I'll pass this information on to the Red Flame Catering folks. They may
want to know if the same rowdies are going to show up at the salt flats.
Fore warned is fore armed ... or something to that effect.
Question; was the cook skinny or fat? You know the saying "NEVER TRUST A
SKINNY CHEF?"
Wes
on 10/3/01 8:37 PM, john backus at 34ford@msn.com wrote:
> Okay, I'll tell all........ I was going to anyway when I had time from workin'
> and fixin' the street rod fuel problem/s. First I just have to thank all the
> Maxton folks , John Beckett, Joe Timney, especially Lionel Williams and Keith
> Turk. Also all the folk who cook, clean up the track arrange for services and
> do all the paperwork. We came back with an upgraded license to "C", a record
> and a smile on this old face that nothing can wipe off!!!! These folks know
> how to show you a good time in town after the races too. It all started for me
> with Lionel telling me his plans to eat at a BBQ place next to their motel.
> Seems everyone else decided this was a good idea so 7:30 was decided on to
> meet and eat there. Bobbie (lovely wife) and I arrived first and arranged for
> a large table for 20 or more. Folks started arriving, the folks from G.B, Grib
> and Missus Grib, Keith, Brad, even the motorcycle racers.
> The waitress said it won't take long for our food 'cause it's all fixed in
> back already and just needs to be "plated and brung out" (this is the South
> you know). We believed her because over half the menu was crossed out and you
> had little choice of food. Everyone ordered from the half of the menu that
> they had stuff for. Sure 'nuff food started coming out via busboy types and
> several waitresses, they would ask who ordered pork and fries, no one answered
> because no one ordered pork and fries and there was much confusion until the
> waitress happened to mention that most of the half of the menu that they were
> supposed to have, they didn't. It almost started to make sense then, we were
> to take what they brought or or not get fed there that night. They never did
> bring out what 4 people ordered- 1 LB of pork with a side of whatever. This
> didn't set well with most people, especially the 4 with no food. Finally, the
> cooks came out after the waitress failed to make anything happen and the final
> 4 got something to eat. About that time, a tall skinny cop came in and said he
> needed to talk to Brad (he was closest to the door) and to come outside, Keith
> quickly followed with me coming out a few minutes later. The cops said they
> got a call that a rowdy bunch was throwing food at the waitresses and refusing
> to pay. First off there was little food to throw and we easterners don't throw
> food we're too civilized. It all ended with several of the Laurenburg 16
> outside arguing with the manager and trying to reason with the police I used
> my "I'm a retired cop and know what you deal with" routine but it had little
> effect- the cops told the manager to ask us to leave, which
> he did and the cops gave us 5 minutes or we would go to the pokey. I left,
> don't have to be told twice. The owner of the property and the motel said next
> week the really rowdy NASCAR bunch will be there and he would buy them some
> beer before sending them over there. Don't worry about not eating there it
> will be a chili parlor in about a month or so.
>
> John & Bobbie #15 and 16
>
> ps Lionel never did show up- he said someone told him a bunch of drunks were
> starting a fight or something....... not really, someone told him they were
> out of food.
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