You are about to be trampled underfoot. One time. It's a funny thing.
The manager reached out and said, hey man. Well, no he
didn't. He didn't say, hey man, get back to work. He
didn't do that. But he saw me. I don't know if he had
seen me before, and he said, hey man, you want a job?
And I was like, oh, no, thanks man, I'm okay.
A few years back, and uh, it's a funny thing. Yeah,
it's almost like home home. People might be my calling. Hi,
I'm Mark, and we're two guys from different decades, different backgrounds, and
on the opposite sides of the continent, discussing life, the universe and everything.
What's the show about? About an hour trampled underfoot. I don't know
how I feel about social media anymore. Okay, Yeah, you'd think that
you'd have pleasant encounters and whatnot and just you know, but we have the
advent of keyboard warriors out there, and yeah, and keyboard warriors with attached
with Facebook. I mean, so I post a simple freaking comment, right
mind you. I said something to the effect of it's hot here. It's
hotter than than one could bear here in Miami. Um, and in fact,
it's hot. Then we have these macho man Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan
people I'm not gonna name their names. Um, but like there's this whole
I am always as like, look, I don't have to like the tit
for tat that people get into, like like, guys, I could play
the game as good as anybody else, but I don't have a need to
prove like here, like let's say here on Trampled under Foot podcast, I
don't have any need to be extra macho in order to prove it. I'm
more macho then I'm I call myself the duke. I'm more macho than you.
And it's like, you know, and so these people, you know,
a couple of buddies by the way, I know it's all ingest and
good fun, but just saying the underlying sort of um message is like take
it like a chap, you know. And so it's like they're saying,
well, over here in my area, it's one degree hotter than yours.
Oh no, but my in my area, And then you get the little
klingons adding their little comments and it's like a pylon. Dude, I'm like,
give me a break. You used to have to walk to school uphill
both ways, you know, yeah, yeah, so this uber macho man,
I've never felt eat. Look, even in school, I could tell
those kind of people. And by the way, I'm not trying to this
is, but I could tell kids, you know, and and guys in
general, this is a guy thing, is it is? It's a guy
thing? Is. I could always tell, and I could see them a
mile away, especially with like they'll come up to you and they'll they'll sort
of offer a question and you could tell, right like people under We've mentioned
this before, but people don't. They judge how they judge, but they
don't know that the other person might be aware of so much more than they
could possibly understand at any given moment, you know what I'm saying, Like,
I'm aware when I see it coming at me, believe it or not.
I don't know if it's a human trait. It might very well be
that it's been evolving through millennia. But I could see it coming. Whether
I choose to attack on it in a certain way or not is because of
my particular sort of but I could be as destructive as the next person in
comments and whatnot, but I choose not to. Oh, Yeah, it's
the anonymity of the keyboard that makes people you know, I call it keyboard
muscles, you know, flexing their keyboard muscles. It's that anonymity that and
it's something about it. It happens to me too, and I think it
happens to everybody, to be honest, to one degree or another. It's
that anonymity of a keyboard. You will sit there and you will type things
that you wouldn't dream of saying to somebody face to face. Yeah, you
know, when you're just sitting there playing the dozen with your friends and just
you know, cutting each other down, I mean to the bone. There
are some things you just don't say. There are some things that are still
kind of off limits. There are things that are off limits. But I'm
gonna tell you something. There's an actual procedure. And it's like, Okay,
it's like, I don't know, if you've ever seen in the African
savannah, those mutual of omaha, you know things. Yeah, and now
we see the apes gathering around the wounded ape, and you'd say, oh,
they're about to help the wounded ape. And now they begin to club,
yeah, you know, ripping apart and now and they're all laughing jolly,
you know, and so it's like you're thinking to yourself, well,
crap, you know. So the thing that I you have your little your
little um tag on apes that come around, so they're seeing that you're getting
trampled, no pun intended. And then they'll come round the corner and they'll
say, oh, we're gonna get our ours in. So I just wanted
to share that just because I found it funny um earlier on. And and
we're all guilty of everything because we're all human beings, and you know,
what the heck you know? But uh yeah, but isn't it weird how
social media has retrained us, you know, and we do it to ourselves.
We let it happen. It's retrained us. We don't censor ourselves.
We're less civil to one another. We're always looking to get that little jab
in, you know, even if it's you know, it's all in fun,
like you said, it's all in jest, but somebody has to try
to come out on top. Oh yeah, that's that's law. Oh that's
law, Mark, and and then and that's what I mean. We say
things on social media that we would never say if the person was standing right
next to us. Well yeah, but it's it's weird how we do that.
A lot of guys like to try to flex their intelligence and say,
oh, well, you did that all wrong. You know, you should
have done this, that and the other, and it's like, dude,
you do it. Look you know I just did so, so look exactly
and and and we all do it to a certain degree in this and that,
and I guess it's part of of how how how we are, you
know, just as the apes the males of the of the tribes and stuff.
But I'll give you another example of a thing. Because sometimes you're not
looking for trouble. Look, I understand when you're when you you dig at
some like when you're you need to get shut down. And if you do
get shut down, you deserve it, Like I get that. But if
you're not looking for trouble and people are coming after your guys, then you
know, it's kind of like, okay, what's this all about. So
I was working in the Everglades and it's full of tough guys or you know,
quote unquote tough guys because their woodsman evergladesman gladesmen and whatnot. And you
know, I'm a dude from Sweetwater and I start working over there and stuff.
There was there was a one incident where we're sitting in the back of
that area where we worked and there's a bunch of people. They're drinking beers.
I'm hanging out after work, and they're taking chains and using a tree
trunk to lift an engine up out of a car that they needed to lift
the engine out of. And they were doing this whole procedure, and I
was like checking it out because I had never seen something like that. It
looked ridiculous to me because all I can see is that it was a thick
branch but um but branch less, and yet they were doing it. So
to me, I'm watching and this guy says, you know, I asked
a question that shows that I don't know what's going on in the particulars of
it. But I asked a question right which I felt. I didn't feel
any like, Oh, if I asked a question, they're going to find
out that I don't know the exact procedure. I don't give a crap.
I'm asking a question that I'm not thinking in those terms at all, but
I guess some people are. And the guy says, oh no, well
this is, this is, and that you don't know anything about cars,
man, you don't know this is And he was ragging on me. And
I had another friend, my friend Less, sitting next to me, and
Les was one experienced guy. He was a good friend of mine, and
he's sitting there listening, and this guy's ragging on me that I don't know
this and this I don't know. I don't know, and I am not
a person that I didn't think in those terms what the guy was telling me.
Yeah, because the engine this, you don't know this and that and
what's happening here is this and that, and I just I just came back
at him. I said, well, yeah, I don't know much about
these cars, but I bet you've never played a Blues progression in the key
of em. And the guy freaking like the guy he shut his mouth.
Yeah. I mean, you know, everybody's ignorant to a certain point,
and you know, it's funny that we still think that we have to prove
ourselves like that. Yeah, and we have to be better to somebody.
Oh, well, you don't know what you're talking about because of this,
this, this, this and this. Okay, well maybe you know more
than I do about that. But how about this over here? I just
don't get that. I just don't get that, you know. But there's
also well I get it a little bit. I think what that does is
cover some covers up some insecurity, you know, make themselves feel better because
they're just there's something there. They just got to feel superior to somebody else.
There's there's some insecurity there. I think. Well, there's another issue
amongst the male the apes of the tribe. There's the issue with females.
I remember a friend that any time there was a new female in the vicinity
across the savannah, we see a new female arrive and now all the chimps
are are standing upright and their their chest pumping. Well, every time there
was a new I would get word around, you know, as you go
around the mountain as it were, that that guy would say, Oh,
no, Eloy's not going to this party, or no, he's not gonna
be here, or no like it was always Eloy, no oh no,
nah, no elok no nook nah nah. What was this thing with you?
Man? Well, I'm giving you all the all the all the parts
of the things that I learned. Um throughout history. It's not like a
current. This is more into the team era. Well that's what I mean.
What was this guy's thing with you? Well, he just wanted to
the obvious thing. He wanted to lower probability of failure. Okay, yeah,
you eliminate competition. Yeah, he was eliminating. And this is a
This was a good friend of mine at the time. But he said,
hey, budd, in his mind he calculates, is you know what,
that's one too many? Yeah, eliminate competition. I don't know, man,
I'm not that competitive by nature, and like you, I'm not a
violent guy. I can count the number of fights I've been in probably on
one hand because I don't fight fair and I don't believe that there are any
rules. Well, there's no need to if you think about it. It's
like, you know, my dad always used to love one particular scene,
and I remember because he'd sit in bed and he'd cackle when he'd watched.
He'd be like he like he loved the scene. And it was Indiana Jones
and the what was it? And the one with the first one Indiana Jones
Arc. It was the scene in Raiders of the Lost Arc and he loved.
Like, that's one thing I can remember certain things from my old man,
and that's one of those things that the concept of him laughing at that
scene and why he was laughing at it. And it's a scene when Indiana
Jones is trying to get on the plane but this big Moroccan guy or whatever
with a big sort of sword is fighting him, and like, you know,
Indiana Jones is like, holy crap, now what because this guy's like
five times his size. Well, Indiana Jones pulls out a gun and shoots
him and he goes down, and my dad at that very moment, he's
like cracking up because you know, my dad did like military service and secret
stuff too, which we've talked about. And he's not he wasn't a tall
guy, right, but he carried a gun, so to him it was
it was funny. I know the scene you're talking about, and interesting that
you bring this up. That's my favorite scene in that movie too. It's
one of my favorite scenes. It's such a good man. The guy comes,
he comes whipping out a scimitar and he's spinning it around and doing this,
that and the other, and he stands there and he goes and Indiana,
pulls out the pistol and just shoots him. It turns around and walks
away. You know, funny part about that scene is that was ad libbed.
There was supposed to be a big old long fight scene. Oh that
was man, and just you know, Harrison Ford just reached it, just
reached over and pulled out his pistol and shot, you know, and they
decided, oh, we gotta keep this in. So they just kind of
scrapped a scene and that's what came in. It was movie magic. Uh
huh on so many levels. It's very It's Quinneth Central Americana. In my
opinion, Oh you're big. Sorry, I'm not gonna work. Bam.
Well, I take that back. That was not They went back and they
choreographed the scene and reshot it. But the first time he because there was
no blank loaded, it was just an empty prop pistol in his but he
pulled it out and went bang like that, and they just everybody just died
laughing, and they said, oh, we gotta do that. It's because
it's perfect. Because it was. It was excellent. But later on in
another movie, it was two guys came out in white outfits because the original
and the original movie the guy was wearing black and he had a red sash
and a red band around his turbine or something like that. Well in the
in in a later movie, two guys came out. They were in white,
and they're swinging around scimitars and stuff like that, and he reaches down
for his pistol and it wasn't there. It had dropped out of the pistol,
out of the holster, and it's like a crap. You turn around
and he ran. I think I remember that. Yeah, so it was
a callback to that gag. Yeah, they played on that trampled underfoot.
But it's it's interesting that you brought up that movie scene about it being your
dad's favorite scene. Yea. Something that I was thinking about the other day.
I don't even remember which movie I was watching, but I was standing
by, you know, I was walking from room to room. My wife
was watching TV and some movie was on it. Remember which movie it was,
Yeah, and I had to stop because my absolute favorite scene in that
movie came up. And then that scenes over and I'm like, okay,
cool, and then I could proceed. Yeah, And that got me to
thinking about favorite movie scenes. Is there is there a scene in a movie
where you just have to stop and watch it. It's one of your favorite
scenes in the movie. There's so many. I'd have to sit that.
Boy, you threw that at me, I'd have to think about that.
Mark. I'm not that quick on the draw. But yeah, there's favorite
movies that if they if they, if I hear about it or see nowadays,
if I see it, I'll say, oh, I got to see
that again, and I know the whole movie. So there's favorite movies,
but favorite scenes I'd have to really dig in. Man. I don't mean
to uh, well no, but I mean, like, for instance,
a lot of people would come up and they'd say, oh, the shower
scene in the movie Psycho, Oh my goodness, that's horrible. Yeah,
I know it is. But if you're into the horror genre or that suspense
thriller genre, it's just that quintessential scene, you know. Steve Kneelan over
here from Harneil Media over here in the live YouTube chat, says, the
president's speech in Independence Day in the movie Independence Day, that was a pretty
cool scene as far as movie see. I'm having difficulty with scenes maybe,
I think in terms of the whole movie so I think when you said that,
I thought Fright Night as cheesy of a movie from the eighties as it
was, I could still watch it every time. So that's like one of
those movies that I could I could still watch. Yeah, I can't think
of particulars. The whole car chase scene in the movie The Blues Brothers that
that it's like a thirty minute card. Well, I'm not a thirty minute
it's probably ten minutes towards the end of the movie where it's just I mean
there's gotta be a one hundred police cars chasing them into Chicago. I've seen
that movie like two or three times in my entire life, and that car
chase scene is just probably one of the best there is. It's just hilarious.
Man. Well anyway, I just you brought it up, and uh,
I just thought it was fun. I mean, see, I think
not with using that that you're saying. I think of those funny game show
fail moments that we see on YouTube. Yeah, and so there's there's some
that I've seen already but that I'll revisit anyhow or when they come up.
I'm like, man, I love that scene that that you know, fail,
So there's one where they're doing, um Jeopardy and the lady this is
a little bit uh risque, but um so you know Jack Alex, Alex
Trebek, Alex Trebek. Yeah, so Alex Trebek comes up to the and
he starts to say hello to the fan to or to the lady. I'm
sorry. She comes up and so tell us about yourself, and she said
something to the effect that, um, oh, I just got married.
Came back from my honeymoon. She said something to the effect of it didn't
We wanted it to snow, but it didn't snow on her honeymoon, but
in in the morning we got I got seven inches, she said, I
have seen that one. I've fallen down that rabbit hole too. Yeah.
Man, there are so many different rabbit holes it's not even not even funny.
I have fallen down that rabbit hole as well. There is a new,
well new to me anyway, genre of YouTube videos now where people and
this is just silly talk about how social media has changed our life. These
people go on read it and they find stories from other people. They didn't
even write the story. People write stories about their experience with other people and
on their videos what they do is they read the story. That's all they
do. They'll read the story on video and all you see is words scrolling
up the screen and that's it. And these things are getting thousands of views.
Amazing. But some of them are actually pretty fun stories. Some of
them are kind of hokey. But you know, people get mistaken. You
know, somebody will come up and start talking to you, like you work
in a particular store or what have you. Hey, where do I find
this? I don't know. I don't work here. I'm sure you do.
Just help me out here. No, I don't work here. I
mean I'm not dressed to you know. Well I just saw you doing this
that or the other. Well, yeah, I was helping that person.
I don't work here, I don't know where that is. Don't lie to
me, and you know, just a whole bunch of stuff like that.
Yeah, it's addictive. Trampled underfoot. Have you ever been stopped at a
store or like you're in a store and you're not even wearing the fricking clothes
of the store and they ask you for like, oh, circuit, where
do we find this? This in that? Or what stores? I was
stopped knew this was when I was working as a slot machine mechanic. I
was driving a route, working on slot machines in bars and gas stations,
convenience stores, things like that. We had a uniform. It was the
old mission linen uniform. Blue pants and a blue and white pinstriped shirt with
a tag name tag on it that had the name of the company and then
my name embroidered into it. I'm wearing a baseball cap with the company logo
on it. But I also have on a two way radio, a big
belt, a big old water of keys, and I'm I was I went
into home depot to look for something. I don't remember what it was.
And I'm standing there looking down and down the aisle, and I had two
people walk up and asked me where would I find this. I'm like,
I don't know. I don't work here. And the one guy, he
looked at me, and then he looked up at my hat and he went,
oh, I'm sorry, I thought you did no problem, and off
he went. This old lady came up to me. Older lady came up
to me. She was in her sixties, and she just started she you
know, we were looking at something I don't remember, you know, now,
I need to do this, so how would I do X, Y
and Z. And I'm like, well, I'm I don't know. I'm
not a contractor. I said, I if it were me doing it,
I would probably do this, this and this, And she kind of looked
at me funny, and then she saw the hat and she says, I'm
sorry. I thought you worked here, and I said, no, I
don't. I'm real sorry. I said, well, you know, still,
if I was going to do but I would do this, this and
this, but that may or may not be the right way to go for
you. She's like, okay, well, thank you very much, young
man, and off she went. You know, find somebody who did actually
work there. That's that's the only time that I've ever been stopped and you
know, mistaken for working somewhere that I haven't I get that or I've gotten
that at home depot. And mind you, I'm not dressed. I mean,
I can't even think of how home. I know they were aprons,
yeah, orange aprons. But I've I've been stopped multiple times um at home
people in various different aisles. And you could you would, if you could
look in back into I'd be there helping the person out and they still don't
realize that I don't work there. But they'll ask a question, oh this
wax like you know, the paste wax, and say, oh, yeah,
you could, you could use that, but that can is gonna last
you a very long time, you know, and this and that, and
they have and they just keep going and it's I was even one time.
It's funny thing the manager reached out and said, hey man. Well,
no he didn't he didn't say hey man, get back to work. He
didn't do that. But he saw me. I don't know if he had
seen me before, and he said, hey man, you want a job.
And I'm like, oh, no, thanks man, I'm okay.
A few years back, and uh, it's a funny thing. Yeah,
it's almost like home deeople might be my calling mark maybe. I mean,
well, I home depot for me is about, Oh, I gotta get
on the freeway and go down to two more two towns over, but I
pass Lows on the way by. So I go into Lows and I know
that store like the back of my hand, and it's, you know,
three miles down the road from me. So I go in, I get
what I want, and I get out you know, so I don't wait,
you know, I just I put blinders on. Man, I just
I don't nothing. I don't see nobody, I don't hear nothing. I
just grab what I need and I go. So maybe that's what it is.
You know, I'm here to get what I need to get. I'm
not here to have a conversation. And then we have the situation. I
don't know why we're going into this, but I just find it absurdity or
what's the word. We'll just say absurdity for now, but there's another word
I'm thinking of that it can't quite grab from my memory banks. You know,
situations that are are weird and funky. There's a word for that.
In any event, well, surreal is they're not redundant. What's the word
ridiculous? They're definitely ridiculous. But like, man, I don't know what
it is, but I'll go when I'm shopping, and I swear to you,
when you wait in those lines, the person in front of you decides
always. I don't know if this happens in another because Miami has a particular
thing. I don't know if it's a Miami thing, but alone, but
they'll start up a conversation with the cashier, regardless that there's a fricking line
right behind you and they're sitting there and saying, you know, like oh
you have two kids, Oh my good, And I'm like, how is
that relevant to our current situation? It's people being friendly. It happens here
too, And I tell people that constantly, do never ask a store clerk
how they're doing, because they will tell you. And there's no such thing
as a short story in this valley. They will do it regardless of how
many people are waiting in the back matter, It don't matter. There are
a couple of clerks that when I see there behind the register, I will
go, you self check out because I will not get in line if they're
on the register right because you know, well, because one of them,
she will actually stop what she's doing, folder arms and talk. She's like
that sign the way, Well I'm here for eight hours, you might as
well be too, you know. But she stop what she's doing and fold
her arms and just have a conversation with the person, just you know,
and then you know, kind of scan an item or two and then you
know, talk, shake a stock of salary for emphasis or something like that,
and put it on the scale and oh yeah, well you know,
I know exactly what you mean by that. That was Yeah, that's number
thirty two O four, you know, and it's just like, what is
this a social hour or what? Oh man? You know, most of
the time I can get in and out fairly quickly, but there are like
there's there's two clerks that are local Wally World that if I see him behind
the register, nah, I'm gone, no thanks, count yeah, oh
yeah, don't have time to play. But I will start a conversation with
the guy behind me or in front of me in line. Oh yeah,
you know, if something goofy happens, I'll sure I'll talk about it.
Or how about the guy in front of your behind you that's pissed off,
maybe more than you because the line's not moving, And they'll start that conversation
and say something like can you believe this? Yeah? Can you believe these
people? Has that happened to you? Oh yeah, yeah? These are
actual things that occurred. And I'm going to tell you right now, the
main objective of that cashier is move along, move along, give me some
money, move along. Your stuff is packed. That's the that's their prerogative.
Not and the in between stuff that's like the human stuff. I understand
that, but other people got to get out of there too, trampled underfoot.
But my father was a retail clerk for years and years, I mean
he worked grocery business most of his life. So I can see the boredom
and the tedium from the other side, because you know, you got an
endless parade of people coming and going, and if all you do is run
stuff over a scanner, you're basically a machine. You're there because they haven't
developed a machine that will grab an artichoke, wag it and punch in the
right number and put it in a bag. That's why you're there. So
they have to amuse themselves somehow. He's the one that turned me onto the
cashier's game. And it's basically what you do is you look at the basket
in front of you or behind you, either one. But cashiers do this
all the time. They will look at the basket and try to figure out
what the person came in for and what was the impulse buy. Yeah,
they've only got a few items, you know. So you got a guy
that walks up and he puts them up on the belt and he's got,
you know, a box of wheaties, a fifth of vodka in a lawn
chair. Yeah, what did you come into the store for and what was
the impulse by Which of these items do not fit? You know exactly?
It's like duct taping, chloroform. Oh, I don't know, man,
Should I call the cops? There are combinations of items that people buy that
do bring questions up, don't right, Yeah, exactly. You know.
I had a situation because I was a clerk at a place called Lecters.
It was a German company according to what I know, and they were they
branched all across the mirror. I know they were even on the West coast
at least in California. Lectures. Yeah, Lectors Housewares and all that.
And I was a young kid back then. We wore a red apron with
white dress up shirt and stuff. That was the whole style. Um,
it was like we were high end where housewears associates as it were. And
um, I remember there was a lot of encounters. But I remember one
encounter with a lady and I don't know what the thing, what the transaction
was, but I remember what she said and I had asked her a question,
and I remember, I'm a young kid, and she she used a
word that I had never heard before, and she did this, she goes.
I said, ma'am, would you like so and so and so and
so? And she says, oh, I'm ambivalent about it. And I'm
a young kid. And I looked at her and I stopped talking from on
and she and she and she leaned forward a little bit and I and I
looked at her, and I leaned a little bit, and she just waited
for the She waited to see me say, ma'am, what's ambivalent? What
do you mean, ma'am? Or something like that. And I didn't give
her the pleasure, and I said, oh, okay, and I just
kept doing what I kept doing. But she was She knew. She's an
older lady. She knew that she took me for a ride on that one.
Yeah. I didn't know what am, But guess what that lady taught
me the definition of ambivalent. Go look it up. Yeah, and I
haven't forgotten till this day. Are you ambivalent? Well yes and no,
but yeah. When I was sixteen years old, one of the jobs I
had was in a hardware store and I found there were three types of customers
we had. One was the guy who knew exactly what he wanted, knew
where it was, and he went and got it and went to the register.
There was the guy or the woman who knew what they wanted but maybe
needed help finding the right aisle. Right then there was usually the woman who
had no clue what she was looking for. Ninety nine times out of a
hundred, they were in plumbing or electrical. And I always had this mental
image where you a woman comes in with a piece of paper and she's looking
for a faucet an inline valve, and she doesn't know what it is.
Her husband sent her down to get it. She has no clue where to
go. She knows it's in plumbing, that's all. I always had this
mental image of some guy in a basement holding on to a pipe spraying water,
screaming hurry up, hurry up. Yeah, yeah, that happens a
lot too. Yeah. You know, it's just like guys go to the
hardware store yourself. You know, oh just a minute, you're you know,
the ladies in line, whoever, and oh, I forgot something from
that aisle? Can I go real quick? And then the cash years yeah,
yeah, sure, and there's a long line behind and she leaves those
kinds of situations because what do you tell, I mean, the correct thing
to say. It's just it's a difficult thing for a cashier to say,
no, you can't do that, because you're gonna piss her off. Yeah,
and it you know, it's it's it is one of those things.
I mean, you know, you you're sitting there with half a basket of
groceries, and the lady from the over and the twenty items or less aisle
says, come on over here, there ain't nobody in line. Yeah,
It's like okay, fine, And the next thing you know, you've got
eleven people behind you and each one of them standing there with one thing,
and you feel like a real moron. You know. There's one last situation,
although there's more, but well, of course that you have a line
that just lit up like oh accepting. You know people here, and you'll
see all the cards aiming towards it, and you'll see people that are walk
that are pushing their cards slightly faster, and others that like me, I
don't play that game. I just if I'm far away, if I can
make it, I'm not gonna go because I just that's unbecoming. But there's
people that are accelerating, and there's some that aren't even accelerating. They're like,
they're gonna win this race. And so yeah, and so you see
the different person and it all depends on what their state is at the time.
But um, yeah, you know what, at the end of the
day, dude, we will get ours and we will trample no pun intended
to get there. Oh yeah, they don't quite break into a run,
but they get real close and and you know, if it comes down to
it, kind of lock the arms and push the card out so they knows
it in just in front of the other guy had before it, you know,
and they'd catch up to it. I see. This is something that
I don't know if you guys get, but I hate people that bump into
you. And that happens a lot in Miami. I don't know. Maybe
it's because there's not as much space, but I doubt it. Dude.
I have at least a few feet, not even one foot of personal space
that I offer other people. I do not encroach. So there's like a
little you know what I'm saying. And when you're going down the aisle,
and another person's coming down the aisle you have and they're hogging the aisle at
the supermarket. You either crash into the aisle, letting all the bottles and
stuff fall on you so that they can because they're driving like they own the
road, or you freeze stop and make them stop, which I began to
do a while back checking in the supermarket. Huh oh, yeah, I'll
cold stop because where do you want me to go? You want me to
grab the cart throw it over until the next Also you can drive by,
so cold stop and help cold stop. And we've just had a fricking Mexican
standoff and it's like, you know, and then they realize. But yeah,
I don't play that game anymore. I guess it comes with wisdom.
I'm not gonna be jumping on the aisld and being crushed up in no way.
And these are by the way, these are old ladies. Maybe the
maybe, maybe the problem is me, but I don't think so. They
are vicious, those old ladies. Oh I know. I worked in casinos
for fifteen years. I know they're vicious. Boy. You want to you
want to see a sweet little old lady turn into a combination of a Samurai
Warrior in the Abominable snow Man. Just reach out like you're gonna touch one
of her slot machines that she's playing. Oh my god, you'll draw back
up, bloody stomp. Well, because they can sit in one and play
another one, or they can play. How many they play depends on the
casino. Back when it was coin in and coin out, especially at this
one casino up in Reno, you'd have an you'd have one woman playing a
whole row of eight or ten machines, just walking down the aisle putting coins
in them and pulling the handles and coming back to And I mean, should
a woman on a mission? Man, And if you walk up and you
stop for any length of time, I'm playing that machine. Oh okay,
off you go. Well, good luck to her. Yeah. They are
territorial, and they defend their territory. I'm here to tell you. Oh
man, Well, I worked the casino too, so I know a little
bit about that. So I did see that, just at that extreme.
And I mean, so long as they're putting I mean they're buying hundred dollars
racks of silver coins, of silver dollar coins, so so long as they're
keep dropping them in the machines casino, lets them get lets them do it.
They don't care about the guy that walks up and puts two or three
bucks in. They want the people who keep feeding those machines. Boy.
Oh yeah, that was an eye opening career Trampled Underfoot. So what else
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