning. We were like, fucking sold,
so you are safe. Yeah, that was That was a
fucking point there. So we did that, man, and we
threw our shirts in our backpacks, you know, threw our
t shirts on. We had it down the street, pressing exactly,
so you know, we each had a couple hundred extra
in our pockets. We went down to the bar at
this time. Like I said, gentrifications ruined a lot of things,
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but this bar was the ship back then. Very dirty,
almost had that vomit like you know, alcohol mixed smell
warm wood. That weird. Yeah yeah, and like I mean,
bar musk. Their walls have I guess all the Hollywood
stars mugshots all over it. So what type of war is?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Have you ever seen the Bowie mug shot?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
They have it on the wall there. Yeah, Robert Downey, junr.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Ever looks beautiful in that mugshot. I would look as
good a photo as David Bowie looks in that mug shot.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
And it is not surprising.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Glorious moon age daydream.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
But anyway, Yeah, we were there, man, and I remember
specifically us having no more than and I remember we
each had a drink each with each other, so like
it was like we shot. We started with a shot
of whiskey, and it was probably you always do, yeah, exactly,
shot a whiskey a beer. I mean it was.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Probably call it, I call it prime and the pump.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Yeah, yeah, exact, prime it, you know, get the juices
flowing a little, you know, inside the sweatboard and yeah,
real quick, yeah we we we shoot the whiskey man
and we have a beer. We might have had another
shot of whiskey. But in somewhere in between that it
might have been because these were pint glasses, and you know,
as this is just a thing that you do at
a bar. I don't know, some people may know, some
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people might not know. You take your coaster and you
put it on top of your pint glass when you
go out to smoke a cigarette, because in California, can
the bartender or the bar back that you're coming coming
right drink exactly? So we did that, and somewhere in
between being on the patio outside and smoking coming back in,
this must have happened because well, and then I'm getting
to this. This is a fucking wild man. We all
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we all ended up blacking out at some point in
our day. And I'll go into each of our stories.
I can tell you more of mine because I wasn't
with the other two individuals. But we had that drink,
which was like the second maybe third one, it had
to be the second, and we took another shot of whiskey,
and we might have pounded another beer before we left.
So you're talking maybe tops four drinks, tops, two shots,
two beers and that's nothing, and we had maybe one
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or two.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
You guys aren't amateur, no, yeah, yeah, your twenty first
birthday exactly.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
You know, this was five six years ago. I was
twenty six, twenty seven somewhere around that, so I you know,
I had a good, solid decade long experience, exactly. Yeah.
So you know at that point I should have just
been getting started, and I felt as if I was
until so my buddy Will he decides to leave Ripe
for us, and he ends up getting in a cab
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and I'll get to his story a little after this.
What had happened with him is what he said. But
me and the new kid, I can't remember his name,
not very.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
But him Larry.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
He has he has the wildest experience of them all.
I would say probably mine have been close to his.
We go down into the Red Line because Down and
Out's not too far from Pershing Square Red Line, and
I'm having to meet my girlfriend at the time in
k Town because she was working at Cony New York Pizzeria,
which is right on the most supercard they closed up,
and uh we I'm supposed to be all right, your work.
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I'm just trying to I'm trying to paint a good
picture for everyone, all right. So so I get I
get on I get on the red line. This kid
is behind me and like he's he's fucked up already,
like super fucked up, and like I'm not paying much
attention to him. And I'm supposed to help him get
on the Red Line because he doesn't know how to
get back to North Hollywood anyway. He falls behind, and
I'm trying to get.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
To my girl's new in town.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
He's new in town. Yeah, so and and Wills Will
is my manager, and he says, make sure he gets
where he's got to get because he you know, like,
and I'm like, all right, I'll make sure that I
get through the turnstiles. He's nowhere behind me. I don't
know what happens to him. So yeah, exactly at that point,
I've already fucked up. Man, I didn't care, and I
know that's a shitty I didn't really care at the time.
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I passed out on the train, and I don't normally
pass out. I woke up and I started pissing all
in the train, and I realized that I'd woke up
in Hollywood on the Red Line, somewhere where I should
have gotten off in Koreatown, which is before the Red
Line gets up into Hollywood. So I'm i and I
have to piss so bad, and I would never do
something like this, but I just whip it out and
I start pissing on the train.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Sometimes there's just an emergency, exactly it it's either in
my pants or it's on this wall. And I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
And my girl wanted to go with her coworkers, which uh,
they're all Koreaan. This is in k Town, and they
wanted to go to an after hour spot and drink
sowd you all night. So I end up catching a
cab from Hollywood down to Koreatown and we go into
this little bar and I remember being so out of
my mind. I don't know what I said. I don't
remember what I said, but I know I said something
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to a female that upset the boyfriend of one of
these females inside this bar to where the next thing
I remember is waking up outside the bar with my
face completely covered in blood, looking at a security guard
trying to get back into the door, not realizing what happened.
He said, I said, man, what happened? He said, you
just got your ass beat? Dude, I'd get out of here,
and they're like, so, I'm completely covered in blood, and
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my girlfriend at the time is turning around trying to
bash out all the car windows in the parking lot.
And the weird part of this story.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Is was she she was with us because she was
trying to hit all the car windows on the She
was really upset because the girls that were with her
were her coworkers at the pizza joint and the boyfriends
beat my ass.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Okay, so she's going to take it out on every
single car.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
She did. Yeah, she tried to. She she really tried to. Man, Really,
I do I really know how to pick him? Yeah,
so she's got rage issues.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
She pissed him. I was just like a random person like, look,
fight just broke out. Well, they're gonna get his ass
beat that's shitty, yeah, man. And then two minutes later
here So that was my Toyota style. It's already a
piece of garbage, but it's buy a piece of garbage.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
So it ends up and and like I start to
realize what's going on with my girlfriend at the time,
and I'm like, fuck, we gotta get out of here.
The cops are going to come, and the security guards like, dude,
you guys need to go. So we start walking down
the street. A guy that's in an r V rolls
up beside us and says, get in. Don't we got in?
Why because.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Puppies or candy or both.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
I guess he realized what it's what was happening. He
watched it all like unfold. Maybe he was living in
his RV. I don't really know. I don't remember the
guy's face.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
He's probably a smart man.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
He did a very kind thing. He picked us up
and he took us to our apartment, which was probably
about a five minute drive up street to Katown and
dropped us off at our apartment.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Which is kind of good because I mean, after this,
you know, scuffle breaks out at the bar and you're
just some guy that's stumbling home with the bloody face.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
I don't I'm not.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I'm not an officer of the law, but I think
I could put two and two together on that one.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
And she's trying to bash our car windows at the
same time. So I mean there was there's a lot
of things that illegal. Yeah, I've heard that as well.
People don't necessarily care for that. Yeah. So that happened
with me, and I went to sleep. Now I woke
up the next day and I remember calling that I
was like, oh shit, that kid, how did he get home? Man?
So I remember, now this is his story, and then
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I'll go into Wills because Wills is kind of short
at the end, and it's kind of wild too. But
this is why I say, we had to ben Roofy
because all the shit happened to us. So I tried
calling that kid for two days. So I was off
over the weekend. Sat that next day. I either didn't
go to work to wash those dishes or I just
wasn't supposed to go to work. And we're closed on
Sundays because we're in the financial district, and you know,
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we're just not open. You know, a lot of makes exactly,
So that happened, and I kept calling him for a
day or two and he didn't answer. And that Monday,
I remember coming in and I seen him and his
face was fucked up, and I was like, what's wrong?
What happened to you? Man? He was like, dude, he
was like, I remember being in the station with you,
and I woke up on the ground in the station
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in a puddle of blood, and my phone was gone
and my wallet was gone.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Dude just got shirted up, mugged, I guess.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
So he doesn't know what happened either, dude, but he
got his phone robbed. He got his phone robbed, he
got his wallet stolen. All the cash that he made
that night, because we probably spent maybe twenty twenty five
bucks with a tip on the drinks that we spent,
so we had a good amount of money each. He's
at least got to yeah, exactly, So someone must have
what I'm thinking about the situation. Someone must have hurt
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us talking about the tips we made at the bar.
They roofied us, They fucking tried to get us, you know,
and they.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Got like that old thing loose lips, steel tips.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Yeah, I mean I've never heard that. That's cool. Yeah,
I got a copyrighted Yeah that's good. Make a T shirt, yeah, exactly, So.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Coexist.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
That is his story. And then back to Will. Will
gets in a cab, now his roommate, they live in
Eagle Rock at the time, h his and we're in
downtown LA. He's uh. He goes to his buddy's restaurant,
which is like a really nice fine dining uh fucking
French restaurant downtown, way nicer than the place we were
working at, goes into his job and just calls a
huge scene, man, a huge scene, to the point where
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his roommate Brad has to push him out of the restaurant,
put him back in a cab, and send him home.
Now that's all I really know about his story. But
I just remember I.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Wish I was there to see what the scene is.
I could just see he's blackout, out of his mind.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
We're all out. I mean, I don't remember what happened.
I remember like waking up in front of that door
at that little after hours Korean spot, and maybe I
had a little sodu there, but I had said something
way off the wall because I'm I'm I'm not like that.
I don't talk. I'm not I'm a pactifist by any means.
Even if people approach me in a fighting way, I
just like try to like diffuse the situation and like
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that's not like me. I don't even drink anymore, you know,
but like it's just like that situation I was. I
woke up there in my face I could fill the
blood trickling down my face, and I'm asking the security
guard what happened. He's like, man, you got your ass beat.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
And I was like, okayards like sympathizing with you, like yeah,
And I mean he wasn't upset ring No, No, he
looked at me like, man, you got sucked up, man,
And that's what happened.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
So rufees.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
All right, thanks guys. In this segment, we're joined once
again by Jess, who left a drink unattended for a
few harmful minutes. This leads to some very interesting decision making.
All right, Jess here once again in the hot seat again.
So random question.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Roofies, like do I like them?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Do I do them?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
It's like a casual recreational thing.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
They'd be the weirdest hobby I hear. I go home
on a Wednesday afternoon just pop a couple of roofies
called it a night.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Yeah, you know, sometimes I'll leave my drink behind and
I'm always like, don't roofy me.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
But if you do, let me know so I can
have a really good time.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Sounds like you're fishing for No, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
It's just a way to deal with my PTSD.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
From actually being roofied, which happened this one night after work.
I was also working up north UH and I'd gotten
off my shift and I had gone out with some
friends to uh a bar that.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Was down in the mission. It was a gay bar
actually down in the mission, and I was like.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Let's go. This is gonna be San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, they have those there.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah crazy.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah, it's weird, but we used to. This was a
bar that we used to go to all the time.
We loved it, and we'd gotten off work. It was
very close to where we were working, so we were at.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
The bar was like high energy. It was a kind
of like a mellow dive bar.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
No that that specific.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
They always had music, they always had bad they always
had things going on that specific night they were like
serving these pink yellow shots.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
It was like that kind of a place. Okay, okay,
And they did.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Well, and they did have music going on and they
had a DJ. And so I had ordered a drink.
I think that you know me well enough to know
that I can have more than one drink. Yeah, and so,
and I hadn't had anything at work, so we'd gone
and I ordered, Uh, though, this is back, we can
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go back.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Okay, don't judge.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
It's important to just be honest.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Vodka red Bull. I know, don't judge.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
And I know you guys are never going to invite
me back, That's what I'm saying. And and so I
left it on the bar, and a couple of us
left our drinks on the bar. As customary, we put
a napkin over the top of your glass. Everyone who's listening,
when you leave a bar and you leave your drink,
put a napkin over your glass. That means we won't
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throw it away, Yes, because I love that. When people
come back, they're like, where's my drink?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
You're like, you left. It was like a third foal.
I thought you just left.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
So, as it is bar custom, I put a napkin
on top of my cocktail and I went to the
dance floor.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Friend, you don't want to waste that red bull, of course,
just to make you feel better. I remember one of
the first times I ever drank. I went to a
house party and the thing I fell in love with
because I was such a sissy, la la. I didn't
know my business when it comes to booze. Oh, this
gentleman got hi. I am apple pucker, yeah, straight, like
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just taking shots of apple pucker.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I proud of it. So look, okay, I.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Did shots of Goldschlager.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Okay, you remember that shit? Oh yeah, god. I remember
in high school we went on a band trip and
a guy somehow got like a little like fifth of
it or what not fifth, but like the pocket like
sleep whatever, and he was just like, check it out,
that's real gold. And I thought he was. I thought
he was so cool because I'm like a junior playing
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trombone in this man That's on the road.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yeah, I didn't have much cool points.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Then, well, I think after drinking the goals lawyer, you
don't have any more cool points.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
No, I think. I think I took like a sip
and then I thought you know, being only child of
the pastor too, this is so wrong, like I'm going
to hell. This is hell. I just sipped Hell. I
just sipped my feature and help that just happened?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Oh god, yeah, we can trade for sure, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Anyway you covered with red Bull, you go.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Outside, No, we go to the dance floor. We don't
even leave the bar. We're still in the bar.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Why din'd you take a drink with you? Can you
not shake your money maker while still holding your cocktail?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Or you don't understand these moves.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Jess, Oh are they complex moves? I don't know. You're
going full electric buggaloo break in two.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
You know, the drink, the drink really just like holds
me back, okay, you know, doesn't let me let lose. Anyways, Sorry,
I don't know why we left the fucking drinks at
the bar.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
It was the dumbest thing we probably had ever done.
But we're maybe gone six seven minutes max. Like we're
not even a full ten, Like we're not gone that long.
One or two songs. We come back, we chug our
drinks and we're like we're gonna move on, Like let's
go to another bar, Like because you can throw a
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rock and hit another bar in San Francisco, right, Like,
you just walk across the street and there's another one.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
The whole city is only seven miles in diameter. You
can throw a rock and hit anything else.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yes you can.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Yeah, yeah, it's tiny, Yeah, yeah it is. So we
go to another bar. I don't remember being at the
next bar. Oh okay, I don't even remember being there.
I remember walking out the front door, but I do
not remember being in the next bar. I Also, what
happened after that is I ended up getting on a bus, right,
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because that's all we used to do in San Francisco
is take buses. But I got on this bus by
myself because I thought it was a great idea to
head out by myself because I.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Had to leave.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Assuming at this point that something happened to your drink,
So you have some roofie action going on. My question,
since I've never been rufied knock on wood the week
still young, confuse me for a second. I did. When
you say like you don't remember or this or that,
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do you feel like like you're a zombie or do
you feel like super empowered?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
No, no, you feel kind of like a zombie.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Okay, Yeah, it's so like you like seem to have
happen around you, into you, but.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Believe it or not. Just like I've blacked out once
or twice more. Yeah, I know that, you know what,
it's not like a blackout.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
It's kind of like you it's kind of like it
was a dream, like it didn't actually happen.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
That's one of the decision makings, like do you feel
like you're a superhuman or do you feel.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Like No, you definitely don't feel these.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Decisions were made by somebody else, and I just went along.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, you just kind of you just kind of go along.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Okay, you just kind of just kind of roll with
the punches.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
It seems creepier.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
It is creepier.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
And PCPs where you feel like a superhero.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Why couldn't they have just drug me with PCP.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Because they're cheap skates.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Pick the wrong goddamn bar, stupid cheap skates.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Anyways, but there had been in hindsight, Okay, this is
like days later when I talked with my girlfriends because
I was the only one that this happened to. There
was this dude standing at the bar like buy our
drinks that wouldn't leave them, right, and it was just
like standing there and it wasn't drinking anything, right, So
like hindsight, that was probably like not the best way
or the best place.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
To leave our cocktails.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
But also I'm like, what twenty two, twenty three years old, Like,
I'm not thinking about that shit, right, And this is
a bar that I've been to before.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
It's never happened to me before. I'm with all my
coworkers like what could go wrong?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Right, You're invincible?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yeah, I'm great. Yeah, no, not so much.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Nope.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
So we end up at this bar and I don't
fully remember being there. I don't even know if I
drank anything there. I don't think I did. I think
I tried to, and I think the girls were just like,
it's like you're really really drunk, right, It's kind of
like you're really really hammered.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
It is what it's like.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Yeah, but I had only had one cocktail and the
girls knew I had only had one cocktail. So then
I decide that I'm gonna get back on the bus,
because that seems getting on the bus is.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
A great idea.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah, I'm gonna get on the bus. I'm gonna go home.
My boyfriend's at home. I'm gonna go meet him at home.
So I get on this bus. This bus is also
like one of the longest bus rides of my life. Right,
It's really not. It's probably like two miles. Maybe on
the bus wasn't terrible, but it felt like I felt
like it was years. Right, and I get to where
(27:07):
my house is and it was a couple of blocks
away where the bus would drop off.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
So I had to walk a couple of blocks.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
But instead of walking towards my house, I decided to
walk the other way. The other way was an old
Macy's or I'm sorry, not Macy's, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
An old Mervin's.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Get it straight, get excuse me.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
It was an old Mervin.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Next, are you going to switch into Miller's out post?
Speaker 4 (27:28):
No?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
No, no, no, no, no, you need to stay.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
It was on Merns.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
I swear to God, and I crossed the street and
I was like, I'm gonna break into this place, Like
what I'm gonna break into Mervins? Like well, I thought
it was open initially, but it wasn't. And then I
was like, how well, how can I get in? Like
I need I need to get in. I need to
get some clothes.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Yeah, get some stock.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I got to get some stuff.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
This Mervins had been closed for like six months. Like
I'm just trying to break into this Mervins. I finally
give up.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
This is your idea on a bus?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Yeah, that was my that's my hot idea Mervins.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yes, do this sounds great?
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Sounds awesome.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
By the way, for as far as like you know,
normally like when it comes like fashion, there's different names
that are like ooh, like it's in the lure to it, like,
uh right Mervins, I know, yeah, No, how would they say?
This is so long? That's where I am. Irvin's, That's
where I was.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I thought that was a great plan, genius plan, Jess.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
So did you get in?
Speaker 3 (28:27):
So?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
No, I didn't get in. I finally gave up.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Right, I'm not a quitter, Jess, but I definitely quit
trying to break into Irvin's. And at this point, one
of my girlfriends had realized that I was gone. I
had realized like twenty minutes ago that I had disappeared,
right because I just like Gypsy faded out right, like
I I ghosted and got on a bus, right. Yeah,
So they realized I was gone, and yes, and they
(28:50):
thought I was wasted, right, The girls thought I was
just hammered.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
And to this point you already had like maybe two cocktails.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Maybe. I don't even know if I had the second
one at the other bar.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I know for a fact I had that whole disgusting
vodka Red Bull, But I don't know what I had
at the second part.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
I don't know, not.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
A lightweight, so something something's going on.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I can drink most grown men under the table.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
No, I'm you're like, what's your bucket in the Indiana Jones?
Speaker 1 (29:18):
What's her bucket in the Indiana Jokes?
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Yeah? Do you remember like the female character that like
does challenge like the shots and the giant fact I
fell to the table. Yes, yeah, you actually kind of
look like her. You have a resemblance.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
All right, Okay, no, you're both cute.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
That's not a negative thing. But yeah, right, like you've
given me a long time, you can handle your ship.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Yeah, one vodka Red Bull isn't going to kill me.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Right, I've never heard you be like I got Certsy
the room spinner. I've never heard you say that to me, ever,
And I drink a lot with you.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
They're looking it up online right now.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I'm not gonna say, but it's close.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
It's close.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
You can be cousins.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
So at this point, my girlfriends had contacted my boyfriend
because he was at home, and I'm like two blocks
from home right breaking into the Mervyns and they're just like,
Jess is gone and she is hammered, because this is
just what we think has happened at this point, right yeah,
And they're like and he's like, she's not home.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
When did she leave?
Speaker 3 (30:26):
They were like, I don't know, like half an hour ago,
forty five minutes ago. And he's like, she's not home.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
I got a call from Irvin.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
So what's going down? The costs are called to the
old Mervions. No, So he's like, I'm gonna go out.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I'm gonna start looking for her, Like maybe she's just
on the street somewhere, Like she's in the general vicinity,
she's got to be, so maybe she's just on the
streets somewhere wandering around. So he goes out to look
for me, And as he goes to look for me,
I'm crossing the street right from Mervin's because I've given up.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
I've given up on my too. I imagine, Yeah, I've
given up on.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
My you're not walking shamefu Like no, look like on
a mission.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I gotta get there, yeah, terminator style, like.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
I've given up on my felony break in, and I've
decided that across the street there's motherfucker, there's this really
shitty diner, Like, oh, really shitty diner. I don't actually
it was really good but also really shitty. But they
were open twenty four hours and you could.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Just see the light, you know, it was like it
was beckoning you.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Yeah, like don't go towards the light, but I did.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
No, come towards.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
It's like, I'm gonna go get me some breakfast, Like
why not?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
And uh.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
At this point, my boyfriend sees me crossing the street, right,
and he's like, holy shit, there she is, right.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
And your full terminator stands.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Yeah, great, gotcha across the street.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
So I get over there, be accomplished.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
He knows better than to fuck with me when I'm wasted, right,
So he's like, I'm just going to follow her and
make sure she's okay because she might fight me.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Right, So he's like, I'm gonna go in with relationship.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
No, I never fought with him I really didn't because
he knew better.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
He knew better.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Yeah, so I get a very indignant, very indignant so
he he follows me in.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I don't so after this moment, after.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
The messed up felony, and on my way to the
last thing that I truly truly remember, because all of
this is also in a fog, right, it's kind of
like it was all a dream, like it didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Yeah, but then I kind.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Of go to blackout right like because I don't actually remember.
I remember seeing the restaurant, I don't remember going into
the restaurant, Okay, but thank god he found me on
the street right there, because I did go into the restaurant.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
And about an hour later, I come to.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Like come out of the blackout come too, and I
am face down in a plate of waffles. Face yeah,
it could be worse.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
I was.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
I was bracing for, like, face down.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
He just like let me do it. Apparently what had happened.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
I had ordered these waffles and I got really tired,
and I decided I was just going to sleep on them,
and he just let me do that because I guess
that was better than I don't know, trying to move
me or yeah, I mean anybody who knows me. When
I go to sleep, I go to sleep, you don't.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
You can't move me.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
And and people who know me will attest to this,
like if I pass out on the couch, don't even
try and get me up, Like that's not a thing.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Rock. I am here, this is where I exist, period.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Don't try and move me.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
I'm good, right, I pass out. I know when to
pass out, and when I pass out, don't move me.
So he just kind of let me sleep.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Damn.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Yeah, he just let me sleep in my waffles.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
And then I came through. I came to like about
forty five minutes later, and I was like, what the
fuck happened to me?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
It's such a sweet thing to say about this ex boyfriend,
like just let you sleep in the waffles. Yeah. Yeah,
he's a giver. Yeah, I like him. I like him.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
He's a very steek guy. He's a very sweet And
that's kind of how I came to now.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Putting it all back together happened like two or three
days later because I had to like piece together for
my girlfriends. What happened, plus my dream slash if I
actually tried to break into the mervins.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
And were they're really waffles?
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Plus?
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Oh they were definitely waffles. Oh okay, I just wanted
to make it more intrigued.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Yeah, sorry, no, no, my boyfriend definitely was like, yeah,
there were on your face. Yeah, but yeah, that that
is my That is a little Oh.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
I don't know if that's the last time I got rufie. No,
that's the last time I got rufie.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Yeah, hopefully the last time.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Yeah, hopefully never again. Or if you do rufie me
just tell me so I can have a good time.
You get a free pass, just let me know so
I can ride the wave.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
No, rufie's are not cool. Please don't roofie people.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
It's terrible. Nobody nobody wins.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Nobody wins. You end up with your face and a
plate of waffles.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Thank you to Michael and Jess for those hrrowing tails.
Excited to see you both real soon. That about wraps
it up for us this week.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
But before we go, do you have any horse stories
from the service industry, Write me at Jesse at stiffpod
dot com or call us and leave a boy smell
at eight three three four one one four s HM
so which, of course is short for straw hut Media.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
I have been your host, Jesse Wood, and this has
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