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Speaker 3: Coming back from the four Days vacation, the real Greg Burgess.
Speaker 3: He missed his encounter here with Tyler the Angry cyclist,
Speaker 3: and I saw it the old video. Excellent. Took his
Speaker 3: family to the wharf, the beautiful Gulf Coast there in
Speaker 3: the Inner Coastal Waterway. So we stayed there a few
Speaker 3: hours and we go back to the room and boy,
Speaker 3: everybody's ready to get in there, you know, and a
Speaker 3: little wind a little and I'll sad. Now Lasa is
Speaker 3: digging in that bag. I always hander everything, and there's
Speaker 3: no key to get in or are the keys are
Speaker 3: in the rum? So I said, what'd you do with it?
Speaker 3: Pretty good? You know, mean what'd you do with the key? Well,
Speaker 3: you didn't get I gave you the key. I thought
Speaker 3: I was convinced I gave you. Yeah, White Shoes was upset,
Speaker 3: so I'm just going I said, I haven't. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: told her, you've lost the key. You know, she said,
Speaker 3: you didn't give me the key, which, now, in my defense,
Speaker 3: she's she goes to that immediately, even when I am right,
Speaker 3: you know, immediately.
Speaker 4: Did you tell her I gave you the key to
Speaker 4: the room and the key to my heart?
Speaker 3: Exactly at that point she didn't want to hear anything.
Speaker 3: Did you say, I'm not sure where the key is.
Speaker 3: I was having a beer summon over doe age little
Speaker 3: line mixed in, uh, but you know and no, but
Speaker 3: her tone wouldn't. She didn't want to hear anything like that.
Speaker 3: What you're saying is though, But in the past, no
Speaker 3: matter whether you're right or not, she always goes, oh yeah.
Speaker 3: We call it the wife's book of blank and again
Speaker 3: a lot. That's my fault because in the past I
Speaker 3: have established a trend. Yeah, I understand, she knows there's
Speaker 3: a pattern. So I go, well, let's go back and look.
Speaker 3: So I walked to the to the thettle girl lets
Speaker 3: you in no way sis. I said, look, can I
Speaker 3: go back in there and look the little tram back?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah? And I said can I go? She goes, well,
Speaker 3: you know, somebody turned one in. I said, ooh good,
Speaker 3: I said, you got it. Here, wasn't no other security guy.
Speaker 3: I took it with it, now did How did Lisa
Speaker 3: say you had lost it? You? She claimed? She said,
Speaker 3: I tell you what you've done. You stuck in your pocket?
Speaker 3: And I said no, because I knew I was going swimming.
Speaker 3: I said I would have felt to swim with that.
Speaker 3: That's right, said, There's no way about that I made
Speaker 3: this statement. I said, I may ask. I said, I
Speaker 3: don't think I did this, but I was looking at
Speaker 3: these T shirts on the way, and maybe I set
Speaker 3: it by those T shirts. Sure, but I ain't stuck
Speaker 3: in my pocket and swam because I felt it.
Speaker 5: Now I got in the water. That's a rookie mistake.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't do that anyway. So the girl says, hey,
Speaker 3: security guys got it, and they called I tell in
Speaker 3: the room. Yeah, I think that's it. Go to the front.
Speaker 3: I could go out to the little meat, the place
Speaker 3: you go when you welcome center.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: I had a lot of hopping around. Huh. Of course
Speaker 3: he's not there yet, so I'm waiting and uh he
Speaker 3: Finally he arrives and a Lisa's still sitting in the car.
Speaker 3: I'm out waiting. You know you're in the car now, yeah.
Speaker 3: I went back, got the car, drove to the thing.
Speaker 3: You know, the tram. W was gonna just run me
Speaker 3: wherever I need and that got right now out and
Speaker 3: right now they got wet bathing suits. Only we're going
Speaker 3: about an hour case. All right, sir, we're about an
Speaker 3: hour out from when we wanted to get in the room. Okay,
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's it's so here. It comes with this
Speaker 3: with this uh, with this security uniform and is uh sparryhead.
Speaker 3: I was glad to see him, and I said, hey,
Speaker 3: look straight up, just let me ask you this subtle argument.
Speaker 3: I said, we're trying to figure out who lost caad.
Speaker 3: Where'd you find it? He said, in the pool? And
Speaker 3: I said, so I go, I'm not telling her way right,
Speaker 3: I'm keeping that there you go. I saw that away
Speaker 3: he walking to the car. Here he comes, follows me.
Speaker 5: I can ask you before he tells her the truth?
Speaker 5: What was going to be? What were you gonna swear?
Speaker 3: I gonna say that we found it in the sand
Speaker 3: over by where she was sitting. And when you were
Speaker 3: reaching in the bag that I thought I told you
Speaker 3: to put it in, you were knocked it out, okay, And.
Speaker 4: You were gonna follow it up with it could happen
Speaker 4: to anyone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, really nice about it. Right. So now though he's
Speaker 3: following you to the so he's fighting the car, so
Speaker 3: I gotta fast up. So here he comes and I think, well,
Speaker 3: he's just gonna have fun and bust me. You know
Speaker 3: what he did because I told him, I said, and
Speaker 3: my wife, And so he's laughing. He goes, so he
Speaker 3: follows me. He opens it up and he goes, well,
Speaker 3: first of all, I was looking for his wife. You
Speaker 3: must be his daughter. Yeah, yeah, there you go here,
Speaker 3: and my wife is pretty and she has aged a
Speaker 3: lot better than I. Well I'm a year older. True,
Speaker 3: I'm a year old than her. He goes, my, goods,
Speaker 3: what'd you do go? Did you pick her up out
Speaker 3: of junior high when you was in high school? Or
Speaker 3: is all this jump like that? And I start listen.
Speaker 3: Then he starts hacking on my hair, turning gray in
Speaker 3: the fact that's thin and yeah, alright, So not only
Speaker 3: is he hitting on my wife, he's trashing lost key
Speaker 3: and the whole time he's busting me about losing the keys.
Speaker 3: The worst what's the worst case was the kids love?
Speaker 3: I say, not, your kids are teenagers? They just were dying.
Speaker 3: The dad he was busting on your hair now, didn't
Speaker 3: have a Safari helmet on now. But we're having fun.
Speaker 4: Friendly, he was.
Speaker 3: He it was a good one on his part. He's
Speaker 3: a great guy.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 4: I mean, Greg can't be happy, Tyler the angry cyclist.
Speaker 4: He's mad about that, and somebody's trying to be nice.
Speaker 3: He's mad. No, this guy was super nice. Of course
Speaker 3: it was. Of course he used that famous and you know,
Speaker 3: I thought it was you. I said, come on, you
Speaker 3: got to get a better line than that.
Speaker 5: Of course you're still wet and you want to get
Speaker 5: the room.
Speaker 3: But he told her, he said, hey, look, don't let
Speaker 3: him tell you that. He said he was found in
Speaker 3: the pool. Don't let him tell you no different. And
Speaker 3: she just looked at me like I told you. I said,
Speaker 3: you're busted. I love how you said. Now, look I
Speaker 3: might have lost it. I'll give you that, but I
Speaker 3: ain't jumping in the pool. He ain't went that far.
Speaker 3: I was pretty adamant. I didn't lose it. I really,
Speaker 3: I'm sure you were.
Speaker 5: I'm sure you were.
Speaker 6: But you know, there's no worse feeling because when you
Speaker 6: go to the pool or you go and you're out
Speaker 6: at the beach and you get back to the room,
Speaker 6: that whole walk there, you're thinking, I'm getting back a
Speaker 6: swim and suit off. I'm gonna, you know, take a
Speaker 6: shower whatever. I'm gonna throw my feet up on the cat.
Speaker 6: I'm just gonna.
Speaker 5: And boy, you get to that door and you're like, hey.
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, she was digging in that awful feeling. She's
Speaker 3: a threat to go. It ain't in here, and it was,
Speaker 3: you know, so you ain't looking. And then I look
Speaker 3: at it.
Speaker 5: Probably a little little little, a little mad you said that.
Speaker 3: I was like, what, let me let me let me
Speaker 3: say this. I'm so prone to lose the room keys
Speaker 3: when you check in. When they say how many keys
Speaker 3: you need? I say, how many do you allow? I'll
Speaker 3: take as many of them as you'll give me, because
Speaker 3: I know we're gonna lose at least one. Right.
Speaker 5: Let me tell you, is this a burgess thing? And
Speaker 5: you know where he's at.
Speaker 3: I signed keys to everybody in the family, so if
Speaker 3: one gets lost, then there's always one that you can
Speaker 3: get back in the door with everybody's gotten stuffed everywhere.
Speaker 3: But you know, yeah, you better have back up. But
Speaker 3: I look, and they got them little censors on those keys.
Speaker 3: So if you do lose one and it and found, hey,
Speaker 3: you're responsible for that little censor. And it's not cheap.
Speaker 5: So Daddy was worried about that.
Speaker 3: So even though I got busted, I was so relieved
Speaker 3: that he found it. I didn't care that he busted me, right,
Speaker 3: and he was just having fun. It was.
Speaker 5: So when you got back in the.
Speaker 3: Car and and I heard it all the way to
Speaker 3: the parking deck, well I knew it. I told you.
Speaker 3: I told you that you put it in your pants
Speaker 3: and you went swimming, and I did. I didn't think
Speaker 3: i'd even lost it, but I knew I didn't have
Speaker 3: my pants. I knew that. Little have you did it
Speaker 3: freak you out? Since you were so confident, I was
Speaker 3: hammocking just a little too much. I know what I'm
Speaker 3: saying is Greg did it?
Speaker 4: I mean you appear to be a little confused on
Speaker 4: all this.
Speaker 3: Went to the summit When I was in me who
Speaker 3: else was in theother hammocks? Was it Professor Gates? It
Speaker 3: was the leader of the free world over there. Stand
Speaker 3: up was big hearted Joe trying to get it, trying
Speaker 3: to get your beer, nuts Samuel Adams. Yeah, yeh yeh.
Speaker 4: Which, by the way, on I feel like if that
Speaker 4: kid had a Couris logo, Greg.
Speaker 3: Get caught up in the beach? Out so little its
Speaker 3: easy to get caught up in the beach. Did little
Speaker 3: Greg go park the car? Oh yeah? Did you even
Speaker 3: see over the dash? I mean, what was I gonna
Speaker 3: side lit Greg out when he said it was found
Speaker 3: in the pool. You know, when he said it's found
Speaker 3: the pool, there was nobody responsible for me. I was
Speaker 3: on the pool. Well all right, monsigned on my pasta
Speaker 3: when I dropped on the pool. Oh look there's little Greg.
Speaker 3: I'm so slid pulp. She's still talking about I mean,
Speaker 3: gonna stimb on a little tollable I did. I just
Speaker 3: want to work out for her. Of course she had
Speaker 3: to say, of course, we're finally in the room after
Speaker 3: an hour. And then everybody blames you for any kind
Speaker 3: of chafing they may have. Listen, I was. I even
Speaker 3: took a tone when she couldn't find it in the bag.
Speaker 3: Where's it at you? You's in the back. You took
Speaker 3: a tone kind of like you were blaming her.
Speaker 5: Go from Big Greg to little Greg, just like in
Speaker 5: an instant.
Speaker 3: How came you checking you back? I tell you one thing,
Speaker 3: I know, I know I did not get in the
Speaker 3: pool with it. Well I found okay anyway, with sives
Speaker 3: of love, ricking bubba, ricking bubba. So I'm trying to
Speaker 3: get to the Creation Museum and I just can't get there.
Speaker 3: And so we're now in Charlotte. We finally get over
Speaker 3: to the gate. We've been delayed all the way, supposed
Speaker 3: to have been in Cincinnati at the airport at three
Speaker 3: forty five. Uh, and now we're still not there. And
Speaker 3: it's ten thirty Eastern time. Uh, and we're we're in
Speaker 3: Charlotte or ten and we're getting ready to load. And
Speaker 3: of course, me knowing I'm shuffling, I'm watching. I see
Speaker 3: the guy moving around. I see him going for the microphone.
Speaker 3: I tell sheriff said, here it comes, Oh, here it
Speaker 3: comes those of you that are trying to take flight
Speaker 3: so and so, so and so into the Cincinnati airport.
Speaker 3: We regret to inform you that we're going to be delayed.
Speaker 3: And I said, good, good, not look at that. And
Speaker 3: then this is the Segon when they get you with
Speaker 3: the weather. But their new one is the crew mystery
Speaker 3: your crew has been misplaced, is delayed, and they're working
Speaker 3: their way from their gate, so we'll hopefully get you
Speaker 3: loaded in about twenty minutes.
Speaker 4: Could you understand what they were saying on the on
Speaker 4: the intercom.
Speaker 3: Came a lot of.
Speaker 4: Times I think they could say anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm losing you've lost your crew.
Speaker 4: And we'll try to find I'm sure.
Speaker 3: Right right, and I'm I'm like, good, good Gray. So
Speaker 3: now now I'm just that he said it because the
Speaker 3: plane is at the gate, and that that that that
Speaker 3: takes you to a place. And again, different airlines do
Speaker 3: it different ways. If I could say one thing to
Speaker 3: usay or when you when you don't make the time
Speaker 3: you're supposed to depart, will you please change the sign?
Speaker 3: Please change the sign, because it really kills us to
Speaker 3: keep looking like we're an hour past the time it's
Speaker 3: supposed to depart and it's still on the board that
Speaker 3: we're departing that time. That didn't happen, So take it
Speaker 3: off the sign to keep. And the thing is, they
Speaker 3: won't just tell you that it's going to be a while.
Speaker 3: They always give you these these horrib these numbers that
Speaker 3: give you hope. Well, we're supposed to be a take
Speaker 3: off at ten thirty. We'll try to get up maybe
Speaker 3: ten forty five. Well that just come back, tea, just
Speaker 3: come back and go. That's not gonna happen. You won't
Speaker 3: say we don't know when we're leaving. We don't know.
Speaker 3: We just because we've because we've lost the crew. And
Speaker 3: here's the time where I thought that I was going
Speaker 3: to end up not even making it to the Creation Museum.
Speaker 3: They load us onto the plane, the devil, don't you
Speaker 3: get there? They load us onto the plane. Finally at midnight,
Speaker 3: at midnight, at midnight, at midnight, we're on the plane.
Speaker 3: We're gonna land. When we're gonna land now at one
Speaker 3: fifty am.
Speaker 6: Oh my goodness. Okay, that's fighting time.
Speaker 3: Happens after me I came out, I've got children. And
Speaker 3: now we're supposed to be picked up the next morning
Speaker 3: at seven thirty. Oh, because you can't sleep on a plane, right,
Speaker 3: So anyway, you ain't got a car yet. And here's
Speaker 3: where the final straw nearly broke Daddy's back, because I know,
Speaker 3: and Sheerry's told me. She goes, why do you always
Speaker 3: have to put your radar up? And here what everybody's saying.
Speaker 3: I said, well, I gotta know what they're saying. I
Speaker 3: gotta know if they care, because that's really all I
Speaker 3: ask is if you care. Hear the pilots starting to complain.
Speaker 3: I tell you one thing, I'm saying, they don't know
Speaker 3: how long I've been working today, and if they don't
Speaker 3: get their butts on this on this plane and I
Speaker 3: better have anybody whatever. Hey, they may I walk off
Speaker 3: this plane. Flight attendants complaining, which, by the way, on
Speaker 3: the crew is missing. Thing. They said, our crew was missing.
Speaker 3: These two flight attendants I had seen only a few
Speaker 3: hours earlier walking around the airport. Not sure I believe
Speaker 3: that by the way I saw them. I saw them.
Speaker 3: I saw Burgess radar with Yeah, I said, no, no,
Speaker 3: I saw these people. They've been here. But anyway, so.
Speaker 5: Now crew's missing is a good excuse?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: That not.
Speaker 3: I shouldn't you be concerned if the crew is missing. Listen,
Speaker 3: they begin to complain now that they're gonna have to
Speaker 3: fly and that they're gonna have to the service start
Speaker 3: being rude about it on the microphone. I'll tell you
Speaker 3: what now, y'all need to get on a plane and
Speaker 3: don't be hassling around. Y'all need to get in here
Speaker 3: to sit down and start being quiet. Uh, we've had
Speaker 3: a long day, and that was it. That was it.
Speaker 3: That was it. That was it showed out there, whoa,
Speaker 3: whoa you said this out loud. Hey, there's one big difference.
Speaker 3: There's one big difference. We've all been tortured for today,
Speaker 3: and we paid to be tortured. You're getting paid to
Speaker 3: work the day like today. You had a hard day,
Speaker 3: I'll give you that, but you get paid for it.
Speaker 3: We paid to be treated like this. So I don't
Speaker 3: think I'm gonna take a speech from from from from
Speaker 3: you on what a hard day you have. Okay, we
Speaker 3: we've had. We've had a hard day. We've met we been,
Speaker 3: you know, we we we've been. We've been stranded all
Speaker 3: over Creation on what should be a simple trip from
Speaker 3: Birmingham to Cincinnati. My goodness, I didn't ask you to
Speaker 3: take me to the unknown areas of Uganda, Okay. I
Speaker 3: simply asked that you take us to Cincinnati so my
Speaker 3: kids can go to the Creation Museum and worship the Lord.
Speaker 3: That's right, big guy, with you beer. And I'm sorry
Speaker 3: if I'm not gonna hear a speech about how hard
Speaker 3: your day's been. That's what you get paid for, hoss, craking,
Speaker 3: the plan up, sit down, shut up, and drive. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's what you get paid for. We paid our money
Speaker 3: to be treated this way all day. And this is
Speaker 3: where the bird just starts repeating what he said. Give
Speaker 3: me something to drink, something to eat, and massage my shoulders,
Speaker 3: don't you your customers. We've been treated like cattle, and
Speaker 3: not healthy cattle, sick cattle. We've been treated so bad
Speaker 3: we feel that we're not even human anymore. We don't
Speaker 3: want to hear. We don't want to hear about how
Speaker 3: bad your day's been. We don't care. Our day's been bad.
Speaker 3: And we paid money to be treated this way. You're
Speaker 3: getting paid to have a hard day, and you had
Speaker 3: a hard day, but you got a check. We had
Speaker 3: a hard day and we lost money. Had that go rick, well,
Speaker 3: then then it kind of led to an uncomfortable relationship
Speaker 3: between us and the crew. But I'll tell you that
Speaker 3: does the air marshall pull his gun out? I didn't
Speaker 3: do to get in there and drive, so I didn't
Speaker 3: go that far. But I didn't make the point that
Speaker 3: was that, like you know, the kid with the mama
Speaker 3: holds him down, says, I told you to sit down.
Speaker 3: He says, I'm my body is sitting but inside her
Speaker 3: standing right, My, my, My deal was this all I'm
Speaker 3: gonna make. The point is is about who's getting paid
Speaker 3: and who had to pay. Okay, that that point has
Speaker 3: to be made. I can't let that gun no, because see,
Speaker 3: I believe I can make change. See, I think they
Speaker 3: need to hear from somebody. He started it, Rick, he
Speaker 3: started to find Yeah, yeah, you didn't get on there
Speaker 3: and giving this as a coach.
Speaker 6: I've been told by an umpire one more word and
Speaker 6: you're out of the game. Okay, and you fight not
Speaker 6: saying one more word.
Speaker 4: That's where you turn around and say word.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly right. How were you on that and say
Speaker 5: one more word?
Speaker 3: Big guy? No, it was kind of a They didn't
Speaker 3: like me, didn't like me the rest of the flight.
Speaker 3: And you know what, that's all right. I think I
Speaker 3: can live without a plastic cut with half cochine. Okay.
Speaker 3: You know, if if y'all want to keep the water
Speaker 3: down coake for me, I'll make it. Okay, But I
Speaker 3: wanna tell you what. We better start driving. We better
Speaker 3: start backing out, and I want to see people smiling,
Speaker 3: and I want to see people apologizing, and I want
Speaker 3: to see people saying, we go by the way, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go faster and I'm gonna get you there. Instead
Speaker 3: of one fifty, I'm gonna try for one thirty. Do something. Okay,
Speaker 3: don't complain.
Speaker 5: About I did Cherry what Cherry?
Speaker 3: Say after your At this point we're not speaking.
Speaker 2: Ricking Bubba, ricking Bubba.
Speaker 4: Before we go any further, let me send out very
Speaker 4: very big birthday wishes to my son Hunter, who is
Speaker 4: eleven years old. That's right.
Speaker 3: I can't believe, and unfortunately on his birthdays in trouble
Speaker 3: with his mama, thanks to Bubba. All right, all right,
Speaker 3: mother to go. You know, the only thing he told me,
Speaker 3: the only thing he wanted he wanted to be every
Speaker 3: one time, said Roger Federer. Play.
Speaker 4: Wow, you know it's so funny. I will never forget
Speaker 4: John Crall telling us and talking about when he was
Speaker 4: raising his son Brody, who has gone on to play
Speaker 4: in the NFL, and said when he got thirteen years old,
Speaker 4: he announced to Brody, it's over you being a kid.
Speaker 4: You're a man. Now you're mine. You don't go to
Speaker 4: your mama, You go to me. You're gonna learn to
Speaker 4: be a man, not mama's a little boy anymore. And
Speaker 4: it's funny when you make that transition. And I was
Speaker 4: talking to Hunter yesterday and I said, you know, you're
Speaker 4: you're preteen here now, and it's you know, you're a
Speaker 4: young man. You're not a little kid anymore. You know,
Speaker 4: we got to start thinking like a young man and
Speaker 4: acting like a young man. And so I decided yesterday
Speaker 4: that father and son needed a little bonding time. So
Speaker 4: I went and picked him up from school and we
Speaker 4: headed off on a father and son and we had
Speaker 4: one of our friends, Ron mccorkill, join us, and it
Speaker 4: was a little male bonding time, you know, just the guys.
Speaker 4: And we had a little work to do out at
Speaker 4: the farm. So I got a call from mom and
Speaker 4: she said, now, are y'all gonna be home about five?
Speaker 4: And I said, now, honey, I don't know if you've
Speaker 4: run the numbers here, but based on the time I
Speaker 4: picked him up at school and we get to the
Speaker 4: to the hunting club, if we turn around and drive
Speaker 4: directly back, we still don't make it back home by
Speaker 4: that time. So that doesn't work. You didn't say to
Speaker 4: her like that, Yeah, pretty much, pretty much.
Speaker 3: He just heard about Roger Fell.
Speaker 4: And so well, no, I wasn't short. I just explained
Speaker 4: the math to it. I mean, it doesn't work, and
Speaker 4: ure and she she said, well, just you know, get
Speaker 4: him home soon as you can, because we got to
Speaker 4: study for some tests and things. And I said, well,
Speaker 4: as soon as I can, it's fine, but you got
Speaker 4: to understand soon as I can may not be acceptable.
Speaker 3: So because once you get to.
Speaker 4: The farm and you get loaded up and you're putting
Speaker 4: out feed and stuff, you got I mean, you got
Speaker 4: to finish the job.
Speaker 3: You can't just stop halfway.
Speaker 4: You know. So you know, it's raining, and we're busy,
Speaker 4: and we accomplish a few things, and you know, before
Speaker 4: we know what, we're trimming a few limbs and making
Speaker 4: a few trails, and then you know, the day kind
Speaker 4: of gets away from you, and uh we start looking
Speaker 4: at the clock and we're like, boy, it's gonna be bad.
Speaker 4: We get home, it's gonna be right at bedtime. And
Speaker 4: uh know, I'm a nod conformist, and uh.
Speaker 3: You'd been hurt, so you were lashing out everybody.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, right, and uh, so, you know, we uh
Speaker 4: we start on the way home, and I tell Hunter,
Speaker 4: I said, you know, uh, I said, you're gonna you're
Speaker 4: you're learning a lot about being a young man, and
Speaker 4: one of the one of the things you will learn
Speaker 4: is if mama ain't happy, nobody's happy. And we we
Speaker 4: try to make sure mama's happy. I mean, we really
Speaker 4: we go out of our way to make sure mama's
Speaker 4: Why not within reason. I mean, there's a limbit all
Speaker 4: I can do. It's just like Roger Feeder. I can't
Speaker 4: go make Roger come to the to the event, you know.
Speaker 4: I mean, I just can't do that.
Speaker 3: So uh, you'll try.
Speaker 4: I mean we'll we will set the table and we'll
Speaker 4: invite him, but I can't make him physically come. I
Speaker 4: mean that's against international law.
Speaker 3: Right. You can lead to the court, but you can't
Speaker 3: make him blood. Right.
Speaker 4: So I told Hunter, I said, you know, we're gonna
Speaker 4: have to call mom on the way in and try
Speaker 4: to douse the fires because we're gonna be in trouble
Speaker 4: for being late. But I said, the good news is
Speaker 4: it's not your fault. It's me because you can't drive.
Speaker 3: It's on me. It's on daddy all the way.
Speaker 4: I will take the fire on this, okay, But I said,
Speaker 4: you can help me out. We're gonna call mom on
Speaker 4: the way in, and I want you just to say
Speaker 4: to her, tell her how much you love her and
Speaker 4: the fact that you want to do good in your
Speaker 4: school work. But the boys needed some bonding time. And
Speaker 4: he practiced it, had it, had it down pretty well.
Speaker 4: So on the way home, we're call in and I
Speaker 4: hand the phone to him. He delivers the lines.
Speaker 3: Perfectly, just like we practice. Well done.
Speaker 4: And then he got that look on his face and
Speaker 4: he said okay, and he just kind of hung the
Speaker 4: phone up and handed it back to me, and I said,
Speaker 4: I said, you all right? What did she say? And
Speaker 4: he said, she said, well, since we like to have
Speaker 4: bonding time, we can bond a lot when we're sitting
Speaker 4: up doing homework tonight. Oh boy, And he just had
Speaker 4: that look like he could just cry on his face, right,
Speaker 4: And I know that feeling preaching, yeah, And he said,
Speaker 4: he said, she's pretty good with those comebacks. And I said, hone,
Speaker 4: I know that I've been hearing those comebacks for, you know,
Speaker 4: a lot longer than you've been around.
Speaker 3: Years.
Speaker 4: Yes, about twenty two plus.
Speaker 3: How was it when you know it was? It was?
Speaker 4: There was happiness and then yet there was some sternness
Speaker 4: there about, you know, carrying son off and loafing all
Speaker 4: afternoon inst to doing homework. But I'm still like, you know,
Speaker 4: we do homework three hours every night. I mean birthdays tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Come on, give me a break.
Speaker 5: You know said you stay up all night with him?
Speaker 4: Uh not as as long as we needed to. I'm
Speaker 4: sure the scores today will not be.
Speaker 3: Up to par. How about that? That will be on me.
Speaker 3: I I just have to take the I know how
Speaker 3: that feels.
Speaker 4: The scores today are on me. And I apologize to Hunter,
Speaker 4: his mother and his teacher right that I was irresponsible yesterday.
Speaker 4: But you know what, we had fun.
Speaker 3: You always pick up back your credit.
Speaker 4: Don't want Yeah, do like Rick go cut the teacher's
Speaker 4: grass or something.
Speaker 3: Maybe I could teach him as an uncle that that's right.
Speaker 3: Oh that's the way you get around here. Every birthday,
Speaker 3: Hunter Bus, Hunter Bus, we love you, big man, pretaking Bubba.
Speaker 3: All right, So a quick trip to the beach this
Speaker 3: past weekend. So we were there. First of all, I
Speaker 3: want to talk about how Florida is involving COVID nineteen. Uh,
Speaker 3: and speedy, you can back the substance you were there
Speaker 3: not long ago either. It really is just I mean
Speaker 3: you literally can go through five people and three of
Speaker 3: them are not concerned about it in the least, uh,
Speaker 3: until one of them will be somewhat concerned. The other
Speaker 3: one will be acting like it's the end of time. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and it's all there, and there's no consistence to it whatsoever.
Speaker 3: You know, you have somebody wait on your table with
Speaker 3: a mask on. Next time guy walks up, Yeah, I
Speaker 3: had no mask and so and then some places seem
Speaker 3: to be working on the tables being far apart of
Speaker 3: the places. Yeah, it's so, it's uh. The so what
Speaker 3: I noticed was you don't even know what to do
Speaker 3: with it. So I just said, you know what, we're
Speaker 3: gonna whatever environment we end up in. So I go
Speaker 3: into places on the beach, on the streets, bicycles this, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, this is the thing here for for COVID
Speaker 3: nineteen and then you know how they have letters on
Speaker 3: the different gates to get on the beach. We would
Speaker 3: like for our residents that are staying in this particular location,
Speaker 3: the one we were in, We want you to enter
Speaker 3: by gate H, and we want you to exit by
Speaker 3: gate G. Okay, well that's just us, is everybody. You're
Speaker 3: telling everybody else just because guess what people do. You
Speaker 3: may have a gate that's your better gate, but people
Speaker 3: might enter by any of the game. Yeah. I look
Speaker 3: up and sure he's like, oh wow, do we have
Speaker 3: to walk allway down here block again little beach? I said,
Speaker 3: apparently not if you look at Gate G. I said,
Speaker 3: if you look at Gate G that's supposed to be
Speaker 3: the exit gate, there's people just rolling down it as
Speaker 3: hard as they can go. I said, you know what,
Speaker 3: we ain't gonna play that game. I mean, if nobody's
Speaker 3: doing it, then what does it matter? Right, So so
Speaker 3: we you know, it's all just we prefer. But then
Speaker 3: these are vacationers who are like, you know what, we're
Speaker 3: doing the best we can with all this. And to
Speaker 3: tell you one thing, you notice people want to get
Speaker 3: out of their house they gotta go to I asked them,
Speaker 3: I said, is the business down here booming?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: They're like, oh, unbelievable. I mean people are coming back
Speaker 3: and just so ready to get here. So we start out.
Speaker 3: You know the boys are trying to avoid Mama's annual
Speaker 3: bike ride because they know in two weeks. In two weeks,
Speaker 3: we're actually going down to the beach for a week,
Speaker 3: which leads to the funniest story of the weekend. Come
Speaker 3: up here in just a big family Yeah, the big
Speaker 3: family time. So we're just down there. So the boys
Speaker 3: are almost saying, Mama, don't do it to us this week,
Speaker 3: this way. Yeah. And what was beautiful because the forecast
Speaker 3: was so unpredictable. It could be clear and dry one
Speaker 3: moment raining the next. So I was able to use
Speaker 3: that about the bike ride that I wish I could
Speaker 3: have gone on. Man, I tell you what I was
Speaker 3: really well. I've been working out on that peloton. I
Speaker 3: was ready to take that bike all the way down
Speaker 3: from one end to thirty eight to the other. I
Speaker 3: was gonna do the whole run, letter go and then
Speaker 3: share go rid, I said, but we can't look at
Speaker 3: that forecast. Can't get caught the ring. That's right, man.
Speaker 4: If I have a gus front.
Speaker 3: If it wasn't for Kristin Bowl or whatever you call it,
Speaker 3: I'd be rolling miles on this thing.
Speaker 4: Maybe even refer to some videos you've seen of bikers
Speaker 4: being blown over by gus front.
Speaker 3: Yeah, coming through. I'd love to do it, honey today,
Speaker 3: I'm ready. Peloton's got me ready. I could go the
Speaker 3: other end of this thing with forecasts, so I said,
Speaker 3: And we can't do it when whole family comes down
Speaker 3: because we don't have responsibilities with other people and all that.
Speaker 3: So mom and Daddy come and go look after them.
Speaker 3: But anyway, so so the boys, they literally did like
Speaker 3: a five minute bike ride. So finally Sherry taught me
Speaker 3: into the first day, we made them actually get up
Speaker 3: and let's have breakfast at a time, and of course
Speaker 3: that that was met with such boo birds. Oh and
Speaker 3: so the next day I said, I don't care when
Speaker 3: they get up, let's just go do her own thing.
Speaker 3: On Sunday, I said, and we will take a bike ride,
Speaker 3: but you know we can't go as far forecast. So
Speaker 3: keep in mind, I've been at the place where it's
Speaker 3: packed with people, nobody has a mask on, nobody's social distancing, distancing,
Speaker 3: nothing's going on. So then we start rolling on the box.
Speaker 3: And of course then Cherry says, I really I need
Speaker 3: to go there. And this is when you know you've
Speaker 3: had children. I need to potty. I'm like honey, our kids,
Speaker 3: our youngest ones, like nineteen, we can drop the potty. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean I need to potty, honey. We don't have
Speaker 3: to say that anymore. So. So anyway, so we see
Speaker 3: this place, beautiful store. There's nobody in it, not one
Speaker 3: person except for the people who work there who are
Speaker 3: wearing masks. Two people in there with masks, and it's
Speaker 3: big place, really big. So so Sherry rolls in and
Speaker 3: she talks to someone who is reasonable, and they said, well,
Speaker 3: there's really nobody in here, so yeah, if you're in trouble,
Speaker 3: you go ahead and use the bath that much. Well,
Speaker 3: then that goes to the little cute woman that everybody locks.
Speaker 3: And then big beard walks in. Uh. And of course
Speaker 3: I've been on the box. I'm sweating profusely. Uh uh.
Speaker 3: You know I look like I could be problematic. You know,
Speaker 3: really you want to go over behind the register, you know,
Speaker 3: what's this cup to? Yeah, so I walk in like
Speaker 3: I'm going to do the same thing. Now there's no
Speaker 3: one in the store. Okay, mask guy comes after you.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, sir, our bathrooms are not available. I said,
Speaker 3: oh okay, I just uh And then I thought, well,
Speaker 3: I don't want to those share under the bus. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you don't get the woman in trouble that let her
Speaker 3: go the bathroom. So I said, COVID scare And he's like, yes,
Speaker 3: it's because of COVID, Sir, are you familiar with COVID? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I am. I said, I got to tell you about
Speaker 3: about three miles where I just came from. Don't nobody
Speaker 3: care about it? You know what I mean? And uh?
Speaker 3: And I said, so I got news for you. I
Speaker 3: know you're protecting this place that has nobody in it.
Speaker 3: You already see up there where people want to hang.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? I said, if I can,
Speaker 3: I got news for you, buddy. Me walking in here
Speaker 3: to this bathroom is meaningless, meaningless. And I said, so
Speaker 3: you think you think one person going in there with
Speaker 3: nobody in here problematic? That's our rule, sir. COVID nineteen
Speaker 3: And I thought to myself, you need to be somewhere else.
Speaker 3: You're in Florida, man, You know what I mean? I mean,
Speaker 3: you do you know what's going on here? Are you
Speaker 3: really going to stick by this? Right? He here? Try
Speaker 3: to sell all your products, you beach wearing all that
Speaker 3: in here. It's not gonna work. You act like this,
Speaker 3: you know, I no wonder you're empty. You know where
Speaker 3: people are going to places that don't act like you.
Speaker 3: That's why you ain't got anybody it. And I didn't
Speaker 3: sell that.
Speaker 5: I didn't say no, you're telling them off in your mind.
Speaker 3: Hey, my bed, My bad. You know what I mean, Hey,
Speaker 3: my bad, Sorry about that. Thank you with you with
Speaker 3: your COVID mask on. Thank you for keeping us straight.
Speaker 3: Appreciate you. No wonder nobody's here. And this is not
Speaker 3: the way you're going to sell product based on what
Speaker 3: everybody else is doing up and down thirty eight. So
Speaker 3: then we do a little ride. We get back, so
Speaker 3: we're gonna go to our favorite restaurant in the whole
Speaker 3: wide world there and so we love it every time.
Speaker 3: Now it's it's it's from one end of this county
Speaker 3: road all the way to the other end. Well, where
Speaker 3: we're going to be in a couple of weeks is
Speaker 3: all the way to the other end of where we are.
Speaker 3: So I said, hey, we're not far from the house
Speaker 3: that we're renting for the extended family. Let's let's take
Speaker 3: a look at it. We're finishing, let's just go take
Speaker 3: a look at it. Okay. She was like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: but I said, we're just gonna look at it. I
Speaker 3: want to know where it is. You know how we are. No, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I want to have my plan. I want to know
Speaker 3: where it is. I want I want to know if it's complicated,
Speaker 3: I want to know the situation to get a feel
Speaker 3: for Yeah, I want, I want, I need, I gotta know.
Speaker 3: I gotta I can't be this close to it and
Speaker 3: not check it out. Well, I want to go back
Speaker 3: up to one of the communities there. I'm like, honey,
Speaker 3: we have time, but we'll probably look at We're one
Speaker 3: point four miles from it, and so and then we
Speaker 3: come out because of the rain and everything, she decides
Speaker 3: she's gonna drive. I've been driving the whole time. Oh boy.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, I'm good. And I said, here it is. Hey,
Speaker 3: we're not far keep no no no no, no go left,
Speaker 3: go left, let left, go the other way. So we're going.
Speaker 3: And so we're going, and so it turns out that
Speaker 3: it's it's a driveway all the way up to the
Speaker 3: road we're on. I mean, that's the driveway to the house.
Speaker 3: Now you got to be looking two hundred feet three
Speaker 3: hundred feet right right here. And so so when she
Speaker 3: turns in. When you turn in, you don't think for
Speaker 3: a minute, well people are staking this right okay. And
Speaker 3: I thought we would be able to be from afar.
Speaker 3: Have a look at it. Oh, look at there. We're
Speaker 3: in there. We're in there. I mean we're in the driveway. Okay.
Speaker 3: It's so. I was like, okay, all right behind their car,
Speaker 3: I see, I see where it is too. I'll sit
Speaker 3: in from the back. Mom and dad. Somebody's coming out.
Speaker 3: And I said, honey, go ahead, go ahead and backs
Speaker 3: out here. So she starts back in. Yeah, I said, honey, honey, honey, honey,
Speaker 3: backs out here. I'll hey, honey, you all over this
Speaker 3: bush over here, You all over this bush. And she's like, well,
Speaker 3: if you were quit talking to him, quit hollered at me.
Speaker 3: I'm not hollering at you, honey, you all over this bush.
Speaker 3: You're you're knocking down a bush that is part of
Speaker 3: the landscaping here. Well, I pull up, honey, use the
Speaker 3: camera to put the line. Just line up the driveway.
Speaker 3: Will you quit hollered at me. I'm not mom, Mom,
Speaker 3: they're coming out, mother, they're hollering at us. I said,
Speaker 3: you've got to get out. I don't know whether we
Speaker 3: should flee or try to tell him we're no danger.
Speaker 3: I'm getting out of here. So then she does a
Speaker 3: three turn. Honey, you're now, you're you're off, You're she's
Speaker 3: getting over driving the Honey, you are in the yard.
Speaker 7: Dad.
Speaker 3: People are hollering at us. This person is literally hollering honey,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, I'm like, just gun it,
Speaker 3: just get out of here, Just get out of here, honey,
Speaker 3: get out here. Why are you turning there almost to
Speaker 3: the car now? Dad? This woman is honestly yelling it up,
Speaker 3: And I'm like, hey, we're no danger. You don't know
Speaker 3: what to do, so you didn't want to deal with him,
Speaker 3: you just stay here? Next way, what I should have
Speaker 3: done is just got out and said, hey, we're saw,
Speaker 3: but I don't know what you thought you could get.
Speaker 3: You remember the garn history.
Speaker 4: Ain't that much just say we're long gets past a
Speaker 4: certain point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know the Garnet story, like that time he
Speaker 3: hid from people come in to look at his house
Speaker 3: when he was selling, and he's like, once you're head,
Speaker 3: you're you've committed to the idea. So once I got
Speaker 3: once I got in the flea mode. So I want
Speaker 3: people to know if you saw a sweet lady with
Speaker 3: her very large bearded husband and a small car coming
Speaker 3: in your driveway, we did. We did tell one of
Speaker 3: the bushes, and we did jump off in the landscaping
Speaker 3: in the yard for a minute, hopefully in the rain.
Speaker 3: We didn't make too big a mess, no doubt we were.
Speaker 3: We were of noah, no danger. And uh, how long
Speaker 3: do you think it took us before I was spoken
Speaker 3: to again? Oh if if, if you had, if you hadn't
Speaker 3: just started, if you hadn't started hollering at me and
Speaker 3: getting on me and tell me what to do.
Speaker 4: Honey, I'm gonna say Montgomery coming home.
Speaker 3: Did y'all finally just throw gravel on them and get on?
Speaker 2: We did?
Speaker 3: We just fled. Stay at it, Dad, I really think
Speaker 3: you maybe should have talked to these people. They may
Speaker 3: be called the police to it. We'll be back on.
Speaker 2: Ricking Bubba, ricking bubba.
Speaker 3: Looking back over the week, and one thing I would
Speaker 3: like to talk about those of you that go to
Speaker 3: the beaches. You know there's always the warning flags, the
Speaker 3: warning flags, different flags. Every day we were there. We
Speaker 3: had great weather, We had yellow flag, purple flag, purple
Speaker 3: flag if I could. Whoever's in charge of this, we
Speaker 3: need more information. Uh, we got to have more than
Speaker 3: just marine life. That's that's a very broad statement, right
Speaker 3: it is. What does that mean? Does that mean jellyfish?
Speaker 3: Does that mean? Does that mean little fish that come up?
Speaker 3: And I mean sharks? I really like to know that
Speaker 3: they do. They put a purple flag up just for
Speaker 3: little fish. It nibble ast you.
Speaker 4: To me, purple means something in the water bad.
Speaker 3: Apparently not because we had no jellyfish, whether we had
Speaker 3: no sharks that we that we saw and all we
Speaker 3: had were some fish in the water, schools of fish,
Speaker 3: which led to another moment that my wife revealed again
Speaker 3: that if it gets down to it, she will leave me.
Speaker 3: You remember I told you this. This This was early on.
Speaker 3: We hadn't been very very long at all. We went
Speaker 3: to that client trip that time to Caddo. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: and we were snorkeling and I think it turned out
Speaker 3: to be a giant grouper. You know how they can
Speaker 3: get really really big. Yeah, one of those moved through.
Speaker 3: I didn't see it. She did, and her fins were
Speaker 3: popping me in the face. Knocking my snorkel out as
Speaker 3: she pushed me under to get to the boat. And
Speaker 3: when she got in the boat, I looked at it.
Speaker 3: I said, what's happened. She says, there's a giant fish
Speaker 3: in there, and I said, what you left me? And
Speaker 3: then she goes, well, I had to get in the boat.
Speaker 3: And so we're going out one of the earlier mornings
Speaker 3: out there when it's kind of calm and the water's clear,
Speaker 3: and the gulf is beautiful, and we're getting in the
Speaker 3: water and we're having a good time and we're talking.
Speaker 3: It's just the two of us out there on the beach,
Speaker 3: and you know, you can see the little fish here,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, this big dark mass starts
Speaker 3: moving and Cheery screams, runs out and gets on the
Speaker 3: beach and leaves me in the water again. I said, well,
Speaker 3: nothing's changed me marry twenty one years and another has changed,
Speaker 3: and she goes, I'm sorry, I mean I can't. I said, honey,
Speaker 3: it's just a school of bigger fish, that's all this is.
Speaker 3: It's a big school of bigger fish. There's why would
Speaker 3: you see a black mass? You got to get out
Speaker 3: of the water. But if you see that, honey, say hey, husband,
Speaker 3: would you like to leave the water with me? Would
Speaker 3: you would you like to get the safety bene with me?
Speaker 4: By definition, a purple flag means dangerous marine life, something
Speaker 4: you need to get out of the water. Here's what
Speaker 4: I don't under there.
Speaker 3: There's nothing there.
Speaker 7: I don't think. I don't think sharks. I could be wrong,
Speaker 7: but according to what I've been reading, I don't think
Speaker 7: sharks are included in the purple I got there all morning.
Speaker 7: I don't know if they have their warning, but it
Speaker 7: doesn't mention sharks in there. It says man of war,
Speaker 7: jellyfish a variety, and then it says blue buttons, which
Speaker 7: is also a type of jellyfish, and sea nettles. It
Speaker 7: doesn't say you would think it would say if it's
Speaker 7: list out those, you would think it would say sharks.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm sure that this time there's probably so many sharks.
Speaker 4: At various times they'd wear the rope out trying to
Speaker 4: put up and take down the flag.
Speaker 3: Well, that's exactly You're right where we were. Whatever they
Speaker 3: were warning us about on marine life, we never encountered. Okay,
Speaker 3: because none of those things you mentioned. We're in the water.
Speaker 3: I mean, we didn't. We weren't in there a lot
Speaker 3: when they were a good bit them. So then you
Speaker 3: get into your plan with the big group. You have
Speaker 3: to get into We're going to attempt to eat out
Speaker 3: one night. Okay, what time do you go? Whoa you
Speaker 3: gotta be there? Five boy?
Speaker 4: I let my family pick their going time one time,
Speaker 4: and after we'd sit there about an hour, they thought, well,
Speaker 4: at four o'clock leaving time's not so bad after all.
Speaker 3: Is it. Yeah? Two moments with the big group, beach picture,
Speaker 3: which I'll get to, and going out. We had a
Speaker 3: couple of things. One of them was very smooth. It
Speaker 3: was very smooth, and I appreciate the person I just
Speaker 3: called the place we wanted to go. I said, let's
Speaker 3: talk about a group of fourteen now. Once they stopped laughing, okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: And I said, uh, talk to me, and I'm going
Speaker 3: to give this to all of you that go to
Speaker 3: the beaches or whatever. This is it that I didn't
Speaker 3: know that I did. I would have had this backward
Speaker 3: and they and they saved us. This was July third.
Speaker 3: He said, do not come tonight, no way. We said,
Speaker 3: no matter when you come, Okay, come tomorrow night I said,
Speaker 3: fourth of July. He said, believe it or not, that's
Speaker 3: our slowest. Not We'll see you with no problem. I said,
Speaker 3: you're slow on fourth of July. He said absolutely.
Speaker 4: People are probably eating close to where they're staying, getting.
Speaker 3: Ready for firework. I said, yes, so fourth of July
Speaker 3: is the best day to go sight seeing. And I
Speaker 3: can see that because you want to cook out and
Speaker 3: hang out. Yeah, I see that. Yeah, so so and
Speaker 3: so that did that worked out fine? Okay, Well then
Speaker 3: we started. You know, you you grow tired a little
Speaker 3: bit to some degree, you grow tired of the seafood.
Speaker 3: You're always eating fish. And we had a we had
Speaker 3: a low country boil at the at the house, which
Speaker 3: was great. I mixed it up one night and did
Speaker 3: the hamburgers. Minor controversy there when Mom and Greg got
Speaker 3: into it over where they won't get the meat from
Speaker 3: and uh and and Greg. Greg won, which I didn't
Speaker 3: think was possible, you know, because it's you. It's hard
Speaker 3: to win against mom. Now keep in mind mom. You know,
Speaker 3: like I said, my mom missed it a great opportunity
Speaker 3: to be Jewish. But okay, because her her, she she does.
Speaker 3: Mom guilt is as good as anybody. Well, I guess
Speaker 3: I've just been overruled. Well, it doesn't matter, it doesn't
Speaker 3: matter where we go. Just you know, I guess I
Speaker 3: guess what, it doesn't matter what. You know. I thought
Speaker 3: we should have done that, but I'm not in charge,
Speaker 3: you know, you know, and so so you know you
Speaker 3: have you have that a little bit. So they got
Speaker 3: into she non Dallas. She claimed that Greg told her
Speaker 3: not to get meat from where we were gonna get
Speaker 3: the meat from. Well, Greg, you said that that that's
Speaker 3: not that there's something in that meat. And Greg's like, Mom,
Speaker 3: I never I don't remember. No. Now, what I'm saying
Speaker 3: is they don't cut the meat there. Okay, but but
Speaker 3: it's closest and we're going to get the other stuff there.
Speaker 3: I think we're okay, we're only talking about hamburgers here,
Speaker 3: so I can find you know, some ninety three percent
Speaker 3: percent leaning there. Well, I guess I've just been overruled
Speaker 3: and so so so anyway, so we got that done,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, And all that went smooth.
Speaker 3: And you know, of course now they'll cut the gas
Speaker 3: off to the grill there at the beach house. Kind
Speaker 3: of hard to find where it was turned on, but
Speaker 3: I found it okay, so I thought it was propane tank.
Speaker 3: It wasn't. But but we worked all that out. So
Speaker 3: we got it going and went on the road and
Speaker 3: all that went fine. So then came this weird moment.
Speaker 3: There is an Asian restaurant near where we are and
Speaker 3: it gets rave reviews. I mean people. Some people say
Speaker 3: it was the best meal they had the whole time
Speaker 3: they were there. Now, so I started thinking about that,
Speaker 3: and I thought that was kind of odd. But so
Speaker 3: we decided that we would go there at five on
Speaker 3: the nose when it opens. And it said it was
Speaker 3: open for lunch every day, but that didn't seem to
Speaker 3: be consistent either, and it was.
Speaker 4: It didn't open till five.
Speaker 3: Well it was. It was interesting. So we go in
Speaker 3: and here comes the big fourteen. Okay, no one's there.
Speaker 3: There's no one at the restaurant, not one person. Okay,
Speaker 3: we're first, and I say, we'd like a can we
Speaker 3: get fourteen? I said, we'll go two different tables, that's fine. No,
Speaker 3: you have so many cool And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I know, I just but there's there's no one here.
Speaker 3: Oh I don't I don't think. I don't know. No,
Speaker 3: I don't think so so so no, no, no too.
Speaker 3: And I thought, gosh, they found out about Greg, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. And I thought, something's happened. Are
Speaker 3: they made they know about the show? Maybe how about this? Finally, finally,
Speaker 3: this is their turn to get me back, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean. And I'm like, I'm I'm you're not
Speaker 3: having no reservation And I said, oh, I'm sorry, you'll
Speaker 3: have to have reservations. Well I had checked and it
Speaker 3: just said opens it five or if you want to
Speaker 3: get a reservation, right, because most of these kinds of
Speaker 3: places that operate say we don't do reservations. You just
Speaker 3: come here and yeah, good good luck to you, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Yeah, first gun first.
Speaker 3: And I said, well, there's there's not anybody here, no you,
Speaker 3: And then they then another person comes out. Can I
Speaker 3: help you? Yeah? We table fourteen, let me see and
Speaker 3: they go in. They come back. No, we can't know, okay,
Speaker 3: And now dad shuffling, you start doing this thing of
Speaker 3: hands like this, how come we can't sit down? Well Dad?
Speaker 3: Then Dally, they don't. He's talking loud enough for them,
Speaker 3: of course. Uh well, hey, I mean you know, and
Speaker 3: I can't say all the things, you know. I mean,
Speaker 3: there's tables everywhere. Let's let's sit down. And now kids
Speaker 3: are getting in chair say dad, no, no, you don't
Speaker 3: you no, you had too many. And I'm like, well,
Speaker 3: but but there's no one here, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: Do you find yourself talking Asian bad?
Speaker 3: I did? One time? I said, well, we don't have
Speaker 3: a revvation. I call you saying no my ravation, you know,
Speaker 3: and so you no, you can't. No, you'll come back tomorrow.
Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, what tomorrow? Like same time, you know
Speaker 3: we open for lunch tomorrow. Okay, y'all want to try
Speaker 3: to do this for lunch. And I don't know what
Speaker 3: we're gonna do. Now, you'll know, you'll go you had
Speaker 3: too many, You'll go okay. And I thought, gosh, they
Speaker 3: remember you and me from the buffett. We don't know
Speaker 3: we had not fish for everybody? Too many and.
Speaker 4: Go back outside and come in groups before.
Speaker 3: Yeah, then we started wandering. They run out of food,
Speaker 3: you know, they see I don't know, and you got
Speaker 3: some of these boise every big so mine. I'm like,
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry. I really didn't know this was that
Speaker 3: big of a I apologize you know, we're not far from here.
Speaker 3: We'll come back. So then we get out the next day.
Speaker 3: So they really didn't let you know, you'll go, you
Speaker 3: go something, No, I see you all you eat? You
Speaker 3: take them, somebody get ice cream something. But by the way,
Speaker 3: we were in heaven our house. You could walk to
Speaker 3: an ice cream place and what kind was every kind?
Speaker 3: I mean a billion flavors. It was just a mom
Speaker 3: and pop supremer again and it was fantastic. We must
Speaker 3: it was you know what I said. It was like
Speaker 3: being on a cruise ship. Just go get icecreap and
Speaker 3: it was seem to be able to open it all
Speaker 3: the time and they'd actually serve you.
Speaker 4: So anyway, so was it hand dem yes, will they
Speaker 4: roll it up?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, in a single scoop.
Speaker 4: Like a double Oh yeah, they put one in there
Speaker 4: just to have a good base.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So this is when it got weirder. It clearly
Speaker 3: says open for lunch every day, eleven thirty to two thirty.
Speaker 3: Clearly says that Monday through Friday. So we get out,
Speaker 3: we ride the box and she says, I tell well,
Speaker 3: let's go, let's just hit that for lunch. Okay, we
Speaker 3: go up. There's nobody there. I mean during the lunchtime,
Speaker 3: and on and on the door. We opened to day
Speaker 3: at five, no lunch, and I thought, my gosh, our
Speaker 3: family has caused no one to Bible. Didn't hear anymore.
Speaker 3: They've shut the whole place now, you know. It's like
Speaker 3: it just all of a sudden, it just wasn't open.
Speaker 3: And it was the weirdest experience. And so then the
Speaker 3: next night we get there and I kid you not,
Speaker 3: it was four fifty eight. Okay. First again, first of all,
Speaker 3: they said, we put you down to my reservation. You'll
Speaker 3: come back. Okay, we call you, We call you, makes
Speaker 3: your reservation good. But they never called us, and we
Speaker 3: kept calling and no one would ever answer. You don't
Speaker 3: like that, you leave message we call back, you know,
Speaker 3: and so we never could get it. So we show up.
Speaker 3: I kid you not, the first person we encountered you early.
Speaker 3: We're like, it's four fifty eight. I mean this is
Speaker 3: not really early. No, you're your reservation not to a five. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I got you. I mean, if we'll just talk another second,
Speaker 3: I think we're there.
Speaker 5: You know what I mean.
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, by the time you get a
Speaker 4: handful of menus.
Speaker 3: What's the weirdness experience? None, you don't call so early?
Speaker 3: Not really, that's not that early. But yeah, what times
Speaker 3: on are you in it?
Speaker 4: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: This is this central time, right, I mean right? But
Speaker 3: but then we eventually sat down and the meal was fantastic.
Speaker 3: It was wonderful food. Did you eat too much?
Speaker 4: Do you want my act go?
Speaker 3: We don't have no more other people watch time threw that.
Speaker 2: Ricking bubba, ricking bubba.
Speaker 4: There's very few things to me that is that is
Speaker 4: better than an early morning ride on a lake before
Speaker 4: everybody else, when glass out there and you know, if
Speaker 4: you if you jet ski any and you you got
Speaker 4: a little age about you, and you know some of
Speaker 4: you backs not what it used to be. The smoothness
Speaker 4: of that early morning is just unbelievable. I mean, you
Speaker 4: cruising at fifty, you know, just checking everything out.
Speaker 3: You cover a lot of groundloth oh b before back,
Speaker 3: before everybody stopped water skiing. That's my favorite time to
Speaker 3: water ski was late afternoon. It was glass.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, that is wonderful. So this weekend I
Speaker 4: got out early and was checking everything out and the
Speaker 4: weather had started to change. We we've had the tropical
Speaker 4: storm Sindy coming through, which was putting all this tropical
Speaker 4: air on us, and then over the weekend it just
Speaker 4: kind of magically changed and we got on the other
Speaker 4: side of it and the cool layer started coming. I mean,
Speaker 4: we're gonna have like loads in the fifties this week,
Speaker 4: which is incredible. So we're out there. I'm out there
Speaker 4: riding and it's just me and God and the sunrise,
Speaker 4: you know, has just come up, and cause you know,
Speaker 4: you can't legally ride before the sun comes out, So
Speaker 4: we're out there. I'm out there and just enjoy it.
Speaker 4: And I'm coming back in and I know that the
Speaker 4: family will be getting up before long and we'll eat
Speaker 4: breakfast and all that. I have to get out and
Speaker 4: do something because I wake up early. Yes, so I
Speaker 4: don't wake you aboud, it is the bottom line. But
Speaker 4: I'm coming in on a jet ski and I come
Speaker 4: in and I have to make kind of like a
Speaker 4: turn like a j to line up to get on
Speaker 4: the easy porch, you know, the little lily pad looking
Speaker 4: thing hop up on. And as I'm making that turn
Speaker 4: to come around, I notice the other jet ski there.
Speaker 4: See do In this case, the kids had been riding them,
Speaker 4: and I thought, the kids have left a rope on
Speaker 4: that thing. I see it dangling off the back of it,
Speaker 4: and as I keep looking at it, I noticed the
Speaker 4: rope disappears into the jet ski.
Speaker 3: You got an issue?
Speaker 4: But we had this happened last year and it was
Speaker 4: two tone ye kind of brown, and I thought, well,
Speaker 4: well there we got a Sydney alert here old no shoulders.
Speaker 4: Oh no, so now I have.
Speaker 3: To dot Sydney's.
Speaker 4: Code named Sydney, Sydney, Sydney. We say that around the kids.
Speaker 4: Hey got a Sitney here. So now I have to
Speaker 4: dock next to a jet ski that has a snake
Speaker 4: in it. And I'm not happy about that, Rick, You know,
Speaker 4: I'm not happy at all.
Speaker 5: Are you wondering if there's one that when you're sitting
Speaker 5: on Yeah, I'm thinking.
Speaker 4: So I circle a little bit to try to get it,
Speaker 4: you know, visual of where he is looking for somewhere
Speaker 4: else to park. Yeah, yeah, I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 3: So finally, finally, yeah, I finally realized I'm probably gonna
Speaker 3: have to go ahead and park on this.
Speaker 4: So buddy, I hit that lily pad, that easy port
Speaker 4: probably a little hotter than you normally would I come
Speaker 4: over the handle of oars.
Speaker 3: But now you don't know where this snake is.
Speaker 4: Well, I know, you know the nozzle on the back
Speaker 4: where those things are. It went up. It didn't go
Speaker 4: in the nozzle, but it went up in there around it.
Speaker 4: Not up hundred, but up in there.
Speaker 3: And I thought, good.
Speaker 4: Night, you can't have I have this beautiful ride in
Speaker 4: the morning, and there's there's Satan's little hand puppet waiting
Speaker 4: on me when I get back.
Speaker 3: He won't let you enjoy nothing. So I mean, but
Speaker 3: now there's that uncouple of times the first time I
Speaker 3: go there and sit on that other.
Speaker 4: Than where well, yeah, well, I know I can't just
Speaker 4: leave it like no, because because I'm not gonna put
Speaker 4: a cover on it, my hand ain't going down around that.
Speaker 3: And you can't shoot it because you're shooting the sead.
Speaker 4: It's it's a bit of a handle.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: So I sit and watched it for a little whak
Speaker 4: and thinking it might come back out, and I never did,
Speaker 4: so I had to go in and take a pit stop,
Speaker 4: and I alerted a couple of my neighbors who who
Speaker 4: were very close by up early, and now one of
Speaker 4: them and I won't use any names here to protect
Speaker 4: the innocent. One of them is kind of a good snake,
Speaker 4: bad snake kind of guy, and the other one is
Speaker 4: like me, all snakes must die. So, you know, well,
Speaker 4: we got together out there and and congregated, and we're
Speaker 4: we're all sitting there kind of looking at the back
Speaker 4: of the jet skid, and all of a sudden, one
Speaker 4: of them says, I see it's head, say that, and
Speaker 4: I'm looking.
Speaker 3: I go, I don't see it.
Speaker 4: The head was coming out of the other one, the
Speaker 4: one I had been driving, And I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, you got snakes all in your water vehicle, snake flag.
Speaker 3: I'm like, what is going on here?
Speaker 4: Now? We can tell by seeing its head that it
Speaker 4: is not a poisonous snake, doesn't have water snake care Rick, absolutely,
Speaker 4: I don't care. But I'm like, how were we gonna
Speaker 4: get this thing off of here?
Speaker 3: So I did.
Speaker 4: One of my neighbors, the good snake bad snake guy,
Speaker 4: does happen to have snake boots there, which, silly me,
Speaker 4: I didn't have any.
Speaker 3: To ride jet skis with.
Speaker 4: I usually don't ride jet skis with boots now, so
Speaker 4: he very bravely agrees that he will take that jet
Speaker 4: ski out because I'd call the guy to marina. I said, Hey,
Speaker 4: if I got a snake up in here, what's the
Speaker 4: best way to get it out? He said, just get
Speaker 4: it out there and run it real fast.
Speaker 3: They'll get out of it. They'll fall out. I go
Speaker 3: fall out, Oh my god, fall out?
Speaker 4: Are you kidding?
Speaker 3: What if he decides he wants the son with me
Speaker 3: up on to day, Well, well, if he's coming out
Speaker 3: of there, he'll want to get up on there and
Speaker 3: get out of trouble.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too, But it's just it's.
Speaker 3: Just non polentnight briar scratches. Now.
Speaker 4: So, my my good snake, bad snake neighbor with his
Speaker 4: snake boots Patrick, who you know I've been telling me
Speaker 4: should come take a ride, decided this was a good
Speaker 4: time to take one.
Speaker 3: Let's say it's also a time you let somebody.
Speaker 4: And about the time he started getting it off here,
Speaker 4: he comes out of there, you know, to get it,
Speaker 4: and my other neighbor, you know, was able to remove
Speaker 4: him and get rid of him.
Speaker 3: Right while you watched all this.
Speaker 4: I was managing here on top of a table. I
Speaker 4: was in a management position on top of a picnic table. Yes,
Speaker 4: with a whole the.
Speaker 3: Screaming Bubby you of all people know though, that means
Speaker 3: that area is attractive.
Speaker 4: To Oh, I know, I know, Well you're going to
Speaker 4: have that around the lake, you know, time to time, Bubba.
Speaker 4: If you I think good snake, bad snake, neighbors letting
Speaker 4: too many of them get away?
Speaker 3: You know, of course he is because we call ours
Speaker 3: on our side. Well, and this was on your property,
Speaker 3: so it goes under your ruling, not the good snake
Speaker 3: bass names.
Speaker 4: Well, if it's in my stuff, it definitely does. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So uh, you know, I appreciate both of my neighbors
Speaker 4: help with removing that, you know. And it turned out
Speaker 4: it wasn't a giant snake by any stretch. It may
Speaker 4: have been you know, eighteen inches or something worm Uh.
Speaker 4: And I think as we as as we identified it,
Speaker 4: you know, a about thirty foot away. Uh, it appeared
Speaker 4: to be a northern water snake or some type. I
Speaker 4: don't know, but but I want to be clear. Jet
Speaker 4: Ski is not an apartment. Do not be setting up
Speaker 4: shop now. The thing that did bother me though, is
Speaker 4: that it was in the one that I had been on,
Speaker 4: not the one I saw it. And I really think
Speaker 4: the one that I saw was bigger than that one
Speaker 4: to begin with. But now you know, anytime you see
Speaker 4: a snake, they're bigger than you. You know when you
Speaker 4: first see it, you know. Well, but what I'm let
Speaker 4: me say, when they catch you off guard?
Speaker 3: Right right? What I'm thinking those you may just saw
Speaker 3: the kids, Well that's what I was killed a teenager.
Speaker 4: I know Mama was around there somewhere.
Speaker 3: Mama still in that other one?
Speaker 6: Has it given you the he b gbs that that
Speaker 6: you might have been riding around with one underneath you?
Speaker 3: Well, what if you had? What if that thing would
Speaker 3: have crawled out on you?
Speaker 4: That's oh, I have to give the abandoned ship call.
Speaker 3: Would you just jump?
Speaker 4: I would have slowed down and then jumped.
Speaker 3: Now, I would have probably fought with it to begin it.
Speaker 4: If I knew it wasn't poisonous, I'd probably fight with
Speaker 4: it and try to stomp it for a minute. And
Speaker 4: then now if it had that old triangle head, I'm
Speaker 4: out of there. I'm doing a swan dive on top
Speaker 4: of that thing.
Speaker 3: And then it dives in with you.
Speaker 4: Now, yeah, what am I gonna do? Well?
Speaker 3: You gotta now, huh, you don't get in the water
Speaker 3: with it.
Speaker 4: No drive that thing over a cliff somewhere.
Speaker 3: That's way. You gotta take it right off the dam. Oh,
Speaker 3: I thought, shit, I just.
Speaker 4: Burned this thing.
Speaker 3: You know says no fire bell.
Speaker 4: So now every time ride button on there in the
Speaker 4: countdown starting, who's.
Speaker 5: Gonna check this under the seat every time you ride it?
Speaker 4: Now I need to tear that thing apart, just to
Speaker 4: be sure they ain't set up housekeeping in there. I
Speaker 4: didn't want to look really, to be honestly.
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