I JUST Preached About Quitting! #smh

Disclaimer: This post is EXTREMELY exaggerated!  I'm not judging you, so don't judge me.  I just happen to call it how I see it. 

This morning Cricket and myself had to work in Gaffney, SC.  Pause: Here's a little geography lesson.  We both stay in Spartanburg, but we work in Greenville.  And I tend to get North and South confused sometimes, but for the sake of my story, I will just pick one.  *shrug* Greenville is South of Spartanburg and Gaffney is North.  Play: So we have to get up SUPER early to go to Greenville to get the van, drive ALL the way back through Spartanburg and keep mosying (?) along to Gaffney.  Work starts at 7:00am and we must be set up by 6:30am.  So, we leave Spartanburg at 4:30 in the morning!  Early?  Uhhh... YEA!  And you would think we would stop complaining cause we used to it.  NO!  Because we do these things called The 107.3 Jamz Traffic Jam.  These are only TWO hours.  So, think about getting up that early to work for TWO hours!  Would you do it?  Probably not.  But...  we get paid per event, not by the hour. lol...  Thank GOD! 

But I say that to say sometimes getting up that early, and us, it's not always a good mix.  Kinda like a huge bowl of cereal and only a little bit of milk.  #fail.  (You could add some water.  But you ever added too much water?  And now your cereal taste like milk of magnesia.)  But seriously, when getting up that early, EVERYTHING needs to run smoothly.  It's harder to troubleshoot a problem when you're sleepy.  Nobody is thinking straight yet. 

Perfect example, Saturday before my show, one of my co-workers (*cough* Rita P) picked up the WRONG broadcasting device.  I had to RUN back to get it.  Keep in mind, I'm NOT an athlete.  And it shows.  Not paying attention, still sleepy, I grab what we needed and run towards the door that cleary said, "PUSH".  But to my surprise, the B*&^% was LOCKED!  #BOOM!  My hands were full, so I hit the door nose first and body second.  "SSSSSHHHHHHIIIIIITTTTTTTT..."  I started coughing.  And I have no clue why.  Pause: Does anybody else do that?  Like if you bang your elbow, do you randomly let out two quick coughs?  BOOM!  *cough, cough*  lightbulb!  I know why!  Especially, if you do it at work.  We will look for ANY reason to SUE a M F-er!  *hoodrat voice* "I banged my elbow on a desk that wasn't even supposed to be that close to the wall.  And it is soooo stuffy in here, I have this irritating cough AND... I almost slipped last week on a puddle!  I can't work like this!"  WWWWWHHHAAATTTT?  Play: My nose was bleeding and swollen, but I had a show to do!  So, head up, hold your nose.  And get OVER it!  "I'm Outchea Grinding"!

Back to this morning: We were set up at the Bagel Shop in Gaffney.  The nicest people in the WORLD!  The milk chocolate lady is a Zumba instructor and everything.  Real cool.  But for soooommmmeee reason, stuff didn't seem quite right.  We were supposed to be there from 7am-9am.  But twenty minutes after being there, the lady comes outside with a hand full of stuff and heads straight to her car.  To our surprise... They QUIT!  No bs!  They quit!  Right then and there!  "I'm done.  I can't work like this.  I put up with this for too long."

WHOA!  What's going on?  Cricket and myself are confused!  And I'm thinking it was sexual harrassment or somebody tried to rob the place or the power went out.  But noooo... They ran out of Cream Cheese.  I'm not a bagel guy.  But apparantly not having cream cheese on a bagel is a CRIME.  Like seriously, shortly after they flip the Open sign OFF and are standing outside arguing, the Police come.  One cop goes to the lady and one cop heads towards us... Uh oh...
"Hello officer". 
"Son, don't speak unless you are spoken too".
(Gasps)
"When you all arrived today, did you go inside of the store at all"?
"Yessa..."
"So, did you see any cream cheese at that time"?
"Uhhh... Nossa... I don't think so".
"Ohhh... You don't THINK so? *motions for other officer to come over*  I think we got it. We're going to have to search your vehicle son".
"Th- The Jamz Van"????
"Yes..." 
And at this point and time, I flipped!  I f-in FLIPPED!  "Listen brother!"  Pause: Ever noticed how white people say "brother" to us?  I wonder if it's cool to say it to them?  Ummm... guess NOT.  Because the officer said, "I had enough of your mouth and tone.  Turn around".  And I'm thinking there's a bug on my shirt or something, but NO!  I got arrested for saying, "brother".  Now Cricket's crying and I'm in the back of the Squad car with the mobile broadcasting device talking on the radio.  CRAZY... 

But the friendly people at Waffle House welcomed us with open arms when I got out back on the streets.  *Gucci Mane voice* I "Started off my day with a... WAFFLE!"  Big ups to our friends at Waffle House, 924 Hyatt Street, Gaffney, SC. With all that went on, we still had a GREAT time!






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