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00:01:30.440 Today's guest is that midday meal maiden.

00:01:35.200 She's that belly-filling bad girl between breakfast and dinner.

00:01:40.060 A lunch lady.

00:01:41.300 That's right.

00:01:42.300 Out of Cleveland, Ohio.

00:01:44.360 She's been in the game more than 31 years.

00:01:47.100 We're going to learn about all of it.

00:01:49.400 The lunch, the children, the lifestyle.

00:01:54.080 We want to thank all of the lunch ladies that reached out and who we spoke with.

00:01:59.100 And we are so grateful to have one in studio today.

00:02:02.440 Lunch lady, Melissa Ansel.

00:02:05.040 Shine that light on me

00:02:08.680 I'll sit and tell you my stories

00:02:14.660 Shine on me

00:02:19.360 And I will find a song

00:02:23.600 I've been singing

00:02:24.780 Lunch lady, Melissa.

00:02:34.500 How are you?

00:02:35.220 I'm doing great.

00:02:36.620 Yeah.

00:02:37.220 Yeah.

00:02:37.860 You feel good?

00:02:38.740 Oh, yeah.

00:02:39.420 I flew for the first time today.

00:02:41.280 So.

00:02:41.580 Did you really?

00:02:42.180 Yes.

00:02:42.820 I've never flown in my life

00:02:44.140 And I said I'd never get on a plane

00:02:45.680 So, thank you.

00:02:47.660 And you changed it all up, huh?

00:02:49.220 I changed it all up

00:02:50.360 In the last couple days, yeah.

00:02:52.740 I've been feeling I'm going to pee a lot

00:02:53.900 But that's all.

00:02:54.940 Really?

00:02:55.780 Yeah, because I'm nervous.

00:02:57.180 Oh, nerves, you think?

00:02:58.100 Yeah, just nerves, yeah.

00:02:58.840 I didn't know if you meant like

00:02:59.560 Because of the altitude or something?

00:03:00.960 Oh, no, no.

00:03:01.480 Just because I was nervous

00:03:02.360 Because I was doing something, so.

00:03:04.240 Oh, yeah?

00:03:04.820 Wow.

00:03:05.680 Really?

00:03:06.120 So it's been a while?

00:03:07.020 Oh, a while.

00:03:07.880 I've never flown.

00:03:08.560 What's the highest you've ever been up then?

00:03:10.320 On a building or something?

00:03:11.160 On a slide?

00:03:11.840 Oh, yeah.

00:03:12.560 Maybe a slide or, you know,

00:03:14.120 Rollercoaster or something.

00:03:16.540 Gosh.

00:03:17.360 I know, right?

00:03:18.460 And was it nerve-wracking?

00:03:20.360 You know, it wasn't as bad, I guess,

00:03:22.700 As what I thought.

00:03:24.580 But, yeah, you know,

00:03:26.960 I had to take a pill

00:03:27.780 Just calm myself down, you know.

00:03:30.600 Oh, yeah.

00:03:31.160 I've popped a couple of pills

00:03:32.160 Just to get through a tough episode

00:03:33.380 Of Cops before.

00:03:34.180 Well, you know, I mean,

00:03:35.380 This is true.

00:03:38.560 You know?

00:03:39.400 Yeah.

00:03:40.240 So, but thank you for coming in.

00:03:42.200 No, thank you so much.

00:03:42.940 This was awesome.

00:03:44.080 Thank you for having me.

00:03:45.340 Yeah, you're very welcome.

00:03:46.580 And, yeah, we just, you know,

00:03:48.280 Everybody has had lunch ladies

00:03:50.240 In their lives.

00:03:50.680 Oh, yeah.

00:03:51.520 You know, I mean,

00:03:52.640 A lot of children, really,

00:03:54.220 It goes from, like, breastfed

00:03:55.940 To bottle-fed

00:03:57.020 To being fed by a woman, like,

00:04:00.360 Kind of vaguely covered in plastic,

00:04:02.300 You know?

00:04:02.620 Right.

00:04:02.800 And so, it's kind of like,

00:04:07.220 You know, it's almost mom's

00:04:08.960 Third breast in a way.

00:04:10.360 It's like, you're that next liaison

00:04:13.140 To sustenance for a child, you know?

00:04:15.560 True, true.

00:04:16.440 How did you get into the game?

00:04:17.940 How did you get into it?

00:04:19.100 Well, you know, I mean,

00:04:20.080 I kind of fell into it, you know?

00:04:21.740 I graduated, got pregnant,

00:04:24.620 Needed a job, and there I was.

00:04:28.760 And then it worked out really good.

00:04:30.900 Yeah.

00:04:31.440 Okay, so let's just go back.

00:04:32.440 So, you graduated from what?

00:04:33.900 I graduated from high school.

00:04:35.100 Okay, you graduated from high school.

00:04:36.300 And where are you?

00:04:36.980 What part of the nation are you in?

00:04:38.560 Oh, I'm in from Cleveland, Ohio.

00:04:41.420 Okay, so you're from Ohio.

00:04:43.000 And you graduate from high school.

00:04:44.840 And then you get knocked up by a man.

00:04:47.180 Sure.

00:04:49.080 You know?

00:04:50.200 And then I didn't really want the man that much.

00:04:53.280 So, then I moved out.

00:04:54.660 Oh, you moved out.

00:04:55.420 So, you separated.

00:04:56.060 But how did that,

00:04:56.500 So, how do you go from there?

00:04:57.820 How did somebody go from getting knocked up by a guy?

00:05:00.080 I kind of wanted to.

00:05:01.860 To, you know, feed in children.

00:05:03.900 Yeah.

00:05:04.200 I guess actually easily.

00:05:05.240 Well, you know, I fell into the job.

00:05:07.020 But when I started to do it,

00:05:09.440 I was like, I really like it.

00:05:11.360 And I had, and my son,

00:05:13.020 then he started going to school there, you know?

00:05:15.120 Oh, okay.

00:05:15.600 So, he got to stay when I was off.

00:05:17.820 He was off.

00:05:18.400 So, it was so much easier to, you know,

00:05:21.400 follow with him, you know?

00:05:22.920 Oh, that's kind of perfect, huh?

00:05:24.080 Oh, it was perfect.

00:05:25.020 Like, oh, yeah.

00:05:26.240 That was awesome.

00:05:27.020 So, we would have the summers off if I wanted to,

00:05:29.940 or, you know, whenever the holidays.

00:05:31.520 I didn't have to look for a babysitter, you know?

00:05:33.240 Oh, that's pretty magical, huh?

00:05:34.660 Yeah.

00:05:35.080 And how did you actually,

00:05:36.280 who got you the job there?

00:05:38.320 Oh, I just went down to,

00:05:39.840 overseeing lunch.

00:05:40.280 I went down to the Board of Education,

00:05:42.380 looked around, got some jobs,

00:05:43.840 and then I just slowly, like, moved up

00:05:45.340 because I've been there so long, you know?

00:05:47.520 Oh, they move you.

00:05:48.300 So, there's different, is there different?

00:05:49.840 Yeah, there's kind of, like, different positions.

00:05:51.480 Like, you'd start out, like,

00:05:52.640 the really kind of the lunch lady.

00:05:54.980 Then you, like, move up to the general prep,

00:05:58.500 then the cook, then the manager,

00:06:00.340 things like that, you know?

00:06:01.100 Okay.

00:06:02.800 Okay, so you're in Cleveland.

00:06:04.460 You have a child.

00:06:06.440 Now you start lunch lady-ing at the school

00:06:08.780 where your child is.

00:06:10.720 And so, take me through, like,

00:06:11.520 a typical shift of a lunch lady.

00:06:13.520 Like, they get there.

00:06:15.060 Do you walk to school?

00:06:16.540 Do you guys carpool?

00:06:19.020 How does it work?

00:06:19.680 Well, I mean, I didn't have a car for a minute,

00:06:22.280 so when I don't have a car,

00:06:23.540 I would walk,

00:06:24.420 or sometimes somebody would pick me up.

00:06:26.640 But, I mean, I have a car now,

00:06:28.340 and we're actually in the,

00:06:29.940 we're transitioning there.

00:06:31.240 They tore my school down,

00:06:32.780 so I'm over at a swing site.

00:06:35.020 So, it's a little bit further,

00:06:36.340 not too much further,

00:06:37.380 and I drive there.

00:06:38.780 And back.

00:06:39.580 But, once I get the other one,

00:06:40.880 really, I can kind of walk down there

00:06:42.520 if I had to.

00:06:43.620 Oh, nice.

00:06:43.860 So, it's been perfect

00:06:44.740 since I also have anxiety.

00:06:46.460 I don't drive as much.

00:06:48.220 Driving's hard, huh?

00:06:49.180 I don't like the other people driving.

00:06:51.560 Yeah.

00:06:52.120 If they could just stay away from me

00:06:53.540 when I'm on the road,

00:06:54.260 I'd be cool.

00:06:54.860 Yeah, well.

00:06:57.340 Oh, yeah.

00:06:58.520 Well, yeah, I mean,

00:06:59.360 here's my thing.

00:07:00.100 I've met a lot of people, right?

00:07:02.200 Something's wrong with them.

00:07:04.500 So, all driving is,

00:07:05.700 is those people are in cars now.

00:07:07.380 Right, right.

00:07:08.060 So, it's not like they've changed suddenly

00:07:09.700 because they're in a vehicle,

00:07:10.620 something's still wrong with them.

00:07:11.860 I said, just because I'm nervous

00:07:13.020 and don't drive a lot like that,

00:07:14.640 you know, still,

00:07:15.420 them guys, you know,

00:07:16.260 phew.

00:07:16.980 Yeah.

00:07:17.520 And I live in the lower Cleveland,

00:07:19.140 so, let me just say,

00:07:20.720 some of the drivers

00:07:21.340 aren't even supposed to be in those cars.

00:07:22.920 Oh, yeah?

00:07:23.480 Yeah, because they sold them.

00:07:24.800 Oh.

00:07:24.920 Yeah, I guess, well.

00:07:29.680 Well, about 15 years ago,

00:07:30.800 I did wake up one morning

00:07:31.940 and my car got stolen out of my driveway

00:07:33.600 and I was like,

00:07:34.720 dude, where's my car?

00:07:35.940 And it really wasn't there.

00:07:38.120 But they never found it.

00:07:39.760 Oh, yeah?

00:07:40.160 Yeah, they probably took parts off it

00:07:41.980 and had a good time with it,

00:07:43.100 but I was violated.

00:07:44.680 Oh, wow.

00:07:46.220 Yeah, well.

00:07:47.240 What kind of car was it?

00:07:48.700 It was old Cutlass.

00:07:50.200 Oh, yeah.

00:07:50.720 Yeah, they wanted it bad

00:07:51.880 and they did, you know,

00:07:52.780 how those doors slammed good and stuff.

00:07:54.400 Yeah.

00:07:54.460 And look, let's say,

00:07:55.760 there's definitely

00:07:56.540 brothers love a Cutlass.

00:07:59.080 Somebody was loving it, yeah.

00:08:00.240 Yes, people's love a Cutlass.

00:08:01.960 My dad had a Delta 88

00:08:03.520 and he had a,

00:08:06.440 and he also had a Cutlass.

00:08:08.100 Bring that up.

00:08:08.760 Bring up a Cutlass.

00:08:09.660 Let's see the one

00:08:10.400 that got stolen here

00:08:11.420 from Lunch Lady Melissa.

00:08:13.700 Do you know what year

00:08:14.520 model it was, Melissa?

00:08:16.100 Oh, goodness.

00:08:16.740 I don't really remember that much.

00:08:18.740 But just ballpark it,

00:08:19.700 like 1940.

00:08:20.260 Yeah.

00:08:20.420 1940, 1990?

00:08:21.600 No, like 1990.

00:08:27.040 It kind of looked like

00:08:27.940 that white one over there.

00:08:29.700 Yeah.

00:08:30.460 Yeah, kind of like.

00:08:32.240 But the doors just shot good

00:08:34.260 and everything,

00:08:34.740 but I didn't protect it.

00:08:37.000 Should have put the club

00:08:37.880 or something on the wheel, you know?

00:08:39.020 I got the club on it right now.

00:08:40.220 I'm a beater in the driveway right now.

00:08:43.360 Do you?

00:08:43.760 Heck yeah.

00:08:44.460 Yeah, my mom puts it on all the time.

00:08:46.060 Oh, yeah.

00:08:47.260 I put it on.

00:08:48.100 I don't care.

00:08:48.960 My mom.

00:08:49.220 Now that they took it,

00:08:50.100 I'm like,

00:08:50.840 oh, this is it.

00:08:53.140 Now, if they can get past all those,

00:08:54.700 they can have it.

00:08:56.020 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:08:57.160 You've earned it, huh?

00:08:58.080 Yeah, you earned it.

00:08:58.860 Take it.

00:08:59.280 Go ahead.

00:09:01.180 Okay, so take me through

00:09:02.160 a typical shift at work.

00:09:03.260 You show up at what time

00:09:04.540 do you get over there?

00:09:05.240 Well, I get there at 7.30.

00:09:07.020 Okay.

00:09:07.400 And, you know,

00:09:08.060 we turn on all the warmers,

00:09:10.340 oven, all that stuff, you know,

00:09:12.580 start putting everything out,

00:09:14.100 make hot breakfast.

00:09:16.540 Yeah, to breakfast.

00:09:17.640 Yeah, we do a hot breakfast

00:09:19.020 and we also do a breakfast cart

00:09:21.000 so they could choose.

00:09:22.640 So, like, you know,

00:09:23.580 if I have a pancake

00:09:25.760 with a sausage in it,

00:09:27.140 they could choose a hot,

00:09:28.940 you know, their juice and milk

00:09:29.880 or they can go over to the cart

00:09:31.280 and I have, like, muffins,

00:09:33.560 blueberry muffins,

00:09:34.980 lemon bread, cereal.

00:09:36.680 Maybe apple?

00:09:37.700 Oh, all the time.

00:09:38.680 Fruits and stuff, yeah.

00:09:39.660 Yeah.

00:09:39.960 This new guy's stepping it up

00:09:41.180 with the fruit now.

00:09:43.180 Oh, yeah, they're really...

00:09:43.900 Oh, yeah, we got a new man

00:09:44.780 in charge of food service

00:09:46.880 and, yeah,

00:09:48.760 some of the kids

00:09:49.420 didn't even know

00:09:49.820 what a kiwi and stuff was

00:09:50.960 but they do now.

00:09:52.020 Oh, wow.

00:09:52.680 Yeah, it was interesting.

00:09:54.080 The other day,

00:09:54.480 I would cut them all up

00:09:55.300 and I'm like,

00:09:56.080 oh, I ain't got to worry about it,

00:09:57.160 you know,

00:09:57.400 and then I come over and look

00:09:58.320 and the kid's like,

00:09:58.920 Miss Melissa,

00:10:00.320 I ate the whole kiwi

00:10:01.060 and I'm like,

00:10:01.420 what?

00:10:01.780 Why'd you eat that fuzz?

00:10:03.280 And I was like,

00:10:04.760 oh, I didn't know

00:10:05.420 you guys didn't know that.

00:10:07.400 So, yeah,

00:10:09.680 it's crazy.

00:10:10.940 Yeah, I think.

00:10:11.780 Yeah, the first time

00:10:12.540 you get that kiwi,

00:10:13.540 you don't know how much

00:10:14.420 to have or how much

00:10:15.480 not to have, you know?

00:10:16.800 Well, I know I wouldn't

00:10:17.580 eat that outside, though.

00:10:21.020 I don't know that.

00:10:22.080 I think it depends

00:10:22.840 on what you're into,

00:10:23.820 you know?

00:10:24.160 Well, yeah, that's true.

00:10:24.940 I mean,

00:10:25.560 it's a fuzzy feeling.

00:10:27.500 Well, some people

00:10:29.500 like a little bit of,

00:10:30.640 you know, yeah.

00:10:31.460 They like a different environment.

00:10:32.900 Right, I get it.

00:10:33.320 Yeah.

00:10:34.460 Okay, so you get in there,

00:10:35.660 you got the warmers on,

00:10:36.820 do you have a team,

00:10:37.580 do you guys have a team

00:10:38.360 meeting or something?

00:10:39.600 Well, no,

00:10:40.320 I'm like,

00:10:41.240 I'm the manager or whatever,

00:10:42.840 me and Shayla Cruz,

00:10:44.500 that's my lady that cooks,

00:10:45.960 we come in together

00:10:47.180 and we do most of the work.

00:10:49.480 And that's breakfast work?

00:10:51.120 Breakfast, everything.

00:10:52.680 So breakfast comes,

00:10:53.960 some of the kids come.

00:10:54.880 How much percent of the children

00:10:56.020 come to get breakfast,

00:10:57.000 do you think?

00:10:57.260 Oh, like 460.

00:10:58.760 I'd say we have 600,

00:11:00.220 we feed a day.

00:11:01.340 So we could do

00:11:02.120 about 460 breakfast.

00:11:03.580 Wow.

00:11:03.860 So a lot of them eat.

00:11:04.820 Yeah.

00:11:05.140 A lot of them eat, yeah.

00:11:06.180 Yeah, we would get to school

00:11:07.180 for breakfast

00:11:07.560 if we got there

00:11:08.380 in enough time.

00:11:09.000 Sometimes our bus,

00:11:09.740 if it were like six minutes late.

00:11:10.380 Well, you know what?

00:11:11.040 But now, though,

00:11:11.980 we have to stay open

00:11:13.820 for if their buses are late.

00:11:16.120 Yeah, all that stuff.

00:11:17.480 So, yeah, we don't close up.

00:11:19.280 We pretty much,

00:11:19.840 kids come in sometimes

00:11:20.700 at like one in the afternoon.

00:11:23.160 Miss Melissa,

00:11:23.620 can I get breakfast?

00:11:24.360 I mean, they're eating

00:11:24.920 in two minutes,

00:11:25.920 but sure,

00:11:26.700 here's your breakfast

00:11:27.220 and your lunch.

00:11:30.440 Yeah, they don't even care.

00:11:31.620 I know, they don't care.

00:11:32.700 They don't know.

00:11:33.260 As long as they eat.

00:11:34.080 Yeah, that's how they are.

00:11:36.160 Right.

00:11:36.660 Okay, so you guys

00:11:37.640 got the breakfast done,

00:11:38.680 you shut it down.

00:11:39.580 How do you start

00:11:40.120 to transition to lunch?

00:11:41.800 Is there an opportunity

00:11:42.660 if people want to smoke

00:11:43.660 between lunch and breakfast?

00:11:45.020 Like, what is that?

00:11:45.900 Like, you guys get

00:11:46.460 a little break or anything

00:11:47.560 or do a video game

00:11:48.920 on your phone or something?

00:11:49.940 Well, I mean,

00:11:51.300 we're really busy,

00:11:52.860 so it all depends

00:11:54.340 on what we're making that day

00:11:56.220 because if it's something

00:11:57.340 like hard,

00:11:58.460 like for breakfast,

00:12:00.320 we have to do all that.

00:12:02.240 If it's just like a pancake,

00:12:03.960 we just heat it up

00:12:04.760 or something,

00:12:05.120 that's real easy.

00:12:05.900 Right.

00:12:06.080 You know what I mean?

00:12:06.560 So you got more time.

00:12:07.700 But if it's something

00:12:08.560 and I'm making sausage,

00:12:09.880 egg, cheese,

00:12:10.540 I have to put it all on one,

00:12:11.700 wrap it.

00:12:12.480 No.

00:12:12.640 I mean,

00:12:13.700 we're swinging right in,

00:12:14.720 you know.

00:12:15.000 Right.

00:12:15.520 As the kids are coming through,

00:12:16.540 we're still,

00:12:16.960 hey,

00:12:17.440 you know,

00:12:17.700 still working.

00:12:18.460 Breakfast, lunch,

00:12:19.420 whatever, brunch.

00:12:20.060 That's what I said.

00:12:20.800 Yeah.

00:12:21.120 And like when I do the turnover,

00:12:22.860 people are like,

00:12:23.680 wow.

00:12:24.460 I'm like,

00:12:25.040 move the color,

00:12:25.780 we're turning over.

00:12:27.120 Breakfast is over.

00:12:30.400 So really,

00:12:31.200 is there a hard line

00:12:32.120 where it's just like

00:12:32.760 breakfast is done?

00:12:33.460 Well,

00:12:34.060 I say that,

00:12:34.920 but I'm lying

00:12:35.600 because whenever they come in,

00:12:36.640 I'll still fill you in breakfast

00:12:37.600 even if they came in later.

00:12:38.700 So I always just tease.

00:12:40.680 You kind of draw a line

00:12:41.760 in the same way.

00:12:42.380 Well,

00:12:42.400 there should be a line.

00:12:43.140 Yeah.

00:12:43.400 To at least a limit

00:12:44.680 because I'm about to serve lunch

00:12:45.880 pretty soon.

00:12:46.340 I'll tell them,

00:12:46.820 you know,

00:12:47.160 come on now.

00:12:48.240 Yeah.

00:12:48.440 But like I said,

00:12:49.460 we're here to feed them.

00:12:50.720 And is there like a little bit

00:12:52.300 of a game plan before lunch?

00:12:53.700 How do you know

00:12:54.600 what lunch y'all are going to serve?

00:12:55.800 Does it come down

00:12:56.560 like from like a

00:12:57.500 I have a menu.

00:12:59.320 Like on a,

00:12:59.880 when does it,

00:13:00.460 and it comes like,

00:13:01.160 this is what we're serving today?

00:13:02.540 I have a menu

00:13:02.980 and then I order from the menu

00:13:04.280 for the week.

00:13:06.520 Okay.

00:13:07.060 So like,

00:13:07.580 what do you mean?

00:13:08.260 Like you have a menu?

00:13:09.220 Well,

00:13:09.640 they say on the menu,

00:13:10.720 okay,

00:13:10.980 say it's a chicken bowl.

00:13:12.460 So I know I'm going to order that.

00:13:14.500 So for five days I order

00:13:15.980 and I'll order everything for that

00:13:18.340 and everything for the salads

00:13:20.320 we're going to make for that

00:13:21.160 same day.

00:13:22.380 Oh,

00:13:22.540 so all the items that go

00:13:23.540 into those things.

00:13:24.320 Yes.

00:13:24.620 Because we have a couple

00:13:25.820 different things you choose from.

00:13:27.560 Oh.

00:13:28.260 So,

00:13:28.560 and just make sure you have

00:13:30.500 enough lunches.

00:13:32.240 Because man,

00:13:32.800 when you run out,

00:13:33.620 boy,

00:13:33.960 those kids are ready to get you

00:13:35.380 and don't run out on pizza day.

00:13:36.560 Oh man.

00:13:38.120 I was messing around once

00:13:39.380 and I,

00:13:39.740 you know,

00:13:40.140 I was talking to the kids too much

00:13:41.780 and I started burning.

00:13:42.800 So I'm like,

00:13:43.300 I'm sorry.

00:13:45.260 So they didn't like that very well,

00:13:46.880 but.

00:13:48.340 Yeah.

00:13:48.820 If you run out on pizza day,

00:13:50.080 I remember.

00:13:50.600 Oh man.

00:13:51.260 Well,

00:13:51.560 we went through a couple

00:13:52.420 different types of pizza.

00:13:53.900 I remember,

00:13:54.260 I remember there was this round.

00:13:58.840 Can you bring up the different

00:13:59.860 school pizzas that were served?

00:14:01.260 There was a round pizza

00:14:02.600 that had a great crust on it.

00:14:04.260 I remember it was really great

00:14:05.980 and people would like

00:14:06.800 see each other and be like,

00:14:08.000 Hey,

00:14:08.140 that crust is great.

00:14:09.220 Huh?

00:14:09.920 And people would be like,

00:14:10.700 yeah.

00:14:11.340 And then,

00:14:12.320 then we got to this

00:14:13.260 other square pizza

00:14:14.940 and I was like,

00:14:16.440 this ain't even barely pizza.

00:14:18.180 And that one,

00:14:20.480 people didn't really like it

00:14:21.760 as much.

00:14:22.800 And the cheese,

00:14:23.960 I think tasted different to me,

00:14:25.660 but yeah,

00:14:27.440 let's look at a couple of these.

00:14:29.080 That's one right there.

00:14:30.200 I've definitely had that one.

00:14:31.060 The one you have the cursor on

00:14:32.200 down right there.

00:14:34.040 Well,

00:14:35.720 we have like the one you got the cursor

00:14:37.160 and that's like our breakfast pizza.

00:14:39.120 Oh,

00:14:39.600 we serve that now for breakfast.

00:14:41.400 Breakfast pizza was pretty good.

00:14:42.300 They love some breakfast pizza.

00:14:43.200 Oh yeah.

00:14:43.820 Breakfast pizza was good.

00:14:45.280 Um,

00:14:45.440 we used to have a box pizza

00:14:46.580 years and years ago

00:14:47.660 and I'm talking like 30 years ago

00:14:49.340 of the kids used to really like,

00:14:50.620 but,

00:14:50.840 um,

00:14:51.580 now we're serving a stuffed crust pizza.

00:14:54.160 Ooh.

00:14:54.600 So the kids are pretty interested.

00:14:56.100 Yeah.

00:14:56.880 Like I said,

00:14:57.440 pizza day,

00:14:57.920 I hear a lot of compliments.

00:14:58.980 I look good on pizza day.

00:15:00.780 Really?

00:15:01.260 Yeah.

00:15:02.720 So there'd be a lot of flirting

00:15:04.040 and stuff on pizza day.

00:15:04.980 Pizza day.

00:15:05.520 Everybody wants pizza pizza.

00:15:06.900 Yeah.

00:15:07.320 Yeah.

00:15:07.480 Everybody want a pizza.

00:15:08.660 Oh yeah.

00:15:09.380 Baby.

00:15:10.140 Um,

00:15:10.720 so pizza is the big thing,

00:15:12.060 right?

00:15:12.820 That's the thing everybody loves the most.

00:15:14.420 That's what they love.

00:15:15.500 Well,

00:15:15.920 yeah,

00:15:16.160 there's a couple,

00:15:16.780 uh,

00:15:17.180 different things,

00:15:17.800 but following the menu,

00:15:19.080 um,

00:15:20.660 yeah.

00:15:20.820 So following the menu,

00:15:21.720 you guys,

00:15:22.280 you have your week of menu.

00:15:23.380 It's already set up in advance.

00:15:24.840 So before the previous weekend,

00:15:26.320 you got the whole week lined up the next week.

00:15:28.360 Right.

00:15:28.540 Cause I order right a week ahead.

00:15:30.200 Okay.

00:15:30.460 So I kind of have it lined up,

00:15:32.440 but things can happen.

00:15:33.460 So it's subject to change.

00:15:34.780 Really?

00:15:35.180 Oh yeah.

00:15:36.080 Especially in 2020,

00:15:36.940 you know,

00:15:37.280 when all that shortage,

00:15:39.000 I mean,

00:15:39.460 whatever they gave me was what they were in because,

00:15:42.240 you know,

00:15:42.960 they,

00:15:43.320 it was constant.

00:15:44.280 Nope.

00:15:44.500 We don't have that.

00:15:45.180 No more.

00:15:45.460 Nope.

00:15:45.800 There's were shorts of this.

00:15:47.020 Nope.

00:15:47.220 We don't.

00:15:47.540 I'm like,

00:15:47.940 Oh my gosh,

00:15:48.500 what do we feed these?

00:15:49.920 I'm about to go to the grocery store.

00:15:52.040 I need a food stamp card.

00:15:55.360 Yeah.

00:15:55.680 You got to do something.

00:15:56.660 You know,

00:15:57.080 I was like,

00:15:57.480 man,

00:15:57.660 these kids need to eat.

00:15:58.660 Yeah.

00:15:59.500 Yeah.

00:16:00.100 It's crazy sometimes,

00:16:01.360 but you're getting the lunches out to them.

00:16:03.220 You got a plan.

00:16:05.000 Does the government tell you what the children have to eat or you could make it whatever?

00:16:09.980 No,

00:16:10.220 the government kind of tells you what the kids need to have,

00:16:13.560 like how many servings of legume,

00:16:16.660 you know what I mean?

00:16:17.220 There have to be certain things.

00:16:18.820 Legumes or whatever.

00:16:19.600 Yeah.

00:16:19.920 Like,

00:16:20.340 you know,

00:16:20.620 you have to have beans on there a certain amount of times,

00:16:24.040 you know?

00:16:24.800 Yeah.

00:16:25.180 So yeah,

00:16:25.820 they kind of tell you,

00:16:27.080 but we flip it around on different things.

00:16:29.860 You know what I mean?

00:16:30.640 If I'm a short of that,

00:16:31.720 they're getting that.

00:16:32.520 Right.

00:16:32.780 I mean,

00:16:33.160 so it is what it is.

00:16:34.940 As long as they eat,

00:16:35.660 I'm happy.

00:16:36.940 Yeah.

00:16:37.300 That's my attitude too.

00:16:38.580 I can't believe children have a choice where you're at in some of their meals.

00:16:42.500 well,

00:16:42.760 this is started this year.

00:16:44.500 Um,

00:16:44.580 like I said,

00:16:44.980 this guy,

00:16:45.320 we make a chicken salad,

00:16:47.360 chef salad,

00:16:48.040 and they love the PB and J still.

00:16:50.260 You may give them a,

00:16:51.540 you know,

00:16:51.780 just a cold lunch and then whatever we're making for hot.

00:16:54.940 So they pick between whichever one they want.

00:16:57.980 And are there days where there's a real specialty item?

00:17:00.980 What's one of the spec?

00:17:01.960 Like,

00:17:02.600 is there a time of year where something like,

00:17:05.300 um,

00:17:06.120 maybe some,

00:17:07.180 um,

00:17:07.700 like,

00:17:09.260 uh,

00:17:10.200 bison meat or something or something unique,

00:17:12.400 you know,

00:17:12.620 something rare will come across that you guys give to the kids.

00:17:15.120 Or like,

00:17:15.400 um,

00:17:16.800 I guess like,

00:17:17.660 is there a time of year when y'all get the kids get something really rare?

00:17:20.840 Kind of?

00:17:21.620 No.

00:17:22.600 Um,

00:17:23.040 the,

00:17:23.460 the thing is like,

00:17:24.300 there's the kids are so like picky and there's so many that can't have this,

00:17:27.540 that they don't really go into anything odd with that.

00:17:33.100 You know what I mean?

00:17:33.660 Right.

00:17:33.940 So no,

00:17:35.700 you got to stick to the guns.

00:17:37.100 Kind of.

00:17:37.460 Yes.

00:17:37.880 Just right to it.

00:17:38.900 Yeah.

00:17:39.120 There's like not a lot of pork on the menu cause kids don't,

00:17:42.060 there's so much,

00:17:43.040 how do you say that?

00:17:45.280 Um,

00:17:46.280 religions and different things that they don't,

00:17:49.080 they don't eat this,

00:17:49.940 they don't eat that.

00:17:50.560 So you have to watch.

00:17:51.780 Okay.

00:17:52.420 And you know,

00:17:53.460 we're a bilingual school too.

00:17:54.820 We have like so many different backgrounds.

00:17:58.100 Oh,

00:17:58.340 damn.

00:17:58.760 So yeah.

00:17:59.940 Some kids don't even speak English.

00:18:01.440 So really?

00:18:02.280 Yeah.

00:18:02.780 All my ladies that work with me are Spanish.

00:18:04.720 Oh yeah.

00:18:05.560 Yeah.

00:18:06.220 It's cool though.

00:18:06.840 I start,

00:18:07.400 you know,

00:18:07.980 acting like I'm high blowing,

00:18:09.380 you know,

00:18:09.800 I'm like,

00:18:10.480 Oh,

00:18:10.620 I got this.

00:18:13.120 So I learned a couple of little words and then I know what they want.

00:18:15.620 Yeah.

00:18:16.040 I'm like,

00:18:16.540 Oh,

00:18:16.700 I got it.

00:18:17.120 Don't worry.

00:18:17.480 She wants a latte.

00:18:18.880 It's a milk.

00:18:20.540 It excites me.

00:18:22.300 Oh yeah.

00:18:22.960 It does feel good whenever somebody's speaking Spanish and you,

00:18:25.940 and you get it.

00:18:27.340 Yeah.

00:18:27.480 You get it.

00:18:28.200 Yeah.

00:18:28.720 Oh yeah.

00:18:29.540 That's a great feeling.

00:18:30.840 It's really cool.

00:18:31.800 Yeah.

00:18:32.260 So I'm trying to teach them some English.

00:18:34.040 Yeah.

00:18:34.500 You know,

00:18:34.940 cause I'm like,

00:18:35.480 you just brought me that and I didn't ask for that.

00:18:37.020 I asked for ketchup.

00:18:37.600 What'd you bring me a spoon for?

00:18:40.440 So we all just crack a laugh.

00:18:42.440 Yeah.

00:18:42.700 A lot of people are just don't know the difference between,

00:18:45.740 um,

00:18:46.560 yeah.

00:18:47.120 Condiments,

00:18:47.680 silverware,

00:18:48.480 people,

00:18:48.920 a lot of people get scared.

00:18:50.840 They had an emu the other day that died and had a bird at a,

00:18:54.120 ate a woman's car keys somewhere.

00:18:56.840 Yeah.

00:18:57.380 So people will eat anything.

00:18:59.520 I feel,

00:18:59.980 um,

00:19:01.140 can you bring that up?

00:19:02.040 You see,

00:19:02.360 let me know if you can find that.

00:19:04.440 Um,

00:19:06.080 is there a lot of lesbianism like in the,

00:19:07.940 in the cafeteria culture?

00:19:09.220 I feel like we had a lot of,

00:19:11.160 uh,

00:19:11.560 I'm sorry.

00:19:13.900 That was a good one.

00:19:14.760 Is that crazy?

00:19:15.960 We had a lot of,

00:19:16.720 uh,

00:19:17.160 female in,

00:19:18.120 not inbreeding or whatever,

00:19:19.240 but like inbreding,

00:19:20.240 I guess basically.

00:19:21.060 Cause it's like,

00:19:21.440 let's just say there's a little bit of everything.

00:19:22.880 Okay.

00:19:23.360 Okay.

00:19:23.740 We're going to say there's a little bit of everything.

00:19:25.700 We had a lot of,

00:19:26.640 uh,

00:19:26.900 women love or whatever they called it back in the day in,

00:19:29.720 um,

00:19:30.700 in the cafeteria.

00:19:32.920 You would see that a lot of people,

00:19:35.200 some of them,

00:19:36.420 their husbands had been mean to them and then they would fall in love after that.

00:19:39.900 So it's like male induced lesbianism.

00:19:44.180 Right.

00:19:44.460 Right.

00:19:44.620 I get it.

00:19:45.160 Yeah.

00:19:46.000 He did me wrong.

00:19:46.980 I'm never being with a man again,

00:19:48.300 but I'll be with this gal,

00:19:51.000 you know,

00:19:51.240 and make her,

00:19:52.700 I'll be with this gal and make her wear his old clothes.

00:19:56.840 Right.

00:19:57.300 Right.

00:19:57.780 Right.

00:19:58.300 That's weird.

00:19:59.020 Yeah.

00:19:59.500 You're like,

00:19:59.860 a beloved ostrich at the Topeka zoo and conservation center in Kansas has died

00:20:08.740 after swallowing a staff member's keys.

00:20:11.320 God,

00:20:11.960 that's crazy.

00:20:13.600 Oh,

00:20:13.840 and you know,

00:20:14.200 they were probably looking for the keys for a while too.

00:20:16.640 And they're like,

00:20:17.000 where are the keys?

00:20:18.080 And the ostrich is just like,

00:20:18.380 I'd be like,

00:20:18.700 you poor ostrich.

00:20:19.600 Oh,

00:20:19.780 he ate my keys.

00:20:20.520 He's dead.

00:20:21.980 The ostrich is just over there like,

00:20:24.340 you know,

00:20:29.860 they're like,

00:20:32.040 where's,

00:20:32.520 I know,

00:20:33.340 right?

00:20:33.560 Where's those keys?

00:20:34.520 I don't know.

00:20:35.420 Oh,

00:20:35.580 there was just an ostrich standing by me.

00:20:37.040 Nobody else was brought me.

00:20:38.080 And the ostrich is just,

00:20:39.160 the ostrich is just leaning on a,

00:20:41.180 on like a,

00:20:41.860 on a,

00:20:42.460 on a,

00:20:42.920 on a cage door.

00:20:44.160 He's like,

00:20:44.440 different times.

00:20:51.180 Right.

00:20:51.700 We got that right.

00:20:52.540 The zoo announced in a social media post Friday,

00:20:54.940 the five-year-old ostrich named Karen,

00:20:56.880 oh,

00:20:57.160 had reached beyond her exhibits fence and grabbed her.

00:20:59.860 They've been swallowed the employee's keys.

00:21:01.760 Staff consulted with experts around the U S to undergo surgical and non-surgical efforts to minimize the impact of the key of the keys.

00:21:08.480 Unfortunately,

00:21:09.140 unfortunately,

00:21:09.920 these efforts were successful.

00:21:10.740 You couldn't pass the key then.

00:21:12.460 Yeah,

00:21:12.720 I guess you couldn't.

00:21:13.740 And I guess if,

00:21:14.420 if you like to haim like an ostrich,

00:21:16.760 it was just,

00:21:18.160 you can't get enough power in there.

00:21:20.520 Right.

00:21:21.500 Hmm.

00:21:21.800 To really get them to blast out.

00:21:24.300 God,

00:21:24.880 that's pretty sad.

00:21:26.000 I'm sorry.

00:21:26.800 Hmm.

00:21:27.040 Hey,

00:21:29.780 serve it up.

00:21:31.700 You got that right.

00:21:33.060 Cause I sure serve.

00:21:34.760 Hey,

00:21:35.180 look at the kids.

00:21:36.740 We eat it.

00:21:37.260 Serve it up.

00:21:37.760 That's right.

00:21:38.280 If you'd have told me when I was a child that a cut of ostrich had come through,

00:21:41.340 I think there's some kids would have gone in and tried it,

00:21:43.860 but,

00:21:44.360 but I guess overall children don't like trying a lot of new stuff.

00:21:47.460 Now they're so picky.

00:21:49.760 I mean,

00:21:50.140 back in the day,

00:21:50.700 I think they ate more.

00:21:51.520 Now it's like,

00:21:52.260 you know,

00:21:53.500 can I,

00:21:54.180 where's my hand?

00:21:54.700 I'm like,

00:21:55.000 I didn't have that today.

00:21:56.020 You know?

00:21:56.840 Yeah.

00:21:57.040 Kids are picky.

00:21:58.280 And mostly I remember they,

00:22:00.240 we,

00:22:00.420 we would always sometimes get them McNugget,

00:22:02.540 which was pretty good.

00:22:03.520 They like the nuggets.

00:22:04.740 Yeah.

00:22:05.200 They still like them.

00:22:06.240 Oh,

00:22:06.440 they love the chicken.

00:22:07.200 Oh yeah.

00:22:07.840 And what else would we get?

00:22:09.940 That was really good.

00:22:10.960 The pizza.

00:22:11.780 I enjoyed.

00:22:12.420 I really did like the pizza till they switched it to that square pizza with no real

00:22:16.320 crust on it.

00:22:17.140 And it just made me just so angry at everybody.

00:22:20.540 Um,

00:22:21.300 what else?

00:22:22.740 That straw in the milk bag they used to have.

00:22:25.220 Do they still have that?

00:22:26.000 It was like a bag of milk.

00:22:27.100 No,

00:22:27.260 they don't,

00:22:27.660 they don't do the bags no more.

00:22:29.100 No,

00:22:30.280 actually we don't even do straws no more.

00:22:31.860 Really?

00:22:32.360 Yeah.

00:22:32.580 He took away the straws and stuff for,

00:22:34.360 I guess we're going to,

00:22:35.540 you know,

00:22:36.260 say how do you get the milk out of it into your body?

00:22:38.940 Well,

00:22:39.400 I mean,

00:22:39.820 you know what?

00:22:40.120 I thought there'd be more problems,

00:22:41.380 but they take that carton and just open it up and drink it.

00:22:44.740 Oh.

00:22:44.880 And so I haven't had too much of a problem,

00:22:47.220 but when it first started,

00:22:48.040 I kind of did think,

00:22:48.940 wow,

00:22:49.220 there's going to be a lot of you to my amazement.

00:22:51.860 No,

00:22:52.180 they just figured like,

00:22:53.160 they just figured it out for 30 years.

00:22:55.480 One years,

00:22:55.860 they've been popping in straw in there,

00:22:57.360 you know,

00:22:57.860 they clogs my sink.

00:22:59.920 You know,

00:23:00.120 we were washing the tables,

00:23:01.100 put it down the sink and all those straws go in there.

00:23:03.280 And it's a bunch of straws.

00:23:03.880 And I'm like,

00:23:04.080 what's in there?

00:23:04.780 We pop it out and all these straws go.

00:23:06.620 I'm like,

00:23:08.140 Oh,

00:23:08.840 it's those yellow straws.

00:23:10.960 Yeah.

00:23:12.120 Okay.

00:23:12.800 So this,

00:23:13.640 uh,

00:23:14.040 so you guys got the food out to the children.

00:23:16.400 The children start to come in through the line.

00:23:18.660 Right.

00:23:19.160 Now,

00:23:19.600 do you guys,

00:23:20.400 we had,

00:23:21.040 um,

00:23:21.540 BDLD would come in first.

00:23:23.360 I don't know if they still have it.

00:23:24.360 Behavior disabled,

00:23:25.500 learning disabled would come in first or last for lunch.

00:23:28.860 Do you guys still do that?

00:23:29.920 Everybody's just mixed in.

00:23:30.860 Everybody's mixed.

00:23:31.660 Okay.

00:23:32.060 Comes in.

00:23:32.900 So,

00:23:33.540 uh,

00:23:34.300 so you get the children start coming in and what are you,

00:23:37.640 where are you at?

00:23:38.300 Are you stationed at a certain point?

00:23:39.900 Like what kind of offense are y'all running?

00:23:41.480 Well,

00:23:41.720 I mean,

00:23:42.860 we could,

00:23:43.440 uh,

00:23:43.680 I should be down there like Mark and stuff,

00:23:45.360 but I'm the fastest one with serving and stuff.

00:23:48.600 So most of the time I'm the server.

00:23:50.420 You're on the line.

00:23:51.020 Yeah.

00:23:51.640 I like to be on the line because I know how fast I could go.

00:23:55.280 Um,

00:23:55.720 even if I drop stuff,

00:23:56.760 you know,

00:23:56.900 I just keep on going.

00:23:57.960 Oh,

00:23:58.200 you know,

00:23:58.820 just keep on going.

00:23:59.560 Just like your lunch lady,

00:24:00.740 Annie.

00:24:01.840 Yeah.

00:24:02.200 You know about her?

00:24:02.960 Yeah.

00:24:03.360 I watched you and then I was laughing because I had carpal tunnel surgery last

00:24:07.360 year and I was doing the same thing and we laughed.

00:24:09.680 We watched that because I kept throwing stuff.

00:24:11.240 I'm like,

00:24:11.480 keep going.

00:24:12.000 My hand,

00:24:12.600 my finger be getting all stuck and looking all crazy.

00:24:15.160 And the kids are like,

00:24:16.100 what are you doing?

00:24:16.540 I'm like this.

00:24:18.060 She would do this in her sleep.

00:24:21.200 In her sleep.

00:24:22.160 She would be doing this.

00:24:22.740 I bet.

00:24:23.560 She,

00:24:24.020 uh,

00:24:24.500 you know what actually happened to her?

00:24:25.580 She,

00:24:26.000 um,

00:24:26.600 well she was,

00:24:27.040 we had a couple of good lunch ladies.

00:24:28.240 We had this one lady we had named Sarge actually.

00:24:31.600 And she was,

00:24:32.860 I think a,

00:24:33.740 um,

00:24:34.800 she loved ladies.

00:24:37.340 I'll say that.

00:24:38.620 And she,

00:24:39.800 um,

00:24:40.360 she had all these pictures of her dogs on her all the time.

00:24:43.460 And she'd always be like,

00:24:45.040 Oh,

00:24:45.340 well I got so many dogs.

00:24:47.240 And she would just have all these little buttons and pictures of all these dogs.

00:24:51.660 And,

00:24:51.880 and then she'd have a bucket.

00:24:53.500 She'd keep all this,

00:24:54.340 some of the extra stuff for her dogs.

00:24:55.700 And,

00:24:56.040 you know,

00:24:56.220 she's like,

00:24:56.520 I'm going to feed my puppies today.

00:24:59.600 Okay.

00:25:00.780 You're like,

00:25:01.440 all right.

00:25:01.800 All right.

00:25:02.220 You can have it.

00:25:03.020 Fine.

00:25:03.960 She'd have so many,

00:25:05.060 sometimes she'd have like missing animals.

00:25:05.860 Like as long as you feed me,

00:25:07.200 you can have it.

00:25:07.740 Yeah.

00:25:08.440 You can feed whatever you want lady.

00:25:10.920 As long as you,

00:25:11.280 as long as you feed the fourth grade,

00:25:13.560 you can feed whatever you want.

00:25:14.200 No.

00:25:14.640 But she would sometimes have like a wanted post,

00:25:16.500 like a missing.

00:25:17.300 She would sometimes have like a missing poster on her for a dog that had gotten lost or whatever.

00:25:22.080 And she's like,

00:25:22.780 have y'all seen Bitty or whatever?

00:25:24.340 She would ask us.

00:25:25.300 And then who else did we have?

00:25:26.760 We had,

00:25:27.740 oh,

00:25:28.120 we had Patty,

00:25:28.980 this lady one time.

00:25:30.560 And she would open up the biggest cans of peas,

00:25:34.220 man.

00:25:34.500 I mean,

00:25:34.960 cans.

00:25:35.820 You couldn't even knew that they had a can that big.

00:25:38.080 Oh,

00:25:38.300 I didn't see when I first started to open those big cans too.

00:25:40.740 I was like,

00:25:41.220 wow,

00:25:41.600 look at all those peas.

00:25:42.840 Yeah.

00:25:43.400 Wow.

00:25:43.760 I was amazed.

00:25:47.720 And one of the janitors would always come through and be like,

00:25:50.180 nice cans,

00:25:51.080 Patty.

00:25:51.280 Right,

00:25:51.640 right.

00:25:52.680 And he was just a pervert,

00:25:54.380 but still.

00:25:54.880 Oh,

00:25:55.080 we all like to joke around every once in a while.

00:25:57.160 And you know,

00:25:57.660 it is what it is.

00:25:58.480 It is what it is.

00:25:59.360 And she was pretty good.

00:26:01.160 We had another,

00:26:02.280 oh yeah,

00:26:02.640 we had this other lady,

00:26:05.160 Miss Moncreef.

00:26:07.380 She,

00:26:07.840 she'd always be like,

00:26:10.100 make sure to get your sped a getty.

00:26:12.380 That's what she called it.

00:26:13.760 Get your sped a getty.

00:26:16.260 Get your sped a getty.

00:26:19.120 So she would yell at us.

00:26:21.480 That's funny.

00:26:22.500 She'd be like,

00:26:22.860 get your sped a getty.

00:26:24.220 And instead of saying cake,

00:26:25.560 she would say like,

00:26:26.360 this is crazy,

00:26:27.300 but she would kind of say like,

00:26:28.500 like cack.

00:26:29.900 So she'd be like,

00:26:30.800 and get you a cut of coconut cack over there.

00:26:34.300 See,

00:26:34.700 I think we're all have to be a little nudge,

00:26:36.560 you know,

00:26:37.220 to be over there so long around everybody.

00:26:39.280 Oh,

00:26:39.640 sure.

00:26:40.140 You know,

00:26:40.480 most think I am a little off,

00:26:41.900 but it's okay.

00:26:42.500 Cause I've accepted that.

00:26:44.000 Oh yeah.

00:26:44.600 A long time ago.

00:26:45.860 Get your sped a getty.

00:26:47.120 Get your coconut cack.

00:26:49.040 Yeah.

00:26:49.380 She was bananas,

00:26:50.660 but she was sweet.

00:26:52.300 And then we had Annie and Annie,

00:26:54.520 Miss Annie lived across the street from us.

00:26:56.460 And she,

00:26:57.540 um,

00:26:58.440 was always like the carrot cop.

00:26:59.900 She'd come over and like,

00:27:01.260 be like,

00:27:02.000 eat your carrots,

00:27:04.920 you know?

00:27:05.400 And then she got,

00:27:06.660 um,

00:27:07.800 murdered actually.

00:27:11.880 Oh gosh.

00:27:12.620 Yeah.

00:27:13.140 By her son.

00:27:13.840 But,

00:27:14.340 um,

00:27:15.200 was a great neighbor before that.

00:27:16.660 And great.

00:27:17.140 Yeah.

00:27:17.920 Great lady.

00:27:19.380 And she had been resuscitated a few times.

00:27:21.580 They kept her on staff.

00:27:22.640 She was,

00:27:23.160 there wasn't a lot left of her.

00:27:24.680 Right.

00:27:25.200 You know,

00:27:25.660 by the,

00:27:26.200 by the last,

00:27:27.200 you know,

00:27:28.260 couple months.

00:27:28.940 Yeah.

00:27:29.180 Some people look on crawling out after a while.

00:27:31.760 Yeah.

00:27:32.040 Some people just keep on serving.

00:27:34.720 As long as this part of them works,

00:27:37.140 it's like the rest of them.

00:27:38.100 My ladies has laughed.

00:27:39.660 Cause like I said,

00:27:40.320 last year we forgot the surgery.

00:27:41.700 I was,

00:27:42.460 I was like constantly.

00:27:43.500 And I'm like,

00:27:44.280 and Oh,

00:27:44.800 don't worry.

00:27:45.620 I mean,

00:27:46.160 by the time they have to clean up,

00:27:47.680 cause I threw chicken balls.

00:27:49.380 It wasn't going across the room.

00:27:53.180 Everybody was like,

00:27:54.460 that's hilarious.

00:27:55.600 Hey,

00:27:55.800 you know what?

00:27:57.020 My hands are messed up.

00:27:58.020 It's okay.

00:27:58.460 Cause as you go faster,

00:27:59.980 you don't realize.

00:28:00.840 Yeah.

00:28:01.160 Sometimes you're just like,

00:28:02.080 boom,

00:28:02.260 boom,

00:28:02.340 boom.

00:28:02.560 Things are just starting to move.

00:28:03.840 Yeah.

00:28:04.040 Yeah.

00:28:04.180 Yeah.

00:28:04.300 It's almost like you're a,

00:28:05.280 one of those blackjack dealers.

00:28:06.440 Yeah,

00:28:06.820 I do.

00:28:07.220 I feel like it.

00:28:07.800 I'm like,

00:28:08.040 what do you want?

00:28:08.440 What do you want?

00:28:08.780 Kid?

00:28:08.980 Yeah.

00:28:09.320 What?

00:28:10.980 He wants a button.

00:28:11.820 No,

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00:30:46.040 OK, so you got the kids coming through the line.

00:30:48.800 How does that what's the energy there as they start to come through?

00:30:52.800 Are you usually it does that is that exciting moment for the lunch ladies or is that kind of like, oh, you know, now we got to work.

00:31:00.420 It depends who you are.

00:31:02.080 I'm going to say it like that.

00:31:03.260 Like, you know, a lot of.

00:31:05.520 I say it.

00:31:06.300 I think the younger new generation stuff, they're a little bit more slow and late, you know, it is kind of like.

00:31:11.840 But I get them pumped.

00:31:13.120 We're like we're like, let's go.

00:31:15.200 You're like hot diggity dog.

00:31:16.680 And and we got little ones that come through the line and I go, what do you say?

00:31:20.640 And she's like, if you touch it, you take it.

00:31:22.840 I'm like, you got it, girl.

00:31:24.000 So.

00:31:24.500 So, no, we kind of boost them and get them laughing.

00:31:26.880 I like to wear like I play around with them, like put different wigs on.

00:31:31.080 Oh, yeah.

00:31:31.940 You know, I like to switch it up and I don't wear a lot of makeup most time.

00:31:35.540 So I put makeup on and all of them be like, whoa, you know, just just make it different.

00:31:41.320 Yeah.

00:31:41.640 I mean, we like to try to do something different just so the kids are like, wow.

00:31:45.800 You know.

00:31:46.580 Yeah.

00:31:46.740 It's a lot of fun to play with them, especially the little ones, because they're fun.

00:31:49.820 They are.

00:31:50.620 Like what age are still kids really enjoyable at?

00:31:53.960 I'm going to I'm going to say the little ones up to, I don't know, about 10 before they start

00:31:58.860 getting a little mouthy and then they want to do their own thing.

00:32:02.200 Yeah.

00:32:02.560 Then there are some of them are like too cool for me.

00:32:04.340 They've been in school for like ever.

00:32:05.500 And now they're too cool for me.

00:32:07.180 They hugged me every day when they were little.

00:32:09.740 Yeah.

00:32:10.380 And now they're like, I'm like, OK, I live in the neighborhood, so I see them all.

00:32:15.400 Oh, so you see a lot of them.

00:32:16.420 I see a lot of them.

00:32:17.080 Yeah.

00:32:17.640 And do a lot of the children when they come through.

00:32:19.920 So they're pretty excited.

00:32:21.140 And then you only have one person on y'all's line or how many people's on y'all's line?

00:32:25.160 Well, I do it either by myself or somebody will help me sometimes if it's something really

00:32:28.960 a big meal.

00:32:29.980 And because most of the kids, some of the items they pick off the line themselves.

00:32:34.340 They don't have to actually be handed.

00:32:35.340 Yeah, they have the fruit, the vegetable stuff we do on the other side and they can pick

00:32:39.200 all that up their self.

00:32:40.720 I do like the main hot food.

00:32:42.220 OK.

00:32:42.880 For them, you know.

00:32:43.980 And so those are items like what?

00:32:45.740 Spadagheti.

00:32:46.800 Right.

00:32:46.960 What else?

00:32:48.140 We have pasta and meatballs.

00:32:50.340 We have a chicken bowl where they have the mashed potatoes, the chicken, corn.

00:32:56.220 OK.

00:32:56.580 Like a chicken pot pie kind of?

00:32:57.640 Yeah.

00:32:58.080 We started.

00:32:58.520 We have like a Polish girl now.

00:33:00.760 It's like a turkey sausage kind of thing.

00:33:04.040 And you put the sweet potato fries and some slaw and some barbecue sauce on that sucker.

00:33:08.940 It's good.

00:33:10.360 I like it that day.

00:33:11.740 That sounds great.

00:33:12.500 So I'm saying, I mean, I've been eating the food all these years, but I think they're

00:33:16.840 getting better.

00:33:17.660 Yeah.

00:33:17.960 They're getting a lot better because when I first started, we just heated up microwave

00:33:21.360 dinners.

00:33:22.000 I'll tell you.

00:33:22.780 Really?

00:33:23.360 Oh, yeah.

00:33:23.980 We heated them up in the thing.

00:33:25.320 You couldn't cook food that was open.

00:33:29.120 So it looked like you cook like five fries.

00:33:32.000 I've got fries.

00:33:32.660 They're all stuck in the bottom.

00:33:33.760 And I mean, the quality, like I said, and then you make a hamburger with a bun already on

00:33:39.880 it and heat it up in a plastic.

00:33:41.220 What is it?

00:33:41.700 You know?

00:33:42.540 Yeah.

00:33:43.140 So now we're doing like, we'll do the burger and we cook it and really cook it.

00:33:47.140 And the fries go in the oven and they get crispy, you know?

00:33:50.480 Oh, that's nice.

00:33:51.360 So yeah.

00:33:52.100 I, like I said, I've seen a big change.

00:33:54.980 Really?

00:33:55.480 And how long has that change period been over you?

00:33:57.580 Well, it's been about, I'm going to say about eight years of them slowly changing it.

00:34:03.600 But this year has been the top because like the kids get a cantaloupe, watermelon, whatever,

00:34:11.760 that I cut it up.

00:34:12.660 I'm like going to Hawaii or something.

00:34:14.360 Oh man, the big kids, I have to slow them down.

00:34:16.960 I'm like, man, that's too many portions.

00:34:19.400 Cause I mean, they'll take the whole thing, you know?

00:34:22.220 But yeah, they probably didn't get all that good food.

00:34:26.280 And now we get tangerines instead of oranges, which is really cool.

00:34:28.980 Cause you can, those little cuties, you can peel those in a second.

00:34:32.200 So I don't even have to cut up those oranges.

00:34:34.660 I know.

00:34:35.740 Those cuties, it's almost like having a little date almost.

00:34:38.200 Oh man, they are.

00:34:39.080 But I have to stop.

00:34:39.880 The kids like them so much.

00:34:40.960 They're in their pockets.

00:34:42.140 They got to remember, how many cuties you got?

00:34:44.000 Yeah, they don't care.

00:34:49.460 Okay, so you got the line.

00:34:51.080 Y'all got it going pretty good.

00:34:52.200 What types of ages are coming through your line or have come through your line over the years?

00:34:55.840 Cause how many, how many years have you been in the game?

00:34:57.820 31.

00:34:58.680 31 years.

00:34:59.740 Yeah, I'm finished in my 31.

00:35:00.960 Yeah.

00:35:01.300 Wow.

00:35:01.740 You're like Glover Teixeira.

00:35:03.180 Right, right.

00:35:05.340 He's a famous UFC fighter.

00:35:07.000 You were like, yeah, he's beloved and been in it for a while.

00:35:11.100 Um, that's him right there.

00:35:13.480 But he is a very sweet man who has stood the test of time in his industry.

00:35:18.960 Okay, so what kind of kids are coming through the line there, you know?

00:35:22.420 And what's some of the interaction like with them?

00:35:24.420 Well, like the preschool and it's like, come here, baby.

00:35:28.460 They come first?

00:35:29.460 Yes.

00:35:29.920 Okay, so the littlest kids come first.

00:35:31.300 The littlest kids come first.

00:35:32.280 Oh, wow.

00:35:32.940 Yeah, we get the little ones and then we move on up.

00:35:36.380 And at the last period is 6th, 7th, 8th.

00:35:38.720 Those are the big ones.

00:35:39.700 Yeah.

00:35:39.980 So we start out with these babies, you know?

00:35:42.520 And, you know, they're all cute, little babies.

00:35:44.960 Then we go to these big, huge kids, which I don't know what they're feeding them anymore

00:35:47.780 because, you know, they're-

00:35:49.240 They're getting big?

00:35:50.060 Yeah.

00:35:50.600 Yeah.

00:35:51.060 I got some big boys.

00:35:52.400 Miss Melissa, hook me up.

00:35:53.520 And I'm like, okay, you know?

00:35:55.500 Yeah.

00:35:56.240 But yeah, we start out.

00:35:59.000 But the little ones, they come anywhere from 4 years old.

00:36:01.980 Mm-hmm.

00:36:02.740 And I think to about 14.

00:36:04.520 Okay.

00:36:04.880 Unless they, you know, failed a bunch of times and then they might be a little older.

00:36:09.100 Oh, yeah.

00:36:09.500 I mean, you know, you see a mustache.

00:36:10.660 We had a guy, yeah.

00:36:11.660 Yeah.

00:36:11.860 We started to see that mustache.

00:36:12.620 How many times he's been here?

00:36:14.680 Yeah.

00:36:15.280 Yeah.

00:36:15.560 He finally comes through one of you.

00:36:16.700 You just hand him a, what's it, thing you fill out to work?

00:36:22.100 When you want to work somewhere?

00:36:23.200 Yeah.

00:36:23.380 You just hand him a work application?

00:36:24.240 Oh, yeah.

00:36:24.560 Right, right.

00:36:25.000 You might as well.

00:36:25.660 You're going to be, you know, 18 in a minute.

00:36:27.400 That happens a lot.

00:36:30.360 I bet.

00:36:31.340 So what, yeah, what are some of the kiddos that have come through?

00:36:33.980 Some of the little buckarooties that have come through there?

00:36:36.380 Oh.

00:36:36.820 Like any unique, like anybody bringing anything with, like any stories they bring with them?

00:36:40.680 Or what's going on with the kiddos?

00:36:42.500 Well, I mean, there are so many kids.

00:36:45.260 I see them everywhere now.

00:36:46.580 Like the lady that's at the pharmacy, she's a pharmacist.

00:36:50.640 She was one of my kids.

00:36:51.680 I go to restaurants.

00:36:53.480 We go on a canoe ride.

00:36:55.700 And I started laughing.

00:36:56.660 I was nowhere near Cleveland.

00:36:57.920 And they're like, Miss Melissa.

00:36:59.480 And everywhere I go, I run into stuff.

00:37:02.600 I mean, that's a lot of years.

00:37:03.760 And they're grown.

00:37:05.280 Wow.

00:37:05.780 So they'll look at me and I'm like giving them my money.

00:37:08.580 And they're like, are you Miss Melissa?

00:37:10.680 I'm like, yeah.

00:37:11.340 I was like, you were one of my kids.

00:37:14.720 Oh, that's cool.

00:37:15.820 But it's cool.

00:37:16.880 Yeah.

00:37:17.260 Yeah.

00:37:18.060 Yeah, there's a connection.

00:37:19.620 Well, especially because you're feeding the children, you know.

00:37:21.900 There's always a connection with somebody that's feeding you.

00:37:23.840 Well, I'm nice to the kids too, yeah.

00:37:25.220 Yeah.

00:37:25.680 And I'm funny and, you know.

00:37:27.720 They like being around you.

00:37:28.600 They like seeing you.

00:37:29.200 Oh, yeah.

00:37:29.780 Oh, yeah.

00:37:30.880 And do some of the kids ever bring anything with them?

00:37:33.680 Do they ever like, are they like, what do?

00:37:37.400 Well, we had some come through the line.

00:37:38.820 And then one had a snake in his book bag.

00:37:41.940 Really?

00:37:42.200 And the little girl brought her a cat in the book bag.

00:37:44.680 Yeah.

00:37:45.120 You never know what they're going to bring.

00:37:46.680 Really?

00:37:46.920 They brought a cat?

00:37:47.580 But we have security that checks their bag.

00:37:50.260 So I bet they've seen some more or something.

00:37:52.820 Yeah.

00:37:53.640 Like, is that cat meowing?

00:37:55.200 I mean, that book bag meowing over there?

00:37:56.880 Is that the new style?

00:37:58.700 Did she press a button?

00:38:01.560 And then when she'd come through the line, they asked me for cat food.

00:38:03.720 I was like, what?

00:38:04.640 No.

00:38:05.380 I don't serve that.

00:38:07.300 But what did they ask you to do?

00:38:08.540 Just put something in their bag for the cat?

00:38:10.060 Like, how'd you know?

00:38:10.800 No, I just, they herd them and stuff.

00:38:13.460 And them guys, you know, like I said, they have to come through the detector.

00:38:17.360 Oh, they have a metal detector?

00:38:18.480 Oh, yeah.

00:38:18.780 We got metal detectors.

00:38:19.220 Oh, so you're in the trenches over there.

00:38:20.940 Oh, I'm in the lower, lower west side.

00:38:22.920 Wow.

00:38:23.280 Oh, yeah.

00:38:25.260 Y'all are in there.

00:38:26.780 Wow.

00:38:26.940 Oh, yeah.

00:38:29.020 Okay, so you have some children will bring a cat or even a snake through.

00:38:34.180 And do you think it's just because they don't want to be alone from their pet?

00:38:37.160 Yeah, probably just wanting to see their pets and stuff like that.

00:38:41.180 Their parents probably didn't even know they snuck them out half the time.

00:38:43.740 You know what I mean?

00:38:45.000 So, I mean, if they could, sometimes the kids would let a dog in if they could,

00:38:48.560 so they could run around.

00:38:49.580 Yeah.

00:38:50.960 You know who you're laughing to?

00:38:52.040 Do people ever tell you that?

00:38:52.700 Your laugh reminds me of, um, do they have the lady from the Adam Sandler thing,

00:38:58.780 if you can find it?

00:39:01.840 A little bit.

00:39:03.560 Yours is way more charming.

00:39:04.660 Oh, that's too funny.

00:39:21.220 I never thought of that.

00:39:22.180 The lady is scaring us.

00:39:22.920 I do sound like her.

00:39:24.240 Just her laugh, though.

00:39:27.300 You're way prettier than her.

00:39:28.400 Oh, that's funny.

00:39:29.180 She's pretty, too.

00:39:30.640 But, um, uh, is it tough to see some of the kids, like, grow and leave sometimes?

00:39:36.020 Are there some kids you're like, man, that kid's gonna, like, we really wish they could stay?

00:39:40.060 Yeah, but I, like, wonder what happened to some of them that you really liked, that you don't see that much no more.

00:39:46.680 Um, and some you see in, well, they're not really doing it as well, because I'm there in the neighborhood.

00:39:53.020 But, uh, I see so much bad, good, you know?

00:39:57.920 And then I love it when they come back and they're like, oh, I just got in college, or I'm doing this, or I'm about to go to nursing school, or I did.

00:40:07.300 But I, then I'm very excited that, you know, because where we're at.

00:40:11.900 Yeah.

00:40:12.160 So, like, my son, he couldn't wait to get out of Cleveland, and he got married and just moved away.

00:40:17.720 He was gone?

00:40:18.360 He was gone as soon as he left.

00:40:19.820 And then I had to get a dog named Moe, because he was named Joe, and I lost him.

00:40:26.000 Yeah.

00:40:26.580 Oh, you gotta get a dog that rhymes with your son's name.

00:40:28.880 Right.

00:40:29.280 So, I replaced him with my dog, Moe.

00:40:32.100 That's fair.

00:40:32.860 Yeah.

00:40:33.520 And where did you, um, is there a lot of, like, dating?

00:40:36.980 Like, do a lot of janitors come by the lunch area trying to holler and trying to, like,

00:40:41.340 because that's what I felt like when I was a kid.

00:40:44.520 Sometimes you would see some of the janitors over there trying to, um, you know, just,

00:40:49.840 like, spend a little bit extra time or something like that.

00:40:52.800 Mine's real cool.

00:40:54.640 Um.

00:40:55.000 You only got one janitor?

00:40:57.060 Yeah, sort of.

00:40:58.000 I mean, because, well, they say they're custodians.

00:41:01.040 They don't like to be called janitors.

00:41:02.200 Oh, yeah.

00:41:02.540 Sorry, custodians.

00:41:04.360 And, um.

00:41:04.880 Yeah, I respect both of them.

00:41:05.900 Yeah.

00:41:06.160 But it just, um, yeah, yeah.

00:41:08.560 The last one was a lady and me and her was real good friends and she owned a lake house

00:41:13.300 and I used to go with her all the time down there to New York.

00:41:15.440 So, that was awesome.

00:41:17.100 And my other one, he just left.

00:41:18.720 Yeah, I hang out with all the people that are retired, too, that just left.

00:41:24.100 So, I've worked with them for so long.

00:41:27.420 It's like, we know each other.

00:41:29.000 We grew up.

00:41:30.000 Yeah.

00:41:30.240 We grew up in the same family, you know.

00:41:32.280 Um.

00:41:32.400 Was it sad to see your son graduate?

00:41:34.340 Like, get out of the, like, was when he left your school?

00:41:37.040 Uh, yeah.

00:41:38.100 I was very, yeah.

00:41:39.140 Because I got to keep a very close eye on him.

00:41:42.580 Then he thought he was going to get away with something.

00:41:43.920 But I told him, I'll transfer.

00:41:45.640 I'll follow you, boy.

00:41:47.200 And he's like, no, mom, no.

00:41:48.880 So, he did better.

00:41:50.920 But then when I would go to parent conference and I would start talking, the teachers would

00:41:57.380 look like, no wonder that's where he gets it.

00:41:59.240 Listen to her.

00:42:00.860 I'm all hyper talking to him.

00:42:02.600 I'm like, how's my kid doing?

00:42:03.800 And they're like, well, he's great, I guess.

00:42:06.920 Mom, like you, I guess he's got to do it.

00:42:08.660 Like, we're going to put you into detention.

00:42:09.900 That's what I'm saying.

00:42:10.880 Yeah.

00:42:11.020 Hey, when I first started working at school, I thought, man, did I get called to the office?

00:42:15.260 I thought I was going to detention.

00:42:16.840 Really?

00:42:17.160 And I was really working there.

00:42:18.280 And they would call you down there?

00:42:19.980 Yeah.

00:42:20.520 Just to tone it down?

00:42:21.680 Yeah.

00:42:22.840 She jokes all the time and says that I'm going to have to go outside if I laugh too hard.

00:42:27.400 Because during testing, you know, you're supposed to be quiet.

00:42:29.660 But sometimes the teachers are like, I heard you.

00:42:31.560 I'm like, sorry.

00:42:32.820 But they all like it.

00:42:33.460 So, it's cool.

00:42:34.280 Sometimes you hear an outburst.

00:42:35.600 I'll be just like, ah!

00:42:36.860 And it's all the way upstairs calling.

00:42:38.620 I don't realize.

00:42:39.980 It goes around the school.

00:42:41.620 But they know it's me.

00:42:42.500 Yeah.

00:42:43.280 That's it, huh?

00:42:44.020 Yeah.

00:42:44.320 It's like a bird almost that you hear, you know?

00:42:46.700 Right.

00:42:46.760 Do you see like at certain holidays, what's that like at school?

00:42:51.660 Like around Valentine's or some kids seem kind of lonely or anything?

00:42:55.400 Does that ever happen?

00:42:56.560 A little bit.

00:42:57.280 But they give those little hearts out.

00:42:59.720 Right.

00:42:59.880 And they give candy.

00:43:01.280 And the bigger kids will give flowers.

00:43:03.580 You know, it's just, yeah, they make a big.

00:43:06.160 And we have dances and stuff.

00:43:09.000 And the dances are in the cafeteria sometimes?

00:43:10.420 Yeah, most of the cafeteria is like where we have all our dances and everything.

00:43:14.500 And I'm right there.

00:43:15.360 So, I like to dance with the kids.

00:43:17.180 Really?

00:43:17.600 Oh, yeah.

00:43:18.120 I go and enjoy them.

00:43:19.300 Yeah.

00:43:19.740 Oh, wow.

00:43:20.140 You should work for Nickelodeon.

00:43:21.080 Oh, man.

00:43:21.660 We've had a lot of fun.

00:43:22.820 Yeah.

00:43:24.100 So, they let you guys dance with the children at the dances?

00:43:27.280 Sure.

00:43:27.720 Oh, that's cool.

00:43:28.320 Yeah.

00:43:28.640 I remember one time we had a guy named Mr. John and his wife, I think, was a teacher.

00:43:34.840 I don't know if she was a teacher or she just like was like the smartest person in our area

00:43:39.240 and she would hang out at the school.

00:43:40.580 But she, I got to dance with her one time at a dance.

00:43:45.140 Aw.

00:43:45.620 That's pretty cool.

00:43:46.360 I remember.

00:43:46.600 Well, my principals were great with a lot of things that she does.

00:43:50.160 And we have a mother-son dance and things like that.

00:43:53.420 So, I had some buddies a long time ago and they didn't have a mom.

00:43:56.460 So, I went to the dance room, danced with them.

00:43:58.760 Oh, that's sweet.

00:43:59.380 And everything.

00:43:59.980 Yeah.

00:44:00.360 They were my buddies because we do like a buddy breakfast thing.

00:44:03.620 Oh, y'all do?

00:44:04.000 So, I picked him as my buddy.

00:44:05.100 Yeah.

00:44:05.520 Oh, just students?

00:44:06.560 Yeah.

00:44:07.100 So, you kind of get close to some, if you see somebody and they'll say, you want to be

00:44:10.960 my buddy?

00:44:11.640 Yeah.

00:44:11.920 And then you're kind of like their friend they could talk to if they're having a hard

00:44:14.860 day where they hug you every day.

00:44:17.060 So, it's pretty cool.

00:44:18.320 Oh, it's important?

00:44:19.120 Yep.

00:44:19.380 And then a couple times a year we eat with them, talk about, give them a present.

00:44:24.360 That's cool.

00:44:24.820 Really cool.

00:44:25.520 Yeah.

00:44:25.860 Yeah.

00:44:27.060 But yeah, what are some other moments like, have you had some unique interactions?

00:44:32.100 Oh, yeah.

00:44:32.720 Like Halloween, I like to dress up in different stuff.

00:44:37.040 And then I run through the crowd.

00:44:38.660 And the little kids this year, I was this blow up and it blew up big too.

00:44:43.740 It was cool.

00:44:44.520 So, I run out and everything.

00:44:45.840 But then they kept trying to squeeze me and I'm like, I'm going to pop, you know?

00:44:50.940 So, I'm trying to get them away, but I can't because it keeps blowing up.

00:44:53.800 So, we do funny stuff like that.

00:44:57.240 And a couple times I would tutor with the kids, you know, help the little ones with math or

00:45:06.280 something.

00:45:06.720 Like whatever she asks, like we try to do, you know?

00:45:11.520 I think we're like a mixture, you know, when they're away from their home, we could be

00:45:16.160 their mom, their grandma, their whatever.

00:45:18.880 They're crying.

00:45:20.100 You want to go over and make sure they're all right.

00:45:22.160 See what they want.

00:45:23.440 You have kids that'll chase you and hug you every day.

00:45:25.820 Sometimes you got to run.

00:45:26.980 Yeah.

00:45:27.560 Ooh, I run.

00:45:28.260 Sometimes I have to shut the door.

00:45:29.360 I'm like, here she comes.

00:45:30.440 And everybody laughs because she's so beautiful and sweet, but she drives us crazy and she

00:45:34.560 won't make me alone.

00:45:35.580 Yeah.

00:45:36.160 Someone get a little bit of, they get kind of, just kind of, they really cling.

00:45:40.300 Yeah.

00:45:40.680 They hug you too much.

00:45:41.600 Yeah.

00:45:42.160 They hug you.

00:45:42.940 They'll lick you even.

00:45:44.020 Oh, oh yeah.

00:45:45.780 You're right about that.

00:45:46.620 I've seen a child just didn't start licking.

00:45:50.160 You're just like, what is going on with this child?

00:45:52.120 But, um, dude, my friend told me that, um, if you look at anything, anything, you know

00:46:00.200 what it would feel like on your tongue because as a kid you licked everything and checked everything

00:46:04.680 out.

00:46:05.260 Probably.

00:46:05.780 I'm sorry.

00:46:06.360 Yeah.

00:46:06.680 And at first I thought that was crazy.

00:46:07.960 But then if I look at anything, you're probably thinking if I lick that, he said, cause when

00:46:11.480 you're a kid, you just put everything in your mouth.

00:46:12.980 You don't even think about it.

00:46:14.280 True.

00:46:14.420 And you develop like this memory, this memory.

00:46:16.440 Well, there's nothing I wouldn't try.

00:46:17.560 That's why I said kids don't try anything nowadays.

00:46:20.200 There's nothing out, you know?

00:46:21.340 Oh yeah.

00:46:21.780 Look.

00:46:22.420 Is that a chocolate girl for a crisp?

00:46:23.760 Let's eat that.

00:46:24.540 Let's try it.

00:46:25.480 Is there anything you guys will make BTS?

00:46:27.880 Like, be honest with me.

00:46:28.860 Is there some BTS food that you guys will make at the lunch area that's just for you guys?

00:46:35.280 Like you ever brew something up just for the gang, but it's not for the students?

00:46:38.560 Well.

00:46:39.460 I won't tell anybody.

00:46:40.540 No, no.

00:46:40.900 We, we, we, we eat the lunches there, you know.

00:46:44.420 Um, but no, like I can't wait.

00:46:47.460 Like they're all Spanish.

00:46:48.420 So I want them to bring me some rice and beans and stuff.

00:46:50.480 So I want their food.

00:46:51.700 Yeah.

00:46:52.020 So they bring me food all the time.

00:46:54.440 And then I'm like, all right, this is how you get to your boss.

00:46:56.860 No, this is good.

00:46:57.740 I just had some yesterday.

00:47:01.340 Oh yeah.

00:47:01.940 Yeah.

00:47:02.740 Yeah.

00:47:03.100 They got a lot of good food, man.

00:47:04.860 But yeah, I love it.

00:47:06.120 So the ladies come in and they make me food.

00:47:08.460 I'm like, that's the way.

00:47:10.080 Oh, that's beautiful.

00:47:10.860 But, uh.

00:47:11.340 And now when is the day kind of shut down?

00:47:12.940 So after lunch, what happens?

00:47:14.280 How do you guys shut it down?

00:47:15.560 Like the last person leaves and then what?

00:47:18.920 After the last kids gets fed and we make sure everybody's fed.

00:47:22.640 And then it's time the, them ladies clean, clean up, count everything.

00:47:27.060 Cause I got to count everything.

00:47:28.340 Like all the milk, everything, you know, gets counted.

00:47:30.940 Oh, really?

00:47:31.540 Yeah.

00:47:31.800 I do paperwork and everything has a count.

00:47:34.160 So, and then it's got to go on the computer and go down to them of how many kids we fed.

00:47:40.120 Um, just switching it back around, moving the coolers back for breakfast for the next

00:47:44.820 day.

00:47:45.660 You know, everything's goes back to, you know, it's like, um, you flip a switch.

00:47:51.360 You know what I mean?

00:47:52.000 We go for breakfast, lunch, lunch, breakfast, like that.

00:47:54.320 Like a transformer.

00:47:54.960 And just try.

00:47:55.460 I always said that.

00:47:56.560 I said, see how we just did that?

00:47:58.280 I said, it was like transformers.

00:47:59.740 I'm like, we just transformed the kitchen now.

00:48:01.620 Bam.

00:48:01.940 And people come out and they'll be like, dang, Melissa, you just had breakfast.

00:48:05.000 That was like lunch.

00:48:05.980 Cause I'll be like, phew, throw it together.

00:48:08.920 And I'm like, we can't play.

00:48:10.480 Somebody's got to do it.

00:48:11.400 We don't have time.

00:48:11.720 Somebody's got to do it.

00:48:12.560 Yeah.

00:48:12.900 And I'm one of those people that are always, you know, ready to go.

00:48:15.620 Yeah.

00:48:16.100 Yeah.

00:48:16.340 I run around like a chicken with my head cut off.

00:48:18.020 Cause I'm a little nutty, you know, but it's okay.

00:48:20.160 Yeah.

00:48:20.520 The more I move, you know, I just like to go and it is, and I'm getting old.

00:48:25.180 So I have to, you got to keep busy.

00:48:26.840 Heck yeah.

00:48:27.700 And what's it like, like, um, do you have time for dating stuff?

00:48:31.280 You guys have to get up pretty early, huh?

00:48:32.660 What's the love life like of, uh, um, someone in the lunch industry?

00:48:36.820 Oh, I've been married 30 years.

00:48:38.180 Oh, you have?

00:48:38.820 Oh, you got married to the, not the pregnant, not the.

00:48:40.900 No, no, no.

00:48:41.560 Not the baby dad.

00:48:42.760 Yeah.

00:48:43.120 I got married to somebody else.

00:48:45.280 Oh, nice.

00:48:46.080 Yeah.

00:48:46.560 Where'd you meet your husband at?

00:48:48.260 Uh, in the yard.

00:48:52.480 Really?

00:48:53.180 Yeah.

00:48:53.580 Not like a prison thing, huh?

00:48:54.920 Well.

00:48:57.900 No judgment.

00:48:58.720 Half my family's been incarcerated.

00:49:00.200 Well, yeah.

00:49:00.700 I mean, he, he, yeah, he just got out.

00:49:03.860 Hey, babes, you look good.

00:49:06.220 Welcome back.

00:49:07.160 Welcome back.

00:49:08.740 He didn't do it.

00:49:10.600 Make me a breakdown.

00:49:14.400 You should guys get, oh, I guess he probably is not allowed to go to school then.

00:49:17.560 No, no.

00:49:17.980 This was so long ago.

00:49:19.260 He's, he's good now.

00:49:20.200 Okay.

00:49:20.980 Yeah.

00:49:23.140 We won't talk about that.

00:49:24.380 Yeah.

00:49:24.660 We'll keep that out.

00:49:26.180 Um, so that's nice then.

00:49:27.980 So you got to love, you have, you have a love in your life.

00:49:30.660 You have one child.

00:49:31.500 That's your only child.

00:49:32.320 Oh yeah.

00:49:32.740 I was one and done.

00:49:33.600 Yeah.

00:49:34.040 Oh yeah.

00:49:34.840 What made you not want more?

00:49:35.820 Well, I guess.

00:49:36.280 That was the whole experience.

00:49:37.280 I mean, what the heck?

00:49:38.340 I don't, women just keep popping them out.

00:49:39.900 Are they crazy?

00:49:40.800 It's unreal.

00:49:41.520 All that stuff we had to do.

00:49:42.740 And I told that doctor or whoever I told him, this was all too much for me.

00:49:46.740 Then he came out with collar.

00:49:48.400 And I'm like, what the heck?

00:49:50.700 I watched kids for years and they never acted like that.

00:49:55.340 Then I had my own.

00:49:56.360 And I'm like, everybody kept saying, you're going to have another one.

00:49:58.260 I'm like, nope.

00:49:58.900 Yeah.

00:49:59.560 Nope.

00:49:59.900 So when he was 10, I got my tube side.

00:50:01.240 I said, nope, I'm making sure.

00:50:02.380 I'm done.

00:50:03.120 Oh yeah.

00:50:03.660 That was it.

00:50:04.360 Shut down the lunch line.

00:50:05.300 Shut that all down.

00:50:06.140 The lunch line was over.

00:50:07.280 I got 600 kids a day.

00:50:09.620 I don't even need it.

00:50:11.600 Hey, you got to open it up for breakfast every now and then.

00:50:15.220 Well, I mean, yeah, but see, I don't have to have it.

00:50:17.720 Yeah.

00:50:17.940 You know, it doesn't make it easy now.

00:50:20.460 Wow.

00:50:22.180 Do kids, let me get into the financial of it.

00:50:24.180 Do children pay for school lunch a little bit?

00:50:26.340 A long time ago when I started, I'm going to say about 20 years ago.

00:50:30.800 Well, they did.

00:50:31.940 We had X and Y tickets.

00:50:33.200 They were good.

00:50:33.700 X was full paid and Y was free lunch.

00:50:36.480 You got it.

00:50:36.880 Or partial pay.

00:50:37.660 Yep.

00:50:38.100 They had the full, partial, and free.

00:50:41.120 Oh, they had full.

00:50:42.100 Dude, I remember.

00:50:43.180 So I would get to school.

00:50:45.000 God, dude, it was the most.

00:50:46.640 This was like one of the skits.

00:50:47.860 This was like one of the tougher things, I think.

00:50:50.180 When you were a kid, like, yeah, you would get there and see if you can bring up the school

00:50:56.080 lunch tickets.

00:50:56.480 Keep looking for them.

00:50:57.280 Mine looked a little bit different.

00:50:58.460 Oh, my goodness.

00:51:00.880 Look at those lunch cards.

00:51:01.880 No, keep looking to see if you find some other ones.

00:51:04.480 Oh, yeah.

00:51:04.840 No, right there.

00:51:05.360 The red and blue, the whole mix of all of them, like the game tickets.

00:51:08.260 Those are the ones we had.

00:51:08.800 Right there?

00:51:09.360 Yeah.

00:51:10.040 And so you'd get up to the lady, right?

00:51:12.000 There'd be the lunch lady because they didn't allow men to do it because I don't believe

00:51:15.340 men should do it.

00:51:16.060 We got a couple men in the system now.

00:51:18.520 Really?

00:51:19.200 We'll talk about that some other time.

00:51:20.160 Times have changed, yeah.

00:51:22.560 But we would get in there and you had to go up to her and you had to tell her if you were

00:51:27.840 if you paid, you had to just buy the ticket from her.

00:51:31.800 And if you were free, you had to tell her you were free.

00:51:34.500 And I was just, I always felt so embarrassing because there'd always be like another kid

00:51:37.840 right behind you or in front of you.

00:51:39.560 She'd always say it like, I'm free, you know.

00:51:41.320 And if the bus got there early, you could get breakfast.

00:51:43.760 That was the thing.

00:51:44.240 If the bus.

00:51:44.880 Right.

00:51:45.100 So based on how Miss Hazel was doing and bless her heart or whatever, she's alive or not.

00:51:50.100 Hopefully she's alive, but she might not be.

00:51:52.660 But she was awesome.

00:51:54.520 But she, sometimes she would lollygag.

00:51:56.880 Like sometimes she would stop or drive slow and smoke.

00:52:00.000 And so we would get there a few minutes later and we would miss breakfast.

00:52:03.780 And then you were just beside yourself.

00:52:06.300 You didn't even, you know, because you had to get all the way to like 1140.

00:52:08.940 Right, right.

00:52:09.380 That's what, right.

00:52:11.060 And you would just keep going to the water fountain and just drinking as much water as you could.

00:52:17.700 And yeah, and I remember even one of my teachers would be like, go get you some of that

00:52:20.800 breakfast water out there.

00:52:22.300 Breakfast water.

00:52:23.060 Yeah, that's what they used to say.

00:52:24.060 Miss Smith would always say that.

00:52:25.240 But anyway, yeah.

00:52:26.400 And then at lunch, I don't know if we got our tickets in advance for the week or if you

00:52:29.880 had to go and do the same thing at lunch.

00:52:33.040 But you would always try to sneakily say, yeah, free lunch or whatever, you know, I'll

00:52:36.460 take a Y one or just something like that.

00:52:38.140 Or I would try to pretend like I was giving them money.

00:52:40.400 Right, right, right.

00:52:40.680 It was like I was a magician just because I didn't want the other kids to eat because

00:52:44.300 you know, kids get so embarrassed.

00:52:46.060 No, they do.

00:52:46.900 Yeah.

00:52:47.200 But then once you got the ticket, yeah, and you were free to the line, usually you would

00:52:50.860 get a tray or like a little carton, like a little plastic kind of little carton.

00:52:56.200 And then you would go to like to the milk or beverage area first, get that.

00:52:59.580 Then you would go into the room where the actual kitchen was and you would have the line

00:53:05.020 there, you would get your line items, come out, and then that was it.

00:53:09.120 You was free to go sit down and eat.

00:53:11.700 It was awesome.

00:53:13.300 It was, yeah, that was like the best thing ever, dude.

00:53:16.200 What is the funnest thing to serve to the kids?

00:53:18.960 Is there something you really enjoy?

00:53:20.520 I like to serve the pizza because it's one piece.

00:53:25.040 Because I can throw the pizza.

00:53:27.560 But when I got like mashed potatoes, corn, chicken, a raw, you know, I'm sorry.

00:53:32.460 Now I'm like, you know.

00:53:34.020 It's too much, huh?

00:53:34.700 Everybody, yeah, everybody's picky.

00:53:36.560 So they don't want gravy.

00:53:38.400 Some want gravy, you know, it's like.

00:53:40.020 Yeah.

00:53:40.520 And now they're like allowed to pick what they want.

00:53:42.720 Yeah.

00:53:43.260 We used to give them all of it, so.

00:53:44.620 Oh, they used to, yeah, that's crazy.

00:53:45.980 You get to pick what you want.

00:53:46.900 We would have to get whatever.

00:53:48.520 Sometimes they give you a bunch of junk.

00:53:50.000 You're like, some of this, it wasn't even, I don't even think some of it was food or whatever.

00:53:53.000 And you would just have to take it back to your table, you know?

00:53:55.940 Oh, yeah.

00:53:56.200 I seen so much waste back in the day.

00:53:58.740 We'd have like a bean burrito.

00:54:00.460 All these kids would just, you know what I mean?

00:54:02.760 Just throw it away.

00:54:03.320 Just throw it away.

00:54:03.920 You just cooked all those just to be in the garbage.

00:54:06.660 You're like, damn.

00:54:07.940 The apple, I feel like, would always get thrown away.

00:54:10.140 Yeah, sometimes, yeah.

00:54:11.620 Yeah, you would be like, I don't know if I'm eating this.

00:54:13.560 Yeah.

00:54:14.000 You know?

00:54:14.940 That would always be a tough one.

00:54:16.460 I've ordered less apples now.

00:54:18.320 Yeah?

00:54:18.560 Yeah, because of the other ones are more popular that we have now that they're trying different, you know, watermelon.

00:54:26.360 Ooh.

00:54:27.320 That's gone.

00:54:28.080 I'm watermelon, man.

00:54:29.180 I have to, we'll be cutting 10 water, and we'll be cutting those watermelon.

00:54:32.480 And what type of cutter are you using back there?

00:54:34.420 Do you guys have a sanctioned knife that you have to use or something or a sword?

00:54:37.520 Well, we have a couple knives.

00:54:39.340 Yeah, like that.

00:54:40.400 We got a couple knives we use for those, which we just started to show.

00:54:43.980 Sometimes it was hard.

00:54:45.200 Oh, yeah.

00:54:45.500 Especially with my hands hurting all the time.

00:54:47.300 I was like, man, these watermelon's, it's crazy.

00:54:50.880 Yeah.

00:54:51.120 But then we got this one that you put, like, the orange or the apple thing in, and you could go, shh.

00:54:55.480 Oh, really?

00:54:56.060 It's fancy?

00:54:56.440 And it comes out.

00:54:56.820 I like that one.

00:54:57.700 Yeah.

00:54:58.060 Chh, chh, chh.

00:54:58.700 I could do that all day.

00:54:59.740 Yeah.

00:55:00.340 Yeah, that's nothing.

00:55:02.520 Yeah, I guess if you get that fancy one, it's really nice.

00:55:05.760 I'm trying to think of what we had.

00:55:07.360 Oh, they would do baked potatoes.

00:55:09.440 Do y'all still do those sometimes?

00:55:10.740 No, we haven't did a baked potato for a long time, but I remember a long time ago we did have a baked potato.

00:55:15.100 They seemed like it.

00:55:15.900 Yeah, it was nice because they had, like, sour cream with it.

00:55:18.820 Oh, yeah.

00:55:19.540 And get you a little bit of bacon bit or whatever.

00:55:21.480 Because they didn't let you use bacon bits in our community if you was a child, first of all.

00:55:25.660 Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:55:26.200 That was an adult thing.

00:55:28.120 Bacon, yeah.

00:55:28.820 So then to get to school, when you pull up and they got a damn, you got access to bacon bits.

00:55:33.340 You're like, yeah.

00:55:35.500 Let's ride.

00:55:36.340 Hey, they're excited.

00:55:37.120 Now we give croutons.

00:55:38.600 Oh, is that a big thing for the kids now?

00:55:39.880 Yeah, we never gave croutons with a salad.

00:55:42.240 We're poor over there.

00:55:43.400 We give croutons.

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00:59:14.560 Yeah, man.

00:59:15.000 That was so much fun, man.

00:59:16.460 Going to lunch, it was kind of the best part of the day because that was your break, right?

00:59:21.500 And then do they go into recess after lunch?

00:59:24.040 Yep.

00:59:24.580 Before and after.

00:59:25.380 We give them switch.

00:59:27.040 We got 20 minutes of 20 minutes.

00:59:30.280 Some of them are outside.

00:59:31.460 Then they'll come on in.

00:59:32.500 Then those ones will go outside.

00:59:33.820 So we'll just keep going like that.

00:59:35.840 Yeah.

00:59:36.260 Tell me about, take me down some of the tough moments.

00:59:38.760 Has there ever been a food recall or something that happened where there was just a food people got sick from that day?

00:59:45.120 Was there ever just a flu that went around?

00:59:46.940 Oh, that is so funny you said that.

00:59:48.540 But so years ago, and it was quite a while, I don't know, maybe 18 years ago, we did have this problem.

00:59:55.600 And there was flu going around and everything.

00:59:57.480 And a couple kids came in the lunchroom and they threw up.

01:00:00.340 Well, that started the other kids looking at them doing it.

01:00:03.900 Next thing I know, they call, they got buses, ambulance, they got everybody pulling my food, doing it.

01:00:09.440 And I'm like, tripping.

01:00:12.280 I'm like, what?

01:00:13.620 And they're like, it's our food!

01:00:14.680 She's my desk, guys!

01:00:15.520 Oh, really?

01:00:16.000 Like you were a witch?

01:00:16.500 Yes.

01:00:16.960 Like the Salem witchcraft.

01:00:17.880 I had parents saying, don't eat the food!

01:00:19.880 And I'm like, oh my God, yes.

01:00:21.980 And then, what was that?

01:00:24.200 One guy, he was trying to come from the, and I was running with my hoodie on.

01:00:29.120 Because I was like, I've never...

01:00:30.040 The news?

01:00:30.340 Yes!

01:00:30.820 No.

01:00:31.300 Yeah, I swear.

01:00:32.360 I was tripping.

01:00:32.880 It's what you do.

01:00:33.560 That's what it is.

01:00:34.380 And they wrote this article.

01:00:35.480 And then, I don't know, a couple weeks later when they realized that they wrote this little thing,

01:00:39.640 like, it wasn't the food they were saying.

01:00:41.980 But they made me, like, look.

01:00:43.820 They didn't care.

01:00:44.120 And then, at downtown, we'd be like, and Melissa?

01:00:47.060 Tell them about that.

01:00:47.880 You know, when the kids got off.

01:00:49.260 And I'm like, what?

01:00:50.200 How?

01:00:50.560 Who's got a green brick at the stop?

01:00:52.540 Like you were Hester Prynne or something, huh?

01:00:54.160 Oh, I'm so glad that those kids are probably long gone out of it by now.

01:00:57.340 Yeah.

01:00:57.740 Because that stuck with me for a little while.

01:00:59.440 Yeah.

01:00:59.840 A little PTSD from that.

01:01:00.740 I'd be walking down the street, and yeah.

01:01:02.640 And all of a sudden, they'll be like, there she is!

01:01:04.840 And I'm like, oh my God, I did the pizza.

01:01:05.940 Oh my God!

01:01:06.460 And I start tripping.

01:01:07.180 We had the bad macaroni.

01:01:08.780 They did, yes.

01:01:09.600 Do you remember the bad macaroni of 2001?

01:01:13.880 Yeah.

01:01:14.820 Where were you?

01:01:17.360 Where were you when people ate bad macaroni?

01:01:19.340 I'm like, I ate it, and I'm okay!

01:01:22.620 You're like, I survived.

01:01:23.960 You should have made t-shirts.

01:01:25.220 I survived the macaroni of 2001.

01:01:28.140 I know, that would have been a good one.

01:01:30.080 That would have been.

01:01:31.000 People forget that there's a marketing possibility,

01:01:33.220 even within famine and disease.

01:01:36.780 Right?

01:01:37.520 And edible diseases.

01:01:39.060 Yeah.

01:01:39.440 People forget that all the time.

01:01:41.220 Yeah, because we would have, people would get,

01:01:44.700 we'd have bad milk come through,

01:01:46.760 or bad cattle would come through town.

01:01:48.440 Yeah, sometimes they're, you know.

01:01:49.740 And you get spoiled milk.

01:01:50.820 Yes.

01:01:51.320 And you had no idea why.

01:01:52.760 It could have been that the truck was parked overnight

01:01:55.700 next to something that was heating it up.

01:01:58.700 Right, right.

01:01:58.980 You just never know.

01:01:59.660 Right.

01:01:59.840 Too much time in the sun on the way there.

01:02:01.500 Something.

01:02:02.160 Yeah, something.

01:02:03.260 And everybody would just be having bad milk, you know?

01:02:06.440 Well, the kids will let me know if they trust me.

01:02:08.040 They'll let me know if they have something.

01:02:09.340 Yeah?

01:02:09.980 Yeah.

01:02:10.960 I mean, there were a couple times we got milk,

01:02:12.620 and there was like that much.

01:02:14.320 Like, the cartons, they didn't fill it up.

01:02:17.000 They kept saying,

01:02:17.620 why do all these kids want another milk?

01:02:19.160 Until I figured out it wasn't really getting there.

01:02:22.220 Yeah.

01:02:23.300 I'm like, oh, shit.

01:02:24.840 I'm telling them no.

01:02:25.800 Damn.

01:02:26.500 I'm like, now I got to get all this milk.

01:02:27.640 But that's the, look, that's how it is out in some of the, you know,

01:02:31.360 that's how it is.

01:02:32.500 Yeah, you just never know what's going to happen.

01:02:34.060 That's life, too.

01:02:34.920 You don't ever, you don't,

01:02:35.960 you always don't know the milk that you're going to get.

01:02:39.160 That's true.

01:02:39.940 Any food fights?

01:02:41.000 Kids always say, we're going to do a food fight.

01:02:42.760 It never happens.

01:02:43.640 That's what I feel like.

01:02:44.320 There's always the rumor of a food fight.

01:02:47.020 Today we're going to, and then never ends up going down.

01:02:50.660 At my school, not as much.

01:02:53.400 But I did sub at a school that's closed now a long time ago.

01:02:56.720 And the kids said food fight.

01:02:58.280 I went with mashed potatoes in my hair.

01:03:00.160 I had stuff hanging off me.

01:03:01.320 Really?

01:03:01.520 So they decided they really was going to do it.

01:03:04.560 And they did it.

01:03:05.220 And they did it.

01:03:05.840 Yeah, praise God.

01:03:06.520 And I'm like, all right, man.

01:03:08.460 I wasn't too upset with it.

01:03:09.820 It was kind of cool, you know?

01:03:10.980 Yeah.

01:03:12.100 Well, that was like the big thing.

01:03:14.120 I don't know if kids care about that anymore.

01:03:15.720 No, I don't.

01:03:16.520 Yeah.

01:03:17.280 I mean, they might throw like peelings.

01:03:20.400 I mean, they might throw as little things, but they're not like getting up, having the

01:03:23.500 big, you know, major food fight.

01:03:24.080 Yeah, they're not like, it's like a big organized thing.

01:03:25.980 Right.

01:03:26.080 Because there's always like this thing, like kids are going to organize it.

01:03:28.920 We're going to do it.

01:03:29.280 And then it comes down to it.

01:03:30.480 It never happened.

01:03:31.600 I think it was more of, wasn't there a movie that there was a food fight in?

01:03:35.640 Can you look that up?

01:03:36.640 There is.

01:03:37.140 I can't remember.

01:03:37.520 What was that movie that had a food fight in it?

01:03:40.760 It was a 90s movie.

01:03:42.260 Oh, The Great Race of Matilda.

01:03:43.660 Oh, Hook.

01:03:44.860 Hook had a great food fight in it.

01:03:46.560 Oh, yeah.

01:03:46.780 Like at the Bangarang scene.

01:03:49.660 That was very big.

01:03:50.940 Oh, Animal House.

01:03:52.200 Oh.

01:03:52.840 That was it.

01:03:53.980 I think Animal House had a huge one.

01:03:56.800 So that's, I think, it's so funny.

01:03:58.880 A lot of times you take something right back to like a popular movie or TV show.

01:04:03.520 Right, right.

01:04:03.640 And that's where it started.

01:04:04.380 Do you remember your lunch ladies from being a?

01:04:10.940 Not very many.

01:04:12.480 I don't think they were very nice then.

01:04:14.320 Really?

01:04:14.920 And one thing that I always said after I got in there was that I'm not going to be like

01:04:18.520 that because, you know, we get a rap, you know?

01:04:22.200 Really?

01:04:22.860 Yeah, because some people are, you know, they act like that mean little lunch lady.

01:04:27.960 You can only have one and catch up.

01:04:30.140 Yeah.

01:04:30.760 And I always thought I'm going to be like the cool one, you know?

01:04:34.460 So then I am.

01:04:35.360 So then I think it works out because I don't remember too many, you know, really good ones.

01:04:41.740 Yeah.

01:04:41.840 Yeah, I remember a couple of times they had, I mean, also for a lot of young men, it's,

01:04:47.680 you know, like you would think that lunch lady is pretty cute because it's the first woman

01:04:51.000 you kind of get to talk to.

01:04:52.560 Right.

01:04:53.640 That's like kind of not like a teacher or your mom.

01:04:56.380 It's like the first person that you're like, well, who is this person, you know?

01:04:59.860 And they smile at you or whatever.

01:05:02.020 You ever have a student try to like get your number or do it like you try to.

01:05:05.700 No, they might flirt a little bit like trying to get some extra chicken balls or something.

01:05:11.000 But I'm like, yeah, all right, you know, get it going, boy.

01:05:15.160 Yeah.

01:05:15.640 They're trying to pull up on them yams, huh?

01:05:17.200 Yeah, they think so.

01:05:18.740 So I'm old enough to be your great grandma.

01:05:20.380 You better roll on.

01:05:25.320 Yeah, you got to shut them down early, huh?

01:05:27.260 You know, you got to.

01:05:30.080 What about fights?

01:05:31.080 Any fights they have at school?

01:05:32.300 Are you guys allowed to get involved in that?

01:05:33.600 What's that like at school if that happens?

01:05:35.780 Well, there's fights, but you're supposed to get security.

01:05:38.160 I mean, I don't wait sometimes.

01:05:41.180 I will try.

01:05:42.320 But now with big kids, no way.

01:05:44.720 Those guys are huge.

01:05:46.700 They'll swing me across the floor somewhere.

01:05:48.320 I'm like, nope.

01:05:49.500 So I'll just go over and try to find one.

01:05:51.720 Security, go on, you know, and then they'll try.

01:05:54.480 But other people and their teachers and stuff, you know, I won't get involved.

01:05:59.200 You won't get involved.

01:05:59.700 Not the big kids, no.

01:06:00.520 So do the teachers, is there a good relationship with teachers and lunch women or lunch women

01:06:06.740 and now men because men are attacking the industry?

01:06:09.920 But is there a lot of good or are they arch nemesis of each other?

01:06:15.360 Is there like what's the energy like between lunch, lunch people and teachers?

01:06:19.620 I never thought about that.

01:06:20.580 At different schools, it'd be different.

01:06:22.280 But for me, I've got along with most of them and stuff like that.

01:06:27.320 And I have a good relationship with them, you know, because everybody wants a milk every

01:06:33.480 once in a while.

01:06:34.100 It's not mine, you know.

01:06:36.620 I guess it depends on who it is.

01:06:38.140 That's a powerful statement.

01:06:38.880 Everybody wants a milk.

01:06:39.960 You know, because they do.

01:06:41.140 And I always think when they walk in and if they're like acting mean to me, I'll be thinking,

01:06:44.820 you'll want a milk for me one day.

01:06:46.200 Yeah.

01:06:46.900 See if I give it to you.

01:06:47.880 Yeah.

01:06:48.200 You'll need me.

01:06:48.900 You'll pull up on this.

01:06:50.360 Yeah.

01:06:50.720 You'll pull up on this udder.

01:06:51.940 Yeah, that's right.

01:06:53.560 You want me to order those bag lunches for you, don't you?

01:06:56.160 Oh, it's true, huh?

01:06:56.960 Yeah.

01:06:57.320 Oh, for field trips.

01:06:58.220 That's what I said.

01:06:58.860 So some, yeah, if you'll have a couple, but not very many, but if they act a little too,

01:07:03.680 you know, it's fine because, you know, they got to come to me for something.

01:07:07.040 You got to come through.

01:07:07.700 Yeah.

01:07:08.340 That's true, huh?

01:07:09.000 I might be the little one down there.

01:07:10.960 You're like the government.

01:07:11.960 That's right.

01:07:13.420 Yeah, the food is-

01:07:14.320 You still got to pay your taxes.

01:07:15.440 Food is government.

01:07:16.520 It really is.

01:07:17.300 It really is government.

01:07:18.300 It is.

01:07:18.700 Yeah.

01:07:19.360 Well, yeah, it's like if you're in a, even in a village, when somebody comes back with

01:07:22.760 the food, that person is the government that day.

01:07:25.420 They have the food.

01:07:26.740 They determine how everything's going to go.

01:07:28.340 I always tell my ladies, I'm like, man, sometimes I walk through the hall and I think they're

01:07:31.320 looking at me like a chicken leg or something, you know?

01:07:34.040 So, yeah.

01:07:35.100 Who are you talking about?

01:07:35.700 Some of the janitors or whatever?

01:07:36.840 No, the kids, the staff, you know, it depends what they smell.

01:07:41.120 Like they, they have loaded nacho day, you know, it's like everybody's looking like

01:07:44.660 most nachos.

01:07:45.760 Yeah.

01:07:46.200 And I just could see everybody, hi, Melissa.

01:07:48.700 I'm like, uh, yeah.

01:07:50.940 They know.

01:07:51.280 So they know.

01:07:52.420 Yeah.

01:07:52.940 They know it'd be nice too.

01:07:54.160 People know where their bread is buttered.

01:07:55.300 That's what it is.

01:07:56.220 You know, just like me.

01:07:57.520 I know I need the custodian.

01:07:58.920 So you've got to be nice to them.

01:07:59.800 I need toilet paper and stuff.

01:08:01.260 So you know, you learn who you have to be good with.

01:08:03.720 When little Ricky pukes.

01:08:05.900 That's right.

01:08:06.600 You know, you're going to need to call.

01:08:07.800 Oh, you know it.

01:08:09.740 Um, yeah.

01:08:10.500 What's a field trip day like?

01:08:11.800 So how does that break down?

01:08:13.300 Well, the field trips and stuff, they order like bag lunches and.

01:08:16.560 And what goes into the bag lunch?

01:08:18.300 Um, when I make it, it's like a sandwich, a PB and J sandwich on Crustable.

01:08:23.800 Um, yeah, they love those.

01:08:26.200 And I get strawberry and grape and I kind of like them too.

01:08:28.540 So if I'm.

01:08:29.460 Y'all will make those yourselves?

01:08:30.900 No, they come.

01:08:31.960 You order from Uncrustables?

01:08:32.800 We order those, yeah.

01:08:33.660 Wow, that's nice.

01:08:34.580 Yeah, those things are pretty good.

01:08:35.680 But then I'll make a bag with those and some goldfish crackers, a string cheese, applesauce,

01:08:41.760 and some carrots.

01:08:42.600 Bam, there's our lunch.

01:08:43.720 Bam.

01:08:44.380 And they're out.

01:08:45.220 We got, I remember, meat sandwich with mustard.

01:08:48.640 Yep.

01:08:49.700 And sometimes you got extra mustard somehow.

01:08:51.820 I know.

01:08:52.580 I know.

01:08:54.220 You're like, first of all, I'm a child.

01:08:57.360 I don't eat mustard the first time.

01:08:59.340 I'm a child.

01:08:59.740 And now I get a lot of mustard.

01:09:00.660 Mustard is for Polish adults.

01:09:03.700 Let's be, let's be honest.

01:09:07.500 So there's no reason I should have to eat it.

01:09:10.960 And then you gave me more mustard.

01:09:14.760 So that would be scary.

01:09:16.360 You'd always see that one kid that would end up being an alcoholic and he'd be over there

01:09:18.740 just eating the mustard.

01:09:19.900 Oh, you know what?

01:09:20.920 We got him with the hot sauce.

01:09:22.360 Y'all got hot sauce?

01:09:23.320 Oh yeah.

01:09:23.700 Now we give hot sauce and the kids love hot sauce.

01:09:26.060 But I catch the little ones over there with the packs.

01:09:28.980 Just eating it?

01:09:29.580 Yeah.

01:09:29.840 I'm like, what is it?

01:09:30.520 Yeah, that's a lot.

01:09:31.980 Or they're keeping it in the pack.

01:09:32.940 I'm going to take this home to my dad for some hot sauce.

01:09:35.340 Like, okay.

01:09:36.460 For Christmas or whatever?

01:09:37.640 That's crazy.

01:09:38.580 Hey, you know, they ain't got no sauce.

01:09:40.500 They ain't got no sauce.

01:09:44.420 But so you pack those, you send them out on the field trip.

01:09:47.200 When?

01:09:47.500 Do you pack those the night before?

01:09:48.620 You pack them in the morning of the field trip?

01:09:50.000 I get everything ready except for the sandwich.

01:09:52.720 And then in the morning, I just throw the milk in a cooler.

01:09:55.700 How many of you have ever going?

01:09:57.000 And then put the sandwich in there and it thaws through the day so they could eat it by lunchtime.

01:10:02.620 Because you don't want to leave those out too long.

01:10:04.300 Because one thing as nasty is like the next day, you know?

01:10:08.260 It gets like hard or jelly starts to go seeping through.

01:10:12.700 So that very first day when it first just thaws, it's the best.

01:10:17.600 So you guys will put the, you mean for the lunchable, you mean?

01:10:19.920 For the crust?

01:10:21.040 Yeah, I use those for the bag lunches.

01:10:23.700 For the bag lunches.

01:10:24.600 Right.

01:10:24.840 The PB&Js.

01:10:25.720 And do they get a meat option in there or no meat option?

01:10:28.560 They used to, but I haven't had one in a while.

01:10:30.720 Okay.

01:10:31.180 Yeah.

01:10:33.180 What's some of the best things about the job?

01:10:36.540 Time goes really fast because I'm always busy.

01:10:39.800 I don't feel like it's a job job.

01:10:42.700 Even though I'm getting paid because I'm having fun.

01:10:45.680 I try to make my work fun.

01:10:47.280 Yeah.

01:10:47.780 And I make the ladies dance.

01:10:49.760 I'll tell them, oh, okay, we're getting too serious.

01:10:51.960 Stop.

01:10:52.840 Put some music on.

01:10:54.400 Start to get the groove for a minute.

01:10:56.520 We all start laughing, doing dishes, just joking.

01:10:59.080 I told them, I want this to feel comfortable.

01:11:01.580 I want us not to feel like, you know, just because we're working doesn't mean you can't have fun, you know?

01:11:07.220 So in my kitchen, it's about having fun.

01:11:10.620 Do your job and let's have fun.

01:11:12.300 You know, while we're doing it.

01:11:13.680 And then I like to act crazy around, you know, the principal or anybody.

01:11:17.460 Cause they all know me and they're like, there's, there's Melissa, you know?

01:11:21.180 So I do some crazy stuff.

01:11:23.160 Like, I don't know how to swim.

01:11:24.200 And I went on a, and she took me on a trip with her.

01:11:27.700 And her son was like, I said, I always wanted to jump in the deep water, you know?

01:11:32.080 Oh yeah.

01:11:32.780 Here he goes.

01:11:33.340 He gives me his mama's life jacket.

01:11:34.880 I put that sucker on last summer and I was diving off the diving board with little kids.

01:11:39.420 I was so excited.

01:11:40.980 First time ever.

01:11:41.760 Yeah.

01:11:42.360 I was like, yeah.

01:11:43.380 And all the kids was there waiting.

01:11:46.240 The older people were kind of like, I don't really know what she's doing.

01:11:50.340 Yeah.

01:11:50.520 Make a wish.

01:11:51.080 I was like, right?

01:11:52.140 Wow.

01:11:52.660 And you just got right out in there in the water?

01:11:54.620 Yep.

01:11:54.940 Just got right in and dove right off the diving board in it.

01:11:57.220 But once I know that, you know, I was safe.

01:11:58.820 Yeah.

01:11:58.940 You're safe.

01:11:59.480 Yeah.

01:11:59.940 Had you ever tried swimming before?

01:12:02.600 I've tried.

01:12:03.240 I'm not that great at it.

01:12:04.660 So.

01:12:04.760 Yeah.

01:12:04.940 It sounds like you're not good at it, but had you ever tried before?

01:12:07.280 Cause yeah, I was bad at swimming for a while.

01:12:08.840 I could backflow, but I, I don't.

01:12:10.800 What is backflow?

01:12:11.720 No, I've never even heard of that.

01:12:12.600 Oh, you'd be like.

01:12:15.400 That's how I'm going to do it to save my life.

01:12:17.020 I think that's called waiting for rescue.

01:12:21.960 Well, I could wait for rescue for a while, but I can't do this too long.

01:12:27.040 And I don't know how you guys are staying in there, just standing there.

01:12:29.900 I don't get it.

01:12:30.460 Well, that's magic.

01:12:31.240 If I see somebody doing that.

01:12:32.080 I just don't get it.

01:12:33.400 I'll call the cops, dude.

01:12:34.800 Right?

01:12:35.220 It's some things are just, yeah, beyond me.

01:12:37.180 A long time ago, they used to think that gay people would sink in the water and straight

01:12:40.280 people would float.

01:12:41.240 Like back in the witchcraft days.

01:12:43.480 Isn't that crazy?

01:12:44.520 Bring that up.

01:12:45.160 Look at that.

01:12:45.660 Sinking gays or whatever.

01:12:47.020 Sinking.

01:12:47.560 Sinking.

01:12:49.660 It could have.

01:12:53.980 Or yeah, sinking gays and witchcraft, if you put that in there too.

01:12:59.560 There was a lot of that.

01:13:00.920 Yeah?

01:13:01.340 Yeah.

01:13:01.640 People.

01:13:02.300 Well, they had a thing.

01:13:03.220 If you sank their float, it would determine something, you know, and they would then sometimes.

01:13:08.500 Well, shit, I sink.

01:13:09.280 So what's that mean?

01:13:10.860 What are you trying to say?

01:13:14.020 I'm not saying anything, man.

01:13:16.080 Maybe I took a wrong turn in life.

01:13:22.660 Who knows, Melissa?

01:13:23.600 I know, right?

01:13:25.280 So what's the social life like when you're outside of work?

01:13:27.920 What do you like to do for fun, personally?

01:13:29.560 What keeps you busy, you know?

01:13:30.880 Obviously, you really find a lot of joy in your work, and that's awesome, you know?

01:13:33.660 Yeah.

01:13:34.040 And it's important to notice that.

01:13:36.300 Well, they noticed.

01:13:36.920 I was employee of the year at school, too.

01:13:39.200 Oh, yeah?

01:13:39.680 In 2009.

01:13:40.940 No.

01:13:41.420 Yeah.

01:13:41.840 And the mayor's brother gave me an award.

01:13:45.460 I was like, oh, junkie.

01:13:46.080 His brother?

01:13:46.600 What's his brother doing?

01:13:47.600 I don't know.

01:13:48.480 He was there.

01:13:50.420 I guess.

01:13:52.200 Anyway, but they gave me a party and a gift card and all this.

01:13:56.660 I was like, oh, Richie.

01:13:58.200 Yeah.

01:13:58.480 Give me $100 to a steakhouse.

01:13:59.900 I was like, yeah, I'm going to get the biggest steak, you know?

01:14:02.120 Yeah.

01:14:02.800 And I felt cool, but I was a little excited, you know?

01:14:07.320 How did you know you won?

01:14:08.500 Was there finalists or what happened?

01:14:10.220 Yeah.

01:14:10.540 It was employee of the month, like all of us, like the total.

01:14:14.120 And then they said, we're going to pick one.

01:14:16.140 So I was waiting.

01:14:17.480 I was like this, waiting to eat.

01:14:19.020 You know?

01:14:19.280 I was looking at the food like, man, that looks good.

01:14:21.040 Oh, you were all at the banquet?

01:14:22.040 Hurry up, yeah.

01:14:23.100 So I was thinking, hurry up.

01:14:24.200 And did you dress up for it?

01:14:25.460 Yeah, I dressed up a little bit, but I looked a little crazy.

01:14:28.460 I always change, you know?

01:14:29.880 And I did the smile.

01:14:32.100 And it's like you can see my whole tonsils in my mouth because I smile too big because I laugh a lot.

01:14:36.380 Yeah.

01:14:37.100 And they put that picture big downtown.

01:14:39.420 So now you walk in and you see me.

01:14:41.940 And everybody's like, is that Melissa?

01:14:44.300 And I'm like, yes, that's me.

01:14:46.660 So that's the picture they picked.

01:14:48.680 I guess you can see every two of you.

01:14:50.160 I'm like, yeah, there's me.

01:14:52.040 Yeah, that's awesome.

01:14:53.340 Yeah.

01:14:53.640 But it was cool.

01:14:54.500 It was really cool, though.

01:14:57.300 Just for being funny and trying to, you know, because everybody's so serious sometimes.

01:15:02.180 Oh, yeah.

01:15:02.860 And then the big boss come out and everybody's so scared.

01:15:05.180 And we're all there to do the same thing, you know?

01:15:07.060 I just make them laugh and tell them, let's just, you know, let's just be fun.

01:15:11.820 Yeah.

01:15:13.240 Yeah, I have a lot of fond memories of going into the lunchroom.

01:15:16.520 And sometimes you would get the silverware and you would get a fork that was all banged up.

01:15:20.340 Oh, yeah.

01:15:20.800 What happened?

01:15:22.560 I don't know, but I've seen some and they look like all of them are mushed to the paper towel thing or something.

01:15:28.120 Or you'll see just the tall, the, like, the fingers of the fork will be like, you know, one of them will be way out like that.

01:15:36.900 And you're just like, what happened?

01:15:38.120 Right.

01:15:38.440 What happened?

01:15:39.340 Like, sorry, you can't have another fork.

01:15:40.800 You're going to have to eat with your finger today, bro.

01:15:42.640 We're on a crisis.

01:15:45.640 Budget cuts.

01:15:49.600 You're like, what happened?

01:15:50.960 That's what I'm saying.

01:15:52.460 Do you, what would you change about school launches, you know?

01:15:56.140 One of the biggest things I think I would change because, like I said, they're getting better, but everybody eats the same portions.

01:16:03.000 I would give the bigger kids more portions.

01:16:06.520 Okay.

01:16:07.260 I think, like, instead of that one chicken leg that everybody's getting besides, you know, the other stuff that they could get on the side, I'd give them two.

01:16:13.600 Yeah.

01:16:13.820 I just think that the bigger kids are big.

01:16:16.280 I mean, we got some big boys.

01:16:17.720 I mean, big girls, you know?

01:16:19.680 And they've got to be hungry.

01:16:21.740 That's just not enough, I don't think, you know?

01:16:23.880 But, I mean, we do have a salad bar.

01:16:25.160 They can fill up with that, but, you know, they want the meat.

01:16:27.020 They want the real deal.

01:16:27.980 Yeah.

01:16:28.540 They want a McNugget.

01:16:29.600 That's what I'm saying.

01:16:30.360 They want more of those.

01:16:31.340 So when I hook them up, they'll be like, I give them a couple more nuggets.

01:16:34.360 They're like, oh, you're my girl, you know?

01:16:36.040 And I'm like, I know.

01:16:36.840 I got you.

01:16:37.840 That feels good.

01:16:38.940 It does feel good.

01:16:39.920 But it feels good when I see kids that I go places, like to a wedding or something,

01:16:44.380 and I see all these kids that are at the wedding because I had family friends.

01:16:49.000 Oh, yeah.

01:16:49.460 I've had all the nieces and nephews.

01:16:51.160 I've had everybody go through school.

01:16:53.480 So they'll be like, I remember when you gave me that other.

01:16:55.680 Oh, she was cool.

01:16:57.000 Yeah.

01:16:57.400 That's right.

01:16:58.140 It feels good to just McNugget up a child.

01:17:01.280 Right.

01:17:01.820 Oh, it does.

01:17:02.420 You want some more fries, boy?

01:17:03.860 Here you go.

01:17:04.420 You fucking put a McNugget into a child?

01:17:05.560 They'll be talking about me.

01:17:06.440 They'll be like, man, look me up.

01:17:07.980 What's this plate?

01:17:08.600 I got some nephew children.

01:17:10.280 I'll damn McNugget them bastards up.

01:17:12.020 Oh, yeah.

01:17:12.600 God, it feels good.

01:17:13.480 It does.

01:17:13.760 It makes you rest easier.

01:17:14.700 Well, it does.

01:17:15.400 It really does.

01:17:16.200 I know that's why I said some of the kids, you know, they're hungry.

01:17:19.260 Yeah.

01:17:19.500 Or they'll tell me that they haven't ate, you know?

01:17:21.500 And do y'all play any music in there?

01:17:24.440 Spanish music, yeah.

01:17:25.760 A lot of it.

01:17:26.760 In our kitchen, we play some because, like I said, all my ladies are Spanish.

01:17:30.900 A lot of Latino co-workers, huh?

01:17:32.300 Oh, yeah.

01:17:32.860 Employees.

01:17:33.540 Yeah.

01:17:34.140 Employees.

01:17:34.580 Amazing what they could do with a broom.

01:17:36.420 Oh, yeah.

01:17:36.880 Oh, my God, they scrubbed that place with a broom.

01:17:39.000 Really?

01:17:39.660 Oh, yeah.

01:17:40.240 They're wonderful cleaners.

01:17:42.320 But-

01:17:42.580 Very true.

01:17:43.800 I have a lot of friends.

01:17:45.160 And my grandmother was a house cleaner, and my mom was too.

01:17:49.400 Oh, okay.

01:17:49.820 And then a lot of my friends' parents growing up were in the house cleaning and stuff, and

01:17:57.720 some of my Latino friends, their parents still clean houses.

01:18:00.860 I tried it for a minute.

01:18:01.920 Did you?

01:18:02.440 Yeah.

01:18:02.820 Oh, so you tried a different business.

01:18:04.640 Oh, yeah.

01:18:05.200 In the summertime, if I didn't work down at school, I did other jobs.

01:18:10.520 Oh, really?

01:18:11.260 Oh, yeah.

01:18:12.600 Like, so what are some of the summer jobs?

01:18:14.080 Nobody ever thinks about that.

01:18:15.460 What do freaking lunch ladies do during the summer?

01:18:17.540 Oh, I, I, well, the year before, because I got surgery last summer, so I was down with

01:18:23.700 my stupid carpal tunnel, my trigger fingers stuck like this.

01:18:26.340 And why do you have to get surgery?

01:18:27.940 Be honest, is it too much scooping?

01:18:29.380 Oh, yeah.

01:18:30.060 They said repetitious movements.

01:18:32.640 So now my back, you know, things, because you do them so long, sometimes it'll be burned

01:18:37.440 like, ah.

01:18:38.620 Yeah.

01:18:39.000 Yeah.

01:18:39.400 How much scoops can one wrist do overall?

01:18:42.680 Man, I don't know.

01:18:43.840 I just keep them rolling.

01:18:45.480 Really?

01:18:45.960 Like I said, you, some people are like, man, look at her, but I'll be sweating, but I'm

01:18:49.960 getting older now though.

01:18:50.980 So I may have slowed down.

01:18:52.120 That's what I mean.

01:18:52.520 I'm like.

01:18:52.740 But don't ask me to do nothing with my hands when I get home.

01:18:56.960 Hey, look.

01:19:00.220 My wrist hurt.

01:19:01.380 Hey, look.

01:19:03.520 No wonder your guy went to prison.

01:19:07.580 You got to do what you got to do.

01:19:09.300 Well, that's what I'm saying.

01:19:10.280 I know.

01:19:10.960 I'm sorry.

01:19:12.620 I just got to.

01:19:13.880 I've served all I'm serving, honey.

01:19:15.860 That's it.

01:19:16.480 No more seconds.

01:19:18.240 No more firsts.

01:19:19.500 Right.

01:19:19.820 But no, I just try to go fast because I've watched people and they'll be like, we got

01:19:26.520 600 kids.

01:19:27.980 I'm like, dude, you got to move, right?

01:19:29.700 Keep going.

01:19:30.860 But people say it's not fast.

01:19:32.760 What is a kid that comes in that's kind of heartbroken?

01:19:34.800 You ever notice a kid that's having a tough time?

01:19:36.440 Have you ever had like a moment?

01:19:37.240 Oh, I run right over.

01:19:38.440 Yeah.

01:19:38.680 Oh, gosh.

01:19:39.160 Yeah.

01:19:39.580 And what is some of that?

01:19:40.460 Are you ever able to like over time, do you be able to pinpoint some of the commonalities

01:19:44.100 of what some of those moments are like?

01:19:45.420 A lot of it is like another kid don't like them.

01:19:48.500 Yeah.

01:19:48.820 Like they're getting picked on or they want to be friends with this child and they don't

01:19:53.580 want to be friends with them.

01:19:54.480 Oh, it's so, isn't that so big to kids?

01:19:56.300 It's very, yeah.

01:19:57.580 And I'm like looking, but then to them, it's so big.

01:20:00.440 Yeah.

01:20:01.200 So I always tell them, you know, if they don't want it, it's okay.

01:20:03.980 You know, don't worry about it.

01:20:05.140 They'll be liking you tomorrow.

01:20:06.640 You know what I mean?

01:20:07.480 This and that.

01:20:08.300 Just try to make them feel better and they get over it.

01:20:10.420 And then you see them talking to their, they'll be best friends tomorrow.

01:20:13.240 Yeah.

01:20:13.260 They just need help getting through that moment.

01:20:14.480 They just need to get through.

01:20:15.220 And it is.

01:20:15.940 And they're, yeah.

01:20:16.620 Yeah.

01:20:17.100 So whenever we do see one down, we, I immediately want to go over to that one and see why.

01:20:22.400 Yeah.

01:20:22.800 Especially since we got a lot of kids that are smiling like me and bubbly when I see

01:20:27.100 them.

01:20:27.380 So if they're not bubbly, just like they do the same thing to me.

01:20:30.020 If I come to work and I'm not feeling it that day, like there's just something wrong,

01:20:34.320 they can fill it.

01:20:35.260 Oh, they'll lift you up.

01:20:35.980 Oh, they come in and they're like, Ms. Melissa, you're right.

01:20:38.260 Cause they know that I'm not laughing.

01:20:40.220 Don't hear that big, loud laugh everywhere.

01:20:42.160 Then there's something wrong with Melissa that day.

01:20:44.260 That's true.

01:20:45.080 Yeah.

01:20:45.200 She, I didn't hear her laugh too much.

01:20:46.960 So.

01:20:48.060 Yeah.

01:20:48.600 That's interesting.

01:20:49.240 You know, we're the keys to each other's locks.

01:20:51.100 That's what my buddy always says.

01:20:52.920 He always says that.

01:20:53.480 Oh yeah, they, they do.

01:20:54.260 They, they can pick up on it.

01:20:55.900 What are some of the other summer jobs you've had?

01:20:57.660 God, I can't believe I never knew that.

01:20:59.960 That those beautiful women were wandering off into our town and doing other employment.

01:21:06.500 I was a secretary, uh, which sitting down isn't my strong word.

01:21:12.220 It's not your thing, huh?

01:21:13.260 No, I was like, man, let me clean this place.

01:21:15.060 I don't want to be a secretary anymore.

01:21:16.280 I'll clean your place.

01:21:16.940 Okay, girl, you got to get up.

01:21:19.100 Yeah.

01:21:19.780 I can't just sit.

01:21:20.920 It's crazy.

01:21:21.980 That's too much for me.

01:21:23.600 Um, I've, uh, worked at Dave's grocery store, cashier.

01:21:28.320 And I like that.

01:21:29.220 I was a cashier for a bit.

01:21:30.280 I liked it.

01:21:30.940 All these people coming through and stuff.

01:21:32.200 I'm like, what's up?

01:21:33.380 Yeah.

01:21:33.820 It is pretty fun.

01:21:34.660 Cashier was fun.

01:21:36.060 Stocking was fun.

01:21:36.780 I didn't love getting the carts a lot of times.

01:21:38.560 I didn't like to get the, the, the carts and putting the stuff back.

01:21:43.380 And sometimes they were wet and you're like, well, what, it hadn't even been raining.

01:21:46.100 Why is this car all wet?

01:21:47.100 Yeah.

01:21:47.320 You wonder what you're touching.

01:21:48.960 Yeah.

01:21:49.280 Just people are gross.

01:21:50.440 I'm doing take backs and I think they're peeling, they're opening.

01:21:53.320 I'm like, oh.

01:21:54.620 It would be very hectic.

01:21:56.140 A lot of you never know what they're doing.

01:21:57.840 Oh yeah.

01:21:58.260 It just felt insane.

01:21:59.360 Like it was like a lot of eustachian fluid or something.

01:22:01.440 I don't even, I don't even know.

01:22:02.760 But yeah, but a lot of times it's very confusing.

01:22:04.440 Then I cleaned, I cleaned some houses and that one was kind of fun.

01:22:08.460 Unless her house was really dirty.

01:22:10.000 Yeah.

01:22:10.240 Some people.

01:22:10.600 And they, you know, these were some richy people and I'm like, yeah.

01:22:13.980 But one time this old lady made me a sandwich, let me go in her pool.

01:22:16.620 That was really cool.

01:22:17.600 Uh-uh.

01:22:18.080 Yeah.

01:22:18.840 Why?

01:22:19.100 Was it your birthday or something?

01:22:20.300 No.

01:22:21.060 She just must've liked me because we started talking, you know?

01:22:23.840 Uh-huh.

01:22:24.180 Yeah.

01:22:24.620 And sometimes I'll just make a friend and I get invited to a party.

01:22:27.500 Yeah?

01:22:27.940 Heck yeah.

01:22:28.780 Real easy?

01:22:29.400 Oh yeah.

01:22:30.280 Wow.

01:22:30.720 Yeah.

01:22:31.100 I get around somebody else and their friend is like, hey, you want to come to?

01:22:34.080 I'm like, yeah, all right.

01:22:36.200 You know, I can be sitting at home doing nothing, having nothing.

01:22:38.980 Then bam, I'm at a party eating shrimp and drinking the limoes.

01:22:42.640 So I'm like, this is insane.

01:22:44.420 Yeah.

01:22:44.720 So you never know what's going to happen.

01:22:46.120 Your day can change.

01:22:47.200 Yeah.

01:22:47.440 Yeah.

01:22:47.760 Your day can change.

01:22:48.500 That's a great point.

01:22:49.560 Yeah.

01:22:50.000 Rich, fancy.

01:22:50.760 Yeah.

01:22:51.000 Fancy people love shrimp.

01:22:52.400 I feel like.

01:22:53.060 Yeah, they do.

01:22:54.080 And they like me.

01:22:55.340 Yeah.

01:22:55.920 Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.

01:22:57.740 So I like it.

01:22:58.760 Yeah.

01:23:00.620 So where's your son at now?

01:23:02.080 Is he?

01:23:03.200 My son, he's a cable man in Maslin.

01:23:06.320 And he told me to tell you because he's a big fan.

01:23:09.400 All them guys watch you.

01:23:10.660 Oh, praise me.

01:23:11.620 Yeah.

01:23:11.720 Tell myself, what's up?

01:23:12.480 What's his name?

01:23:13.220 Joe.

01:23:13.780 Joe.

01:23:14.180 That's what's up.

01:23:14.960 Joe Ansel?

01:23:15.980 Joe Rocca.

01:23:16.780 Joe Rocca.

01:23:17.860 Yeah.

01:23:19.520 Wow.

01:23:19.940 It sounds like he should be in prison.

01:23:21.420 It's that name.

01:23:22.160 Joe Rocca, right?

01:23:23.600 Yeah.

01:23:23.900 And I don't mean that.

01:23:24.680 Don't go to prison, Joe.

01:23:25.880 No.

01:23:26.460 We want you out here.

01:23:27.420 But hey, if you go away, bro.

01:23:29.920 Ah, I'll send you commissary, son.

01:23:32.600 Free Joey.

01:23:33.500 I got your mother.

01:23:34.600 You feel me, though?

01:23:36.160 Ah, that's a good one.

01:23:37.560 Like, free Willie.

01:23:38.200 Free Joey, dude.

01:23:40.700 Yeah.

01:23:41.060 And he's married.

01:23:43.160 I got a great teacher, daughter-in-law.

01:23:47.120 Oh, she's a teacher?

01:23:47.840 Oh, yeah.

01:23:48.320 No way.

01:23:48.820 At your school?

01:23:49.380 After I've been around.

01:23:50.080 Nope.

01:23:50.480 She's in Massland.

01:23:51.260 I'm in Cleveland.

01:23:52.020 Wow.

01:23:52.380 Yeah, she's from the better part, and I'm from the ghetto.

01:23:54.560 So we, like, share our stories.

01:23:56.340 Mm-hmm.

01:23:57.180 Yeah, we watch her little kids, like, and then you go to mine, you know, and you got it.

01:24:01.920 It's two different, very-

01:24:03.800 Different universes.

01:24:04.560 Different universes.

01:24:05.400 And I've been to both of them, so it's really funny to see.

01:24:08.360 Oh, you have?

01:24:09.000 Oh, yeah.

01:24:09.540 I've went to places because I got grandkids.

01:24:11.540 Oh, so you've worked at other schools in your own?

01:24:14.280 No, I've subbed, but I've went to other schools with her.

01:24:18.360 Oh, I see.

01:24:19.300 See what it's like.

01:24:20.100 Yeah, to see what it was like.

01:24:21.360 So lunch ladies will sub at another school?

01:24:25.200 Back in the day, they did, but there was a point when I just stopped.

01:24:29.040 Yeah.

01:24:29.240 Because I have a home plate, and I didn't have to do it no more, you know.

01:24:32.140 That was for the other people.

01:24:33.840 So they still send subs and stuff, you know, around, but I quit subbing.

01:24:38.360 And do you get, at a certain point, do you get a pension?

01:24:43.240 Do lunch ladies get a pension?

01:24:44.000 Oh, yeah.

01:24:44.460 Yeah?

01:24:44.740 Yeah, I get SERS.

01:24:46.100 It's, like, a retirement plan.

01:24:48.260 Uh-huh.

01:24:48.980 So, S-E-R-S.

01:24:51.100 And how long does that take to build up?

01:24:52.760 I don't know anything about it.

01:24:53.780 Well, like, I've got 31, but my age.

01:24:58.200 So, like, when I'm 57, I'll have 35 years, and I can retire with the full benefits and

01:25:03.760 cheaper insurance and all that.

01:25:05.380 But my age is still there, you know what I mean?

01:25:08.040 I'm not going to be 65, so I couldn't get Medicaid and all that.

01:25:12.840 So there's a little, because I started too early.

01:25:15.840 But hopefully, I could, as long as I'm healthy and running, I want to keep running.

01:25:19.240 You can keep working.

01:25:19.860 Oh, yeah.

01:25:20.440 I don't want to sit at home.

01:25:21.820 What am I going to do at home?

01:25:22.540 Eat bomb bombs and get fat?

01:25:24.300 Yeah.

01:25:25.280 Yeah, just be, yeah, you just sit.

01:25:26.880 Yeah, there's nothing to do.

01:25:27.900 And then, no, my brain won't quit talking.

01:25:30.100 It's like, oh, I got to go.

01:25:31.620 Yeah.

01:25:32.180 It's much better to talk to people than myself all the time, you know what I'm saying?

01:25:35.760 Yeah.

01:25:36.500 Did you ever try to go into your own business at any point, or do you like working with

01:25:40.120 a group?

01:25:40.920 No.

01:25:41.760 I like the group.

01:25:42.500 I've never really tried.

01:25:43.680 Yeah?

01:25:44.420 Yeah.

01:25:44.980 I just didn't know if that was something that different people think about or not,

01:25:48.260 or sometimes do or don't think about.

01:25:49.000 Well, if I could have thought of something, you know, but I mean, I didn't know what else

01:25:53.040 I would be good at.

01:25:57.060 I mean, I'm sure I could have probably did something else, but.

01:25:59.760 Yeah, I think, yeah.

01:26:00.460 I mean, it's smart and I liked other jobs, but, you know, this is where I've been.

01:26:04.100 Yeah.

01:26:04.360 Some of this.

01:26:04.880 I think it makes me more happy, too, to be around so many people.

01:26:07.980 That's what I was thinking, because doing your own thing can definitely be the other

01:26:11.600 side of the tracks.

01:26:12.440 You know, you just really, you can isolate a lot.

01:26:14.700 Right, right, right.

01:26:15.960 Any parents ever confront the lunch staff about anything?

01:26:19.100 Does that ever happen?

01:26:19.720 Oh, yeah.

01:26:21.280 A couple times through the years.

01:26:23.560 I don't think a lot of principal stuff wouldn't, like, let them, you know, but I've had fathers

01:26:29.160 or something ask me something, you know.

01:26:31.020 Like angry about a soup or angry about a porridge or something?

01:26:33.660 My kid said that he didn't like that, knew something, you know, and it's like.

01:26:39.800 Y'all serving bad lamb or something.

01:26:41.900 You know, and I'm like, but not too many with me.

01:26:45.560 I mean, I even talk to a lot of the parents because I've seen the kids so long.

01:26:48.640 Yeah.

01:26:49.020 So I try to be friendly with all of them, explain if they ask me something, but I don't

01:26:53.900 try to get into too much riffraff because, you know, I live in the New York.

01:26:57.120 Right.

01:26:57.560 So you want to keep things PC.

01:26:58.820 That's right.

01:26:59.440 Wow.

01:26:59.600 You want to be seeing me up at the grocery store with some parents like, yeah, there she

01:27:03.520 is.

01:27:05.020 Gosh, you're kind of like the Don Corleona.

01:27:07.380 Right.

01:27:07.980 You know, I don't even know.

01:27:11.320 I noticed in nature, a lot of animals will kind of like fatten up for winter or whatever.

01:27:15.780 Does that happen with children too?

01:27:17.320 Do you think?

01:27:17.840 Yeah, I think so.

01:27:19.620 I do.

01:27:20.020 I think that they eat and they get more in them for it.

01:27:22.600 And the summertime, they're like wanting to run around so much out there.

01:27:25.800 I see that they eat less and I see their lunch.

01:27:28.920 The garbage is heavier in the summer than it is in the winter.

01:27:32.260 I made a comment once and I'm like, wow, I noticed that.

01:27:36.280 Huh.

01:27:36.720 Yeah.

01:27:37.140 Because they want to run outside, I think.

01:27:38.920 So you think in the summer they're throwing more stuff away, whereas in the winter they're

01:27:41.900 eating it.

01:27:42.360 Yeah, because they want to.

01:27:43.000 Yeah, I do.

01:27:44.280 Because they're sitting there and there's nothing else to do.

01:27:46.360 They're not going outside.

01:27:47.740 You know, but when they're like raring to go and it's beautiful out like you, you'd be

01:27:52.420 like, oh, forget it.

01:27:53.200 I don't want to finish this, you know?

01:27:54.980 Yeah.

01:27:55.500 I mean, not me.

01:27:56.180 I'm going to eat it real fast and then go.

01:27:57.760 But you know.

01:27:58.260 That's a good point.

01:27:58.700 Some kids are like, oh, it's too much fun out there.

01:28:00.660 Right.

01:28:00.720 That's what I mean.

01:28:01.020 When you can feel your body wanting to go play like hide and go seek or something.

01:28:03.700 Oh, yeah.

01:28:03.960 But you have to eat.

01:28:04.660 Oh, it's the worst for a kid.

01:28:05.860 Right.

01:28:06.360 It's like, God, I don't want to be eating right now.

01:28:07.880 I could be having fun.

01:28:08.820 Yeah, you know it.

01:28:10.660 What are the kids?

01:28:11.520 Do they interact when they're at the table together and stuff?

01:28:13.960 Like what do kids do?

01:28:14.840 Or they just kind of eat their lunch?

01:28:16.440 No, they talk, argue.

01:28:20.040 Yeah, they interact with each other and stuff through the whole lunch period and stuff like

01:28:26.400 that.

01:28:30.200 I can't really, I'm like dumb for a minute.

01:28:33.640 I've been dumb for so long here.

01:28:35.920 Take a minute.

01:28:37.120 All right.

01:28:37.540 Yeah.

01:28:38.400 Do you ever see like milk come out of a kid's nose?

01:28:41.140 People always say that.

01:28:42.820 Oh, I saw that a couple times.

01:28:44.280 Yeah?

01:28:44.480 Oh, yeah.

01:28:45.120 And the other day, it was just funny, just the other day, they're coming through the

01:28:49.960 lunch line and they were playing outside too hard and the little boy just throwing up

01:28:53.420 right in my lunch.

01:28:53.940 Oh, yeah.

01:28:55.460 And I'm like, okay, I'm going to look up and everybody's like, Melissa, I can't look.

01:28:58.200 And I'm like, well, come on, guys.

01:28:59.480 Let's hurry up.

01:29:00.260 Let's do this.

01:29:00.860 Let's get them out of here.

01:29:01.660 Yeah.

01:29:01.960 And I'm telling the little ones, quit looking.

01:29:03.280 They're like.

01:29:04.180 Oh, yeah.

01:29:05.680 But yeah, when stuff starts coming out of their nose because they're laughing or, yeah, they

01:29:10.180 probably think of other things that they're going to do, you know.

01:29:12.340 And you got to tell them, don't take that food because it's going to get warm and then

01:29:15.860 you'll get sick.

01:29:16.820 Yeah.

01:29:18.300 Yeah.

01:29:18.720 Kids, I think they're, and they're just so like energetic at the time.

01:29:22.580 They'll vomit for no reason a lot of times.

01:29:24.960 Like somebody just pats them on the back or on.

01:29:26.940 I know.

01:29:27.500 That's what I was saying.

01:29:28.620 I said that.

01:29:29.300 Yeah.

01:29:30.020 See, I have the same one still throwing on.

01:29:32.400 He better quit playing.

01:29:34.800 I would like to him to eat first before he goes outside.

01:29:37.280 Yeah.

01:29:38.560 And then let's put a diaper.

01:29:39.820 Yeah.

01:29:40.120 That's right.

01:29:40.900 Are kids allowed to bring phones in school these days?

01:29:44.840 Yes.

01:29:45.280 No way.

01:29:46.260 Yeah.

01:29:46.780 They're supposed to not use this and that, but.

01:29:51.040 So some of them have phones out during the day?

01:29:53.400 I see kids with phones.

01:29:54.760 No way.

01:29:56.160 I cannot even imagine that.

01:29:58.920 Yeah.

01:29:59.180 I never had a phone back then.

01:30:01.060 Yeah.

01:30:01.960 Right.

01:30:02.500 That was such a better vibe, I feel like.

01:30:04.260 Yeah.

01:30:04.460 Me too.

01:30:04.920 I think there's too much on, on the phones.

01:30:08.160 Yeah.

01:30:08.540 What would you change about like the lunches that we serve to kids?

01:30:11.920 Anything or do you feel pretty good about them?

01:30:13.840 Right now I'm feeling a little bit better about them.

01:30:16.200 Like I said, this year, because there is bringing out more different things that I think the kids

01:30:20.800 would like.

01:30:21.380 Um, we do a general so's and rice.

01:30:24.540 Um, I just.

01:30:25.880 General so's chicken?

01:30:26.840 Yeah.

01:30:27.500 Oh my.

01:30:27.840 It's good.

01:30:28.200 I love it.

01:30:29.400 I'd be messing it up on general so's day.

01:30:31.080 Yeah.

01:30:31.580 Yeah.

01:30:32.160 There's certain days that I get excited, you know, cause I'm like, oh, I'm going to eat

01:30:35.280 that.

01:30:35.640 No.

01:30:36.540 So.

01:30:36.900 And will y'all save a little bit of the better side of things for yourselves?

01:30:40.980 I mean, I might have a little bit more sauce on mine.

01:30:45.500 Hey, you know, I made it.

01:30:48.640 I think that's fair.

01:30:49.980 So, yeah, I think that we, I do really believe that this year I think is like one of the best

01:30:54.960 with it's coming with lunches and stuff for the variety of different things that we

01:30:59.000 have.

01:30:59.760 So he's, he's moving up.

01:31:01.200 Like I said, I'm, I'm interested to see more of what he does.

01:31:04.360 The new guy that's.

01:31:05.900 The new food guy.

01:31:07.520 Cause he's the order.

01:31:08.480 He's the boss.

01:31:09.220 He's the boss of like changing all that.

01:31:11.460 And I've worked with, I've worked for about four different ones so far.

01:31:15.460 Each one brings something different to the table, but right now I'm liking what he's

01:31:19.120 bringing.

01:31:19.480 You know what I mean?

01:31:20.140 What was one of the craziest things you guys ever served over the years?

01:31:23.460 Um, the hot dog that used to be in the beans and it would turn colors.

01:31:30.580 And I had parents and aunts and people old to this day.

01:31:34.360 So they asked me about those green hot dogs.

01:31:35.900 With the beans.

01:31:36.500 Really?

01:31:37.020 Yeah.

01:31:37.340 But I liked it, but it did it.

01:31:38.880 It would like turn some color because it was stuck in the beans.

01:31:42.480 Yeah.

01:31:43.340 Well, that's nature.

01:31:44.500 I know.

01:31:45.060 That's what I said.

01:31:45.720 I would like, it's probably preservatives or something in it.

01:31:48.660 I don't know.

01:31:49.300 Oh, some of that's just natural preservatives.

01:31:51.780 But yeah, I mean, um, we had this egg roll that was really, yeah, there, there's, there's

01:31:55.660 been a couple items that I would have been like, uh, no.

01:31:59.160 And I eat everything.

01:32:00.060 Yeah.

01:32:00.300 I'm like Mikey and there's nothing I wouldn't eat.

01:32:02.540 Oh, you, uh, they had an egg roll too for a while.

01:32:05.920 Yeah.

01:32:06.380 Ooh.

01:32:06.900 Yeah.

01:32:07.040 The kids didn't really care for that egg roll.

01:32:08.920 So bizarre.

01:32:09.900 Yeah.

01:32:10.180 I remember the bread they used to have.

01:32:12.220 So the bread was always made in one big pan, right?

01:32:14.800 It was like a whole pan full of rolls and ours always had this dust on them and people

01:32:19.360 would be like, that's flour.

01:32:20.320 And I'd be like, it doesn't seem like flour.

01:32:22.360 It just seems like dust.

01:32:23.640 Oh, that's too far.

01:32:24.380 Yeah.

01:32:24.660 So, so we were wrapping our rolls and some of them will come like that, you know, with

01:32:28.580 a whole bunch of, and I said to someone, what is it?

01:32:31.300 They're like, just flour.

01:32:32.400 That's a lot of flour on there.

01:32:34.260 And the kids will see it.

01:32:35.440 And I'm like, they're not going to believe it's flour.

01:32:38.020 I said, it looks gross.

01:32:39.700 I don't want to stir that one.

01:32:41.900 It's just flour.

01:32:43.300 We didn't believe.

01:32:44.020 Exactly.

01:32:44.320 That's exactly.

01:32:45.080 That's terrible.

01:32:45.500 I was just kind of like, I'm trying to think of the ones.

01:32:48.440 Oh, we had a couple of these different ones.

01:32:50.000 That one, uh, look, can you look up, um,

01:32:53.580 dusty school lunch rolls?

01:32:55.860 Yeah.

01:32:57.980 Is that what he's looking up?

01:32:58.900 Dusty school lunch rolls?

01:32:59.880 Dusty school lunch rolls.

01:33:02.100 Lunch rolls.

01:33:02.920 Yeah.

01:33:03.400 Maybe soft red rolls.

01:33:05.240 But you know, I've had the kids tell me, let's look what's up.

01:33:08.620 What's on this?

01:33:09.420 And I'm like, it's flour.

01:33:11.420 Because that's what they tell me.

01:33:13.780 It's flour.

01:33:14.480 I mean, it is flour.

01:33:15.580 It doesn't seem like flour.

01:33:16.560 It seems like science dust or something.

01:33:18.260 Yeah.

01:33:19.320 Maybe yeasty dust.

01:33:20.560 I don't know what it is.

01:33:21.480 Yeah.

01:33:21.680 It could be some powder, something to use.

01:33:22.820 Sometimes I thought it would be like a powdered butter or something that I'd be putting on.

01:33:27.020 But I could never figure it out.

01:33:28.620 And they were never, they never got the rolls really that good.

01:33:31.840 I didn't feel like.

01:33:32.880 Yeah.

01:33:33.520 Um, we get different rolls like, and bread.

01:33:37.480 We order from different departments at different times.

01:33:39.980 We had swables once.

01:33:41.260 We had this.

01:33:41.960 So the bread's not too bad, but you always find some that comes in, like you just said,

01:33:46.940 with a whole pile of dust.

01:33:49.760 I'd be like, was it a hamburger bun?

01:33:52.000 It's covered.

01:33:53.020 And yeah, that's what it was too.

01:33:54.660 I would be like, look, all this white.

01:33:56.280 It was the hamburger buns a lot of times.

01:33:57.740 I think when they make them, they must just throw that flour at them after they unpack them.

01:34:01.900 It was crazy.

01:34:02.340 But it does look funny because people don't want to eat that because, you know.

01:34:05.320 Yeah.

01:34:05.580 And kids do make those comments.

01:34:07.060 They notice anything on the food, anything.

01:34:09.020 If it looks just a little strange or something, they're going to make a comment on it, you know.

01:34:13.060 So, but I hate to be like one of those, you know, it's just flour.

01:34:17.040 I'm like, because everybody says it.

01:34:18.260 You feel like it's not.

01:34:19.180 I know, but I'm like, I don't know.

01:34:20.480 But is it?

01:34:21.020 Is it?

01:34:23.000 Do you guys ever serve sloppy joes ever?

01:34:26.020 We did.

01:34:27.280 We haven't this year or whatever, but there was years we did.

01:34:30.380 Some of the kids liked it.

01:34:31.860 But we had a teacher there years ago, and he did a little skit with me on this sloppy joes.

01:34:38.820 Oh, yeah, about Adam Taylor?

01:34:40.400 Yeah.

01:34:40.880 And I wore the white.

01:34:43.080 When I first started, they gave me that white dress and all that.

01:34:47.080 And you had to look.

01:34:48.080 Yeah.

01:34:48.260 Oh, you had to dress a certain way?

01:34:49.800 Yeah.

01:34:50.300 But well, thank goodness that didn't last long for me.

01:34:52.640 Pull up that outfit, brother.

01:34:53.340 We switched.

01:34:53.940 Yeah.

01:34:54.120 Go on with that one until I eat white dress.

01:34:56.520 And I'm young now.

01:34:57.540 And I'm like, what do you look like with these loafers shoes on this?

01:35:02.700 Oh, you had to wear the white shoes?

01:35:04.860 Yes.

01:35:05.320 I remember those.

01:35:06.280 And I sort of left.

01:35:06.720 They were like K-Swisses or something, sneakers.

01:35:08.820 Exactly.

01:35:09.460 Right there.

01:35:11.060 Oh, it's nice.

01:35:11.820 That's what they gave me.

01:35:13.140 One of those white, white.

01:35:14.500 Wow.

01:35:15.000 And so we did a little skit or whatever.

01:35:18.340 It's around there somewhere on YouTube.

01:35:20.080 Somewhere.

01:35:20.540 Who knows where it's at?

01:35:22.020 But I put a mole on and all that.

01:35:25.480 Oh, and be the lunch.

01:35:26.380 Do sloppy joes?

01:35:27.560 Yeah.

01:35:28.520 So it was fun.

01:35:30.000 But they never serve them anymore, huh?

01:35:31.420 No, they haven't served sloppy joes for a long time.

01:35:33.720 And the kids seemed to like it.

01:35:35.340 Yeah.

01:35:35.560 And it was the only place you could get it at was school.

01:35:37.320 That's what I'm saying.

01:35:38.220 And it was such a bizarre thing.

01:35:39.580 You were like, I don't even know what it is.

01:35:41.120 It's like a.

01:35:41.500 It's magic meat.

01:35:42.740 Like, you know.

01:35:43.880 What it really is.

01:35:45.600 It's like, it's not a hamburger.

01:35:47.140 It's just a.

01:35:47.680 Are you sure?

01:35:48.440 Is that a sauce?

01:35:49.560 We name them different things.

01:35:51.100 Yeah.

01:35:51.560 But we just change a little.

01:35:54.760 Well, you could always kind of tell.

01:35:56.160 Is there stuff that if there's leftovers from the first day, then you'll use it in different

01:35:59.140 recipes throughout the week?

01:36:00.100 Yeah.

01:36:00.360 Huh?

01:36:01.080 Because you don't want to waste stuff.

01:36:02.280 No.

01:36:02.760 All hot food's got to be thrown.

01:36:04.480 Oh, really?

01:36:05.020 Yeah.

01:36:05.320 That's just.

01:36:05.760 This is why you're like, if you're the manager, you have to know not to overcook too much because

01:36:11.220 they don't want to throw in there.

01:36:12.860 Right?

01:36:14.180 But they like pasta and meatballs.

01:36:18.400 Yeah.

01:36:19.260 Oh, those meatballs, boy.

01:36:21.120 They're hard to deal with?

01:36:22.180 Yeah.

01:36:22.620 For my hands.

01:36:24.160 They seem to want to just throw.

01:36:25.880 Then I start singing to the kids and I drop my poor meatball and be rolling.

01:36:29.660 Oh, from that song?

01:36:30.880 Yeah.

01:36:32.200 What was it?

01:36:32.660 That was a book, wasn't it?

01:36:33.680 It was a song for a meatball.

01:36:35.360 When somebody sneezed and rolled off the table and not to the floor, then my more meatball

01:36:39.960 was out the door.

01:36:40.740 I remember that.

01:36:43.640 We like to tease them and joke.

01:36:44.880 On top of spaghetti.

01:36:45.800 Spaghetti.

01:36:46.440 Yeah, it is.

01:36:47.360 Spaghetti.

01:36:48.120 Spaghetti.

01:36:49.640 This coconut cake.

01:36:52.520 And they love the mac and cheese.

01:36:53.460 Never mind.

01:36:54.320 They love the mac and cheese?

01:36:55.380 Yeah.

01:36:56.520 They love the mac and cheese.

01:36:58.420 God, who doesn't, though?

01:36:59.820 Right.

01:37:00.080 I was just going to say, who don't like cheese, you know?

01:37:02.460 Anything you got to put cheese on is good.

01:37:03.980 Yeah.

01:37:04.420 So.

01:37:04.940 Yeah, that's really the thing that everybody loves.

01:37:06.900 How big is y'all's school these days?

01:37:09.440 Well.

01:37:09.640 So you're at the side school now.

01:37:11.320 Yeah, I'm at the side school, but we're doing 600.

01:37:13.660 But when we go back to this new one that they're building down the road for me, it's

01:37:17.820 going to be huge.

01:37:19.060 And then they're going to take two, take and knock down the school, down the road and put

01:37:24.540 two schools to one.

01:37:25.640 So I should have over a thousand by then.

01:37:27.700 Wow.

01:37:28.020 But hopefully I get more help, you know?

01:37:30.440 Yeah.

01:37:30.840 The short staff ain't what you want to hear all the time.

01:37:33.600 That's true.

01:37:34.140 And you've already had carpal tunnel.

01:37:35.220 You've already.

01:37:35.560 You know, that's what I said.

01:37:36.720 I'll just keep going.

01:37:37.860 Yeah.

01:37:38.040 I'll figure it out.

01:37:38.440 You're like the Aaron Rodgers of the Lunch Lady industry.

01:37:40.160 Right.

01:37:40.580 Yeah, I know.

01:37:41.280 Right?

01:37:42.700 That's good.

01:37:43.580 I like it.

01:37:44.160 You really are.

01:37:44.920 Right.

01:37:45.380 But we need you back out there.

01:37:46.840 What happened during the time off with the surgery?

01:37:49.360 Well, I did the summer.

01:37:50.920 I didn't take off because I don't like to really miss work.

01:37:54.360 So I didn't take off.

01:37:55.740 I just went and had the surgery right after we got out of school.

01:38:00.560 But then it wasn't really healing as good.

01:38:03.220 I think I messed it up a little bit as I went back earlier, you know?

01:38:06.500 Did you?

01:38:07.180 Yeah, but it's all right, you know.

01:38:09.300 It's hard not to use your hands.

01:38:11.320 I mean.

01:38:11.920 Yeah.

01:38:12.260 It's hard.

01:38:13.040 I mean, if I try, if you put a hand, it's too hard.

01:38:16.640 So this one, I just got a shot.

01:38:17.740 Roosters do it or like chickens.

01:38:19.360 Kind of do it.

01:38:19.940 Right?

01:38:21.760 Yeah.

01:38:22.100 If I could be like a chicken.

01:38:23.180 But they're dumb.

01:38:23.460 I don't want to say they're dumb.

01:38:24.320 I don't know a lot of them.

01:38:25.260 Some of them are.

01:38:26.380 Yeah.

01:38:26.560 I mean.

01:38:27.180 A lot of them are B-U-M-B.

01:38:30.700 I don't want them to hear me say it.

01:38:32.240 I know, right?

01:38:33.100 One of my Chase after you.

01:38:35.640 We see chickens all the time.

01:38:37.460 Yeah.

01:38:37.860 And I watch them cross the street and then come back.

01:38:40.320 Yeah.

01:38:40.700 Yeah.

01:38:40.880 People got chickens everywhere.

01:38:42.340 Really?

01:38:42.620 By you?

01:38:42.920 Yeah.

01:38:43.660 Huh.

01:38:43.940 I wonder why.

01:38:45.660 I don't know.

01:38:46.720 For the eggs, I think.

01:38:48.040 Yeah.

01:38:48.220 Probably sell the eggs.

01:38:49.680 Maybe they're going to get a golden egg.

01:38:51.620 Yeah.

01:38:51.900 My sister has some chickens in her home, I think.

01:38:55.640 Or she did anyway.

01:38:56.900 Some of them might have gotten out.

01:38:59.180 What else?

01:38:59.740 Anything in the news?

01:39:00.720 Let me think of something I was going to ask you about.

01:39:02.940 I'm still looking for floating gay witches.

01:39:06.700 Yeah.

01:39:06.900 Will you look at gay?

01:39:09.620 Floating gay witches.

01:39:10.160 You know what?

01:39:10.680 Yes.

01:39:11.040 Anything on that sinking gay witchcraft?

01:39:14.900 I found not the gay part, but the witch part you're spot on about.

01:39:19.140 He said not the gay part.

01:39:20.080 Bring it up.

01:39:20.680 The ordeal usually involved the tying of a suspect's wrist to their ankles and then throwing the individual into a body of water with ropes attached.

01:39:29.840 Wow.

01:39:30.020 So you had to sink.

01:39:46.060 So if you didn't know how to sink, the premise of this ordeal was that it provoked direct intervention from God in determining the guilt or innocence of the accused.

01:39:54.620 And the result was therefore seen as a revelation of God's judgment.

01:39:57.820 And you better put something in your – make sure you're sinking.

01:40:00.740 You better eat a heavy lunch.

01:40:01.940 You know, something.

01:40:03.800 Well, I'm not a swim, so I'm sinking.

01:40:06.620 You better eat a heavy lunch.

01:40:08.360 Right.

01:40:08.980 Anything else we need to know about the trade, about the lunch trade, about the industry, anything – you said there was men infiltrating the business.

01:40:17.260 Is that a –

01:40:17.580 There's a couple men, yeah, that's working in the kitchens now.

01:40:21.720 And is that new?

01:40:22.680 Is that –

01:40:23.580 I think they've been there for a minute.

01:40:26.200 I've only worked with like one –

01:40:28.740 And are these bisexual men, or is it all types of men, you think?

01:40:32.940 All types.

01:40:33.740 Yep.

01:40:34.560 Yeah, all types.

01:40:36.120 Everybody loves lunch, baby.

01:40:37.720 Oh, they do.

01:40:39.340 Yeah, I love it.

01:40:40.040 They do.

01:40:40.480 I love it.

01:40:41.040 I don't care if I loved men or women.

01:40:42.600 I would still make lunch for myself and others.

01:40:44.460 Well, yeah, me too.

01:40:45.400 I don't care who it is.

01:40:47.000 Yeah.

01:40:48.000 Same here.

01:40:48.660 You gotta eat.

01:40:49.560 Everybody's gotta eat.

01:40:51.100 That's what I tell them.

01:40:52.260 You gotta eat.

01:40:53.140 You know, that's important.

01:40:55.560 That's how I feel.

01:40:56.920 I don't care who you look.

01:40:58.740 Yeah, I'm just trying to think of anything else we want to learn about the industry.

01:41:01.200 We've learned who – that the kids come in.

01:41:03.720 We've learned that sometimes you have to step over and give them a hug if they're having a tough time.

01:41:08.320 We learned sometimes they bring cats and snakes through just because that's what's going on.

01:41:14.880 The food plant.

01:41:16.260 What about – I know – didn't they have – Michelle Obama had a program a few years back.

01:41:20.020 Yeah, we got quite a few things dropped off and stuff, and she gave a lot of stuff out to parents.

01:41:26.040 It was called Get Right.

01:41:27.040 What was that program called?

01:41:29.180 It was –

01:41:30.220 The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act changed nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program by requiring that schools serve more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fat-free and or low-fat milk more frequently and less starchy vegetables or foods high in sodium and trans fat.

01:41:46.640 Did that take effect?

01:41:49.420 Did you actually see that happen in the school system?

01:41:52.240 Because a lot of things that politicians and –

01:41:55.420 Yes, they really did that, and they came out and gave boxes of the whole entire meals to parents and stuff and told them how to do it with the spices, everything.

01:42:09.000 Oh, wow.

01:42:09.920 And also they give them a bag of fruit each week to take home.

01:42:16.400 They have a lot of free fruit and vegetable program, and then once a month we have free produce and everything outside.

01:42:25.740 So parents, everybody comes and gets it.

01:42:29.200 Oh, wow.

01:42:29.900 So there's a lot of stuff from y'all's school that's available for the community?

01:42:32.780 A lot, yes.

01:42:33.240 That you guys don't use at school?

01:42:35.000 Yeah.

01:42:35.240 Nothing to do with you?

01:42:36.720 Right, exactly.

01:42:37.440 Wow.

01:42:38.020 Yeah, it's amazing.

01:42:39.480 Yeah, like I said, there's always trucks dropping off.

01:42:42.100 They put stuff in the kids' book bags for them to take home for having a meal for the weekend.

01:42:47.640 So, yeah.

01:42:48.880 Your mom ever come over to the school and get a meal from you?

01:42:54.100 Well, I had a stepmom.

01:42:56.360 Oh, you did?

01:42:57.020 She passed.

01:42:57.280 Oh, she passed away?

01:42:58.280 Yeah, but I didn't like her food anyway.

01:43:00.860 You didn't?

01:43:01.280 No.

01:43:03.160 Or her much, but it's cool.

01:43:04.580 We'll talk about that.

01:43:06.980 Hey, look, it's tough.

01:43:08.180 Stepmoms are hard to read.

01:43:09.340 It's tough.

01:43:09.480 I have my real mom, but she's never came to school to eat.

01:43:12.260 She hasn't?

01:43:12.940 No.

01:43:13.600 Oh.

01:43:14.720 She should come get a meal.

01:43:15.720 She's still alive?

01:43:16.740 Yeah.

01:43:17.180 Oh, yeah?

01:43:17.700 Mm-hmm.

01:43:18.140 And where does she live in Illinois?

01:43:19.680 No, wrong corner for me.

01:43:21.240 Oh, she does?

01:43:22.000 Yeah.

01:43:22.500 You guys just aren't super close?

01:43:24.540 We see each other.

01:43:25.600 She just doesn't come to the school?

01:43:26.920 Yeah.

01:43:27.360 Yeah.

01:43:27.740 Yeah.

01:43:28.620 I'm trying to think.

01:43:29.320 Don't they have parents' day or something at the school where parents come?

01:43:33.080 Parents, yeah.

01:43:33.620 They come in, they see and stuff, but my principal and stuff feeds them.

01:43:37.640 They don't eat our school's food.

01:43:40.380 She'll have other food brought in for them, and they'll eat.

01:43:43.560 Can a kid have an older brother or a family member come and have lunch with them at school

01:43:48.300 one day or no?

01:43:48.900 Oh, yeah.

01:43:49.760 Oh, yeah.

01:43:51.200 Sure.

01:43:51.640 So that happens a lot?

01:43:52.760 Oh, yeah.

01:43:53.380 Oh, that's cool.

01:43:54.200 Mm-hmm.

01:43:55.180 Yeah, that's fun.

01:43:56.080 We got a lot of, yeah, and you got a lot of siblings.

01:43:57.900 You'll have like five related, you know, in the-

01:44:00.580 In the school system.

01:44:01.400 In the school, yeah.

01:44:02.040 Yeah.

01:44:02.200 Yeah.

01:44:03.160 So there's nothing for that.

01:44:04.960 Do you guys ever do like pep rallies and stuff like that ever?

01:44:07.260 What's that energy like?

01:44:08.120 Yeah, they-

01:44:08.860 Well, they'll just start, yeah, because they can have high energy, you know, because we

01:44:14.300 get rowdy.

01:44:15.320 And then when I hear them, I get rowdy.

01:44:18.040 So then I go running through the thing, you know, and make them clap.

01:44:22.380 And then the teacher, like, there's Melissa again, you know, so most of them kind of know

01:44:26.640 that I'm going to do it.

01:44:27.800 Oh, yeah.

01:44:29.080 You know, or like when they have dads, they're like, here she comes, watch.

01:44:32.700 Because you get antsy, you know, I'm like, I'm hearing it.

01:44:35.140 Am I supposed to just stand here and work when I got to go over there, you know?

01:44:38.280 Yeah.

01:44:38.880 So.

01:44:39.360 Yeah.

01:44:40.580 Um, yeah, I'm trying to think, do you still feel like you're in school a little bit?

01:44:44.060 Is there, is it?

01:44:44.800 Yeah.

01:44:45.300 Yeah.

01:44:45.700 Uh, yeah.

01:44:46.260 I'm like 50.

01:44:47.000 I still feel like, like I've never got out of school.

01:44:49.320 Yeah.

01:44:50.020 Yeah.

01:44:50.660 That's pretty cool.

01:44:51.920 It is kind of.

01:44:52.860 Yeah.

01:44:53.260 It's like, and then it's funny because I talk to people and I'm like, yeah, I got to go to

01:44:56.940 school, but really I'm going to work.

01:44:58.980 But they probably are thinking, man, she's the longest in school.

01:45:01.360 Yeah.

01:45:01.580 I never seen somebody in school so long.

01:45:05.600 Because I never say work.

01:45:06.780 I just say I'm going to school.

01:45:07.880 You're like, God, you think that she graduated.

01:45:09.320 You know?

01:45:10.040 You know?

01:45:10.460 They're probably thinking, dang, she's still in school.

01:45:13.060 Do you think some kids probably mostly eat at school and don't eat at home in your area?

01:45:16.740 Yes.

01:45:17.160 Really?

01:45:17.580 A lot of them.

01:45:18.360 Yeah.

01:45:18.740 We have children you wouldn't know from, that are homeless and from everywhere and they go

01:45:24.320 to school.

01:45:24.840 No way.

01:45:25.620 Oh yeah.

01:45:26.240 They're, yeah.

01:45:26.760 Is there homeless in your area?

01:45:28.300 Yes.

01:45:28.960 Oh wow.

01:45:29.620 A lot.

01:45:31.260 Wow.

01:45:32.120 Mm-hmm.

01:45:33.200 That's crazy, huh?

01:45:34.680 Yeah, definitely.

01:45:36.140 Yeah.

01:45:36.380 It's got different over the neighborhood too, you know?

01:45:38.680 Yeah.

01:45:38.960 Lower and lower, yeah.

01:45:40.460 Yeah, I think you're seeing a lot of homeless.

01:45:41.960 With homelessness on the rise, the Supreme Court weighs ban on sleeping outdoors.

01:45:45.700 Oh yeah.

01:45:46.800 What is that going to do?

01:45:49.320 I love how they rephrase it to being sleeping outdoors.

01:45:53.380 Pull this up a little bit more.

01:45:54.600 The Supreme Court wrestled with major questions about the growing issue of homelessness on Monday

01:45:59.780 as it considered whether cities can punish people for sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking.

01:46:06.140 It's the most significant case before the high court in decades on the issue and comes as record numbers of people are without a permanent place to live in the United States.

01:46:15.820 What?

01:46:17.220 So, the case started home.

01:46:20.040 The case started in the rural Oregon town of Grants Pass, which began fining people $295.

01:46:25.220 Oh, no, they can't even pay for it.

01:46:26.500 They're homeless.

01:46:27.160 They don't even have nowhere to go.

01:46:28.300 For sleeping outside as the cost of housing escalated and tents sprung up in the city's public parks.

01:46:34.280 That's unbelievable.

01:46:35.020 Because, yeah, you're like, where are people supposed to go?

01:46:37.920 Well, they got a lot of, they make a lot of spots over there, like tent city and stuff.

01:46:41.860 Yeah.

01:46:42.240 So, there's places that you see a lot of homeless.

01:46:45.060 But I wonder if they would also have to, is that considered sleeping outside?

01:46:48.180 I don't know.

01:46:48.820 I couldn't see how, how are you going to give them a fine?

01:46:51.660 If you have a tent, I feel like you're, because if people don't have a place to go and they make a tent.

01:46:56.760 Right.

01:46:57.260 Then they're trying, they're.

01:46:58.960 Trying to make a home.

01:46:59.720 Yeah.

01:47:00.000 I mean, right?

01:47:01.920 Somebody's making a house, right?

01:47:03.200 Well, yeah.

01:47:03.600 And some rent is so expensive.

01:47:04.820 Like, what do you expect someone to do?

01:47:06.420 Oh, yeah.

01:47:07.060 You know?

01:47:08.560 Especially if people get caught up on, you know, people get caught up in drugs pretty easily.

01:47:12.680 Well, there's a lot of that going now, yeah.

01:47:14.680 Well, especially when we advertise drugs on television in this country, like it's, like it's a new toy.

01:47:21.640 Right, right, right.

01:47:22.120 You know, every single one.

01:47:23.160 So, you can't be shocked when people end up on drugs.

01:47:26.180 Right.

01:47:26.660 And then, now they're stuck outside.

01:47:29.300 And, yeah, we don't have a place for them.

01:47:31.720 Gosh, that's unbelievable.

01:47:33.040 Yeah, imagine getting a ticket.

01:47:35.240 Yeah, I'd be laughing at them.

01:47:37.620 Like, what do you want me to do with this?

01:47:38.820 I use it for wipe, you know, because I don't even have a home.

01:47:43.460 I don't even have a job.

01:47:45.300 Where are you going to get $2.95 for me?

01:47:47.420 I'd be like, hey, give me a whole roll of tickets.

01:47:50.200 Right, could you give me some more tickets, right?

01:47:52.480 Hey, give me the soft ones, too.

01:47:53.880 I mean, what are they going to do with, put me in jail for a minute, then I have a home and I can go to the bathroom and get a meal.

01:47:58.320 I mean, if that's going to be...

01:48:00.960 Gosh.

01:48:02.280 Right?

01:48:02.780 Yeah.

01:48:03.100 How rude.

01:48:04.420 Unbelievable.

01:48:05.080 Or they'll probably make them start, they'll make schools start feeding the people, maybe.

01:48:08.480 Did you ever try like a homeless feeding program at your school?

01:48:12.280 Yes.

01:48:12.600 Really?

01:48:13.240 Yes.

01:48:13.900 And as a matter of fact, in 2020, when all of them was at home, I was out there with N95 masks.

01:48:20.880 And we made, my custodian made me this drive-through door because it was cool stuff.

01:48:24.380 Your custodian made it for you?

01:48:25.500 Yeah.

01:48:25.900 It was really cool when I came in.

01:48:27.040 Yeah.

01:48:27.520 And so I could just, it was like, shh, shh.

01:48:29.960 But anybody come at the door and we would give them food.

01:48:33.360 So I gave a lot of food away around those couple months.

01:48:36.200 Yeah.

01:48:36.720 Students and homeless people?

01:48:38.160 Students, homeless people.

01:48:39.340 Wow.

01:48:39.780 Yeah.

01:48:40.680 Anybody.

01:48:41.120 Anybody and everybody.

01:48:42.060 Dang.

01:48:42.940 Yeah.

01:48:43.760 You saw some crazy stuff.

01:48:45.200 Did you?

01:48:45.740 Oh, I mean, you know.

01:48:47.660 But hey, at least it was free food.

01:48:49.560 There wasn't, you should, you wasn't hungry because there was lots of places to get free food from.

01:48:53.700 Yeah.

01:48:53.900 People got to eat.

01:48:54.720 Yeah.

01:48:55.620 You know.

01:48:56.960 I feel like if I put my glasses on, we look a little bit the same.

01:48:59.380 You're a lot cuter though.

01:49:03.480 A little bit.

01:49:04.120 I'm half Polish.

01:49:04.740 Are you?

01:49:05.280 Yeah.

01:49:05.720 Yeah?

01:49:06.180 Mm-hmm.

01:49:06.940 Yeah.

01:49:07.460 Holub.

01:49:07.980 Yeah.

01:49:08.500 Holub.

01:49:09.440 Holub.

01:49:10.000 Holub.

01:49:10.520 Holub.

01:49:10.920 We them boys.

01:49:12.400 I know, right?

01:49:14.180 What are some things you've ever heard kids say that have been funny?

01:49:19.020 Anything funny that comes out of your head over the years that are anything interesting

01:49:21.920 that are like, because you're right there on the eavesdropping.

01:49:24.800 You're like.

01:49:25.000 I know.

01:49:25.380 It's just like, it's so hard to think of things at the time.

01:49:28.960 I mean, I eavesdrop all the time.

01:49:30.860 Don't get me wrong.

01:49:31.640 Amen.

01:49:31.980 Because I hear stuff I'm not supposed to hear.

01:49:34.240 I just don't.

01:49:34.740 I just try not to even, you know.

01:49:37.020 Yeah.

01:49:37.260 I'm thinking they did what?

01:49:38.640 And they're only what?

01:49:39.940 So.

01:49:40.620 Oh, kids making out or whatever.

01:49:42.440 Oh, and different things that they talk through line.

01:49:43.540 Being too fast, yeah.

01:49:44.560 And I'm like, oh man, I don't even want to hear all that now.

01:49:47.820 They're fast.

01:49:48.600 So I try to act like I'm not listening.

01:49:50.620 Mm-hmm.

01:49:51.120 But like, some will talk sometimes like a long time ago, maybe about their parents or

01:49:57.760 you get a little bit more scoop than you should know.

01:50:00.340 Things going on.

01:50:01.020 And things going on.

01:50:02.280 Yeah.

01:50:02.680 You probably shouldn't know.

01:50:04.200 Yeah.

01:50:04.700 People smoking this or that.

01:50:06.280 Yeah.

01:50:06.740 Yeah.

01:50:07.680 Well, their clothes smell like when they go, man, that's all you got to do.

01:50:10.700 They did.

01:50:15.200 Anything on those sunken gays, man?

01:50:17.280 Bring it.

01:50:17.640 It's like a gays.

01:50:18.420 You got an image on it at least?

01:50:19.800 Absolutely nothing.

01:50:21.400 Just show me the first image that comes up if you do it sunken gays or witchcraft.

01:50:29.060 There we go.

01:50:29.960 There we go.

01:50:30.640 Oh my gosh.

01:50:31.480 Hey, look.

01:50:32.980 Oh boy.

01:50:33.500 And just go to Google too and let me see what they have for it if you'd put it in there.

01:50:37.880 Okay.

01:50:38.400 Sinking gay men and put backslash witchcraft.

01:50:46.120 I'm serious, man.

01:50:47.000 This was a big thing while I was growing up.

01:50:49.300 And go to images.

01:50:50.360 See what we get.

01:50:51.600 Right there.

01:50:52.740 What?

01:50:54.180 Oh.

01:50:54.640 Bring that picture up.

01:50:57.120 Oh, so we get a picture of the Navy.

01:50:58.800 Yeah.

01:50:58.940 See, this is, well, I don't think that's what.

01:51:01.680 Right?

01:51:02.520 I don't think that's what we're talking about.

01:51:04.760 Melissa Ancel, I want to thank you so much for your service.

01:51:07.160 Oh, thank you so much.

01:51:08.160 Literally.

01:51:08.180 Oh, thank you so much.

01:51:08.860 For being a smile that people can see when they cross through the middle of their day.

01:51:12.740 You know, you're kind of like the meridian in the ocean, you know, where like the time

01:51:16.620 zone kind of changes when you cross it.

01:51:18.600 And I think that that's special.

01:51:19.900 I know that that's important for a lot of kids.

01:51:22.860 Just to have somebody in the middle of the day to offer them a big smile, you know, that

01:51:26.100 goes a long way, I think, just in the universe.

01:51:29.120 And yeah, thank you for coming and spending time with us and helping us reminisce a little

01:51:32.340 bit.

01:51:32.600 Thank you.

01:51:32.900 About what it was like to go to lunch and have a lovely lady stand there and help us

01:51:38.740 out.

01:51:38.980 Help us get through it.

01:51:40.180 Thank you.

01:51:40.720 Yeah.

01:51:41.460 And thank you so much for coming.

01:51:43.280 Thank you for having me.

01:51:44.420 Now I'm just floating on the breeze and I feel I'm falling like these leaves.

01:51:50.020 I must be cornerstone.

01:51:55.360 Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind I found.

01:52:00.640 And I can feel it in my bones, but it's going to tell you.

This Past Weekend with Theo Von - May 30, 2024

E507 School Lunch Lady

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