School Lunch Lady | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #507

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today's guest is that midday meal. Maiden she's that belly fing bad girl. between breakfast and dinner a lunch. lady that's right out of Cleveland Ohio. she's been in the game more than 31. years we're going to learn about all of. it the lunch the children the. lifestyle we want to thank all of the. Lunch Ladies uh that reached out and who. we spoke with and we are so so grateful.

to have one in studio today lunch lady. Melissa. [Music]. anel I'll sit and tell you my. stories. shine on. me and I will find a song. [Applause].

lunch lady Melissa how are you I'm doing. great yeah yeah you feel good oh yeah I. flew for the first time today so did you. really yes I've never flown in my life. and I said i' never get on a plane so. thank you and you changed it all up huh. I changed it all up the last couple days. yeah I've been feeling I'm going to pee. lot but that's all really yeah cuz I'm. nerves oh nerves you think yeah just. nerves yeah I didn't know if you meant. like cuz the altitude or something oh no.

no just cuz I was nervous cuz I was. doing something so oh yeah wow really so. it's been a while oh a while I've never. flew what's the highest you've ever been. up then on a building or something on a. slide uh yeah maybe a slide or you know. roller coaster or. something gosh I know right and was it. nerve-wracking like oh you know it. wasn't as bad I guess as what I thought. but uh yeah you know I had to take a. pill just Cal myself down.

oh yeah I popped a couple of pills just. to get through a tough episode of cops. before well you know I mean this is. true you know yeah so but thank you for. coming in no thank you so much this was. awesome um thank you for having me yeah. you're very welcome and yeah we just you. know everybody has had lunch ladies in. their lives oh yeah you know I mean a. lot of children really it goes from like. breastfed to bottle. fed to being fed by a woman.

kind of vaguely covered in plastic you. know and so it's kind of like you know. it's the it's almost mom's third breast. in a way it's like you're that next. liaison to sustenance for a child you. know true um how did you get into the. game how did you get into it well you. know I mean I kind of fell into it you. know I graduated got pregnant needed a. job and there I. was and then it worked out really good.

yeah okay so let's just go back so you. graduated from what I graduated from. high school okay you graduated from high. school and where are you what part of. the nation are you in oh I I'm in from. Cleveland Ohio oh okay so you're from. Ohio and you graduate from high school. and then you get Knocked Up by a man. sure you know and uh then I didn't. really want the man that much so then I. moved out oh you moved out so you. separated but how did that so how do you. go from there how did somebody go from. getting knocked up by guy I kind of.

wanted to uh to you know feeding. children I guess actually EAS well you. know I fell into the job but when I. started to do it I was like I really. like it and I had and my son then he. started going to school there you know. oh okay so he got to stay when I was off. he was off so it was so much easier to. you know follow with him you know oh. that's kind of perfect huh oh it was. perfect oh yeah that was awesome so we. would have the Summers off if I wanted. to or you know whenever holidays I.

didn't have to look for a babysitter you. know oh that's pretty magical huh yeah. and how did you actually who got you the. job there um oh I I just went down I. went down to the Board of Education. looked around got some jobs and then I. just slowly like moved up because I've. been there so long you know oh they move. you so there's different is there. different yeah there's kind of like. different positions like you'd start out. like the the really kind of the lunch L. then you like move up to the general. prep then the cook than the manager.

things like that you know okay um okay. so you're in Cleveland you have a child. your child now you start lunch lady and. at the school uh where your child is and. so take me through like a typical shift. of a lunch lady like they get there do. you walk to school do you do you guys. carpol how does it work well I mean I. didn't have a car for a minute so when I. don't have a car I would walk or. sometimes somebody pick me up but I mean. I have a car now and we're actually in. the we're transitioning they tear they.

tore my school down so I'm over at a. swing site so it's a little bit further. not too much further and I drive there. and back but once I get the other one. really I could kind of walk down there. if I had to oh nice so it's been perfect. since I also have anxiety I don't drive. as much driving's hard huh I don't like. the other people. driving if they could just stay away. from me when I'm on the road I'd be cool. yeah oh yeah well yeah I mean here's my.

thing I've met a lot of people right. something's wrong with. them so all driving is is those people. are in cars now right right so it's not. like they've changed suddenly because. they're in a vehicle something still. wrong with them I said just because I'm. nervous and don't drive a lot like that. you know still them guys you know yeah. and I live in the lower Cleveland so let. me just say some of the drivers aren't. even supposed to be in those cars oh. yeah yeah cuz they stld. them yeah I guess well about 15 years.

ago I did wake up one morning and my car. got stolen out of my driveway and I was. like Dude where's my car and it really. wasn't there but they never found it so. they must yeah they probably took parts. off it and had a good time with it but. yeah I was violated. well yeah what kind of car was it it was. old cutless oh yeah yeah they wanted it. bad in the you know how those doors slam. good and stuff yeah and look let's say. there's definitely Brothers Love A. cutless I go was loving it yeah yes.

people's love a cutless my dad had a. Delta 88 and he had a um and he also had. a cutless bring that up bring up a. cutless let's see the one that got. stolen here from lunch lady Melissa do. you know what year uh model it was. Melissa oh goodness I don't really. remember that much but just ballpark at. like 1940 1990 no like. 1990 talk kind of look like that white. one over there.

yeah yeah kind of like but the the doors. just shot good and everything but I. didn't protect it should have put the. club or something on the wheel you know. I got the club on it right now on my a. beater in the driveway right now do you. heck yeah yeah my mom puts it on all the. time oh I'm I'm yeah I put it on I don't. care CU now that they took it away me. I'm like uh this is. it now if they can get past all those. they can have. ity you've earned it huh yeah you earned. to take it.

go okay so take me through a typical. shift at work you show up at what time. do you get over there well I get there. at 7:30 okay and you know I we turn on. all the warmers oven all that stuff you. know start putting everything out uh. make hot breakfast um yeah had a. breakfast yeah we do a hot breakfast and. we also do a breakfast cart so they. could choose so like you know if I have. um a pancake with a sausage in it oh. yeah they could choose a hot you know. they're juice and milk or they can go.

over to the cart and I have like muffins. blueberry muffins lemon bread cereal. maybe Apple oh all the time fruits and. stuff yeah yeah this new guy stepping it. up with the the fruit now oh yeah they. oh yeah we got a new man that in charge. of food service and yeah the some of the. kids didn't even know what a kiwi and. stuff was but they do now oh wow yeah it. was interesting the other day I would. cut them all up and I'm like oh I ain't. got to worry about it you know and then. I come over and look and the kid's like. Miss Melissa I ate the whole kiwi and.

I'm like what why'd you eat that fuzz. and I was like oh I didn't know you guys. didn't know that so yeah it's it's crazy. yeah I yeah the first time you get that. kiwi you don't know how much to have or. how much not to have you know well I. know I wouldn't eat that outside. though I don't know that I think it. depends on what you're into you know. well yeah that's true I mean it's a. fuzzy. feeling well so people like a little bit.

of you know yeah they like a different. environment I get it yeah um okay so you. get in there you got the warmers on do. you have a team do you guys have a team. meeting or something like well no I'm. I'm like U um I'm the manager or. whatever me and uh Shayla Cruz it's my. lady that cooks and stuff she we come in. together and we do most of the work and. that's breakfast work breakfast lunch. everything so breakfast comes some of. the kids come how much percent of the. children come to get breakfast you think. oh over like 460 I I'd say we have 600.

we feed a day so we could do about 460. breakfast wow so a lot of them eat yeah. a lot of them eat yeah yeah we would get. to school for breakfast if we got there. in enough time sometimes our bus if it. were like well you know what now though. we're no we we have to stay open for if. their buses are late yeah all that stuff. so yeah we don't close up we pretty much. kids come in sometimes at like 1 in the. afternoon Miss Melissa can I get. breakfast I mean they're eating in 2. minutes but sure here's your breakfast. and your lunch.

yeah they don't even care I know they. don't care as long as they eat yeah. that's how they are um okay so you guys. got the breakfast done you shut it down. how do you start to transition to lunch. is there an opportunity if people want. to smoke between lunch and breakfast. like what is that like you guys get a. little break or anything or do a video. game on your phone or something well I. mean we're really busy so it all depends. on what we're making that day because if. it's something like hard like. for breakfast we have to do all that if.

it's just like a pancake we just heat it. up or something that's real easy you. know what I mean so you got more time. but if it's something that I'm making. sausage egg cheese I have to put it all. on one rap it I no I mean we're swinging. right in you know as the kids are coming. through we're still hey you know still. working so breakfast lunch whatever. that's what I said and and like when I. do the turnover it's people are like wow. I'm like you move the color we're. turning over breakfast is over.

so really is there a hard line where. it's just like breakfast is done well I. say that but I'm lying because whenever. they come in it I'll still filling. breakfast even if they came in later so. yeah I still you you kind of draw a line. in the there should be a line yeah to at. least a limit because I'm about to serve. lunch pretty soon I'll tell them you. know come on now yeah but like I said. we're here to feed him so and is there. like a little bit of a game playing. before lunch how do you know what lunch. y going to serve does it come down like. from like a I have a like on a does it.

and it comes like this is what we're. serving today I have a menu and then I. order from the menu for the. week okay so what do you mean like give. a menu well they say on the menu okay. say it's a chicken bowl M so I know I'm. going to order that so for five days I. order and I'll order everything for that. and everything for the solids we're. going to make for that same day oh so. all the items that go into those things. you saying cuz we have a couple. different things you choose from oh so. and just make sure you have enough.

lunches cuz man when you run out boy. those kids are ready to get you and. don't run on Pizza day oh man I was. messing around once and I you know I was. talking to the kids too much and I. started burning I'm like I'm sorry. I'm so they didn't like that very well. but yeah if you run out on Pizza day I. remember oh man well we went through a. couple different types of pizza I. remember I. remember there was this. round can you bring up the different.

School pizzas that were served there was. a round Pizza that had a great crust on. it I remember and it was really great. and people would like see each other and. be like hey that crust is great huh and. people be like yeah and then then we got. to this other square pizza and I was. like this ain't even barely Pizza dude. and that one people didn't really like. it as much and the cheese I think tasted. different to me but um yeah let's look. at a couple of these that's one right.

there I've definitely had that one the. one you have the cursor on down right. there well we have like the one you got. the curs and that's like our breakfast. pizza oh that's we serve that now for. breakfast breakfast pizza some breakfast. pizza oh yeah breakfast pizza was good. um we used to have a box Pizza years and. years ago and I'm talking like 30 years. ago the kids used to really like but um. now we're serving a stuffed crust pizza. so the kids are pretty interested yeah. like I said Pizza day I hear a lot of. compliment. I look good on pizza day really yeah so.

there'll be a lot of flirting and stuff. on Pizza day oh Pizza day everybody. wants a piece of pizza yeah yeah. everybody want a pizza that baby um so. Pizza is the big thing right that's the. thing everybody loves the most that's. what they love well yeah there's a. couple uh different things but following. the menu um yeah so following the menu. you guys you have your week a menu it's. already set up in advance so before the. previous week ends you got the whole. week lined up the next week right cuz I. right a week ahead okay so I kind of.

have it lined up but things can happen. so it's subject to change really oh yeah. especially in 2020 you know when all. that shortage I mean whatever they gave. me was what they were because you know. they it was constant nope we don't have. that no more nope this we're shorts of. this nope we don't I'm like oh my gosh. what do we feed these I'm about to go to. the grocery store I need a food Sam. card yeah you got to do something you. know I was like man these kids need eat. yeah. yeah gets crazy sometimes but you're.

getting the lunches out to them you got. a plan um does the government tell you. what the children have to eat or you can. make it whatever no the government kind. of tells you what the kids need to have. like how many servings of leg you know. what I mean there have to be certain. things legumes or whatever yeah like you. know you have to have beans on there C. certain amount of times you know yeah so. yeah they kind of tell you but we flip. it around on different things you know.

what I mean if I'm short of that they're. getting that I mean so it is what it is. as long as they eat I'm happy that's. yeah that's my attitude too I can't. believe children have a choice where. you're at in some of their meals oh well. this is start of this year um like I. said guy we make a chicken salad chef. salad and they love the PB&J still you. may give them a you know just a cold. lunch and then whatever we're making for. hot so they pick between whichever one. they want and are there days where. there's a real specialty item what's one.

of the spe like is there a time of year. where something like um maybe some um. like uh bison meat or something or. something unique you know something rare. will come across that you guys give to. the kids or like um I guess like is. there a time of year when y'all get the. kids get something really rare kind of. no um the the thing is like there's the. kids are so like picky and there's so. many that can't have this that they. don't really go into anything odd with.

that you know what I mean right so no. you kind of stick to the guns kind of. yes just right to it yeah there's like. not a lot of pork on the menu because. kids don't there's so much how do you. say that um religions and different. things that they don't they don't eat. this they don't eat that so you have to. watch okay and you know we're a. Bilingual School too we have like so. many different backgrounds oh damn so. yeah some kids don't even speak English.

so really yeah all my ladies that work. with me are Spanish so oh yeah yeah it's. cool though I start you know acting like. I'm high blowing you know I'm like oh I. got this you know and I'm like so I. learned a couple little words and then I. know what they want I'm like oh I got it. don't worry she wants a. latchet mil. HC oh yeah it does feel good whenever. somebody's speaking Spanish and you and. you get it yeah you get it yeah oh yeah. that's a great feeling dudee it's really.

cool yeah so I'm trying to teach them. some English yeah you know cuz I'm like. you just brought me that and I didn't. ask for that I asked for ketchup would. you bring me a spoon. for so we all just crack yeah a lot of. people are just don't know the. difference between um yeah condiments. silverware people don't a lot of people. get scared they had an emu the other day. that died it had a bir it had ate a. woman's car keys somewhere oh my God. yeah so people will eat anything I feel.

um can you bring that up you see let me. know if you can find that um is there a. lot of lesbianism like in the in the. cafeteria culture I feel like we had a. lot of uh I'm sorry that was a good one. is that crazy we had a lot of uh female. in not in breeding or whatever but like. in breeding I guess basically CU it's. like let's just say there's a little bit. of everything okay okay we're going to. say there's a little of everything we. had a lot of uh women love or whatever. they called it back in the day in um in.

the cafeteria you would see that a lot. of people some of them their husband had. been mean to them and then they would. fall in love after. that so it's like male induced lesbian. right right I get it yeah he did me. wrong I'm never being with a man again. yeah yeah I'm not but I'll be with this. gal you know that looks like and make. her I'll be with this gal and make her. wear his old clothes we right weird we.

all got a couple little you know weird. things you. know um a beloved ostrich at the Topeka. Zoo and Conservation Center in Kansas. has died after swallowing a staff. member's Keys God what that's crazy oh. and you know they were probably looking. for the keys for a while too and like. where the keys and the be like you poor. ostrich oh he ate my keys he's dead the. ostrich is just over there like. [Laughter]. you.

know they're like where's I know right. where's those keys at I don't know all. there was just an ostr standing by me. nobody else was B me and the off is just. the offic just leaning on a on like a on. a on a on a cage door he's. like different times right you got that. right the zoo announced in a social. media post Friday that the 5-year-old. OST named Karen a had reached Beyond her. ex exibits fence and grabbed and.

swallowed the employees Keys staff. consulted with experts around the US to. undergo Surgical and non-surgical. efforts to minimize the impact of the. key of the keys unfortun unfortunately. these efforts could pass the key then. successful yeah I guess you couldn't and. I guess if if you like to HCK an ostrich. it was just you can't get enough power. in there right to really get him to. blast out God that's pretty sad I'm. sorry. hey serve it.

up you got that right cuz I sure serve. hey look if the kids will eat it serve. it up if you'd have told me when I was a. child that a cut of ostrich had come. through I think there's some kids would. have gone in and tried it but but I. guess overall children don't like trying. a lot of new stuff huh now no they're so. picky I mean back in the day I think. they ate more now it's like I you know. can where's my hand I'm like I didn't. have that today you know yeah kids are. picky and most ofly I remember they we.

we would always sometimes get a McNugget. which was pretty good they like the. Nuggets yeah they still like them huh oh. they love the chicken oh yeah chicken. nug go and what else would we get that. was really good the pizza I enjoyed I. really did like the pizza till they. switched it to that square pizza with no. real crust on it and it just made me. just so angry at. everybody um what else that straw in the. milk bag they used to have do they still. have that it was like a bag of milk no. they don't they don't do the bags no. more no actually we don't even do straws.

no more really yeah he took away the. straws and stuff for I guess we're going. to you know save how do you get the milk. out of it into your body well I mean you. know what I thought there'd be more. problems but they take that Carton and. just open it up and drink it oh and so I. haven't had too much of a problem but. when it first started I kind of did. think wow there's going to be a lot of. people to my amazement no they just. figured like they just figured it out. for 30 years one years they've been. popping thatw in there you know. they cloggs my sink you know we we.

washing the tables put it down the sink. and all those straws go in there like. what what's in there we pop it out and. all these straws. go like oh H it say yellow straws yeah. okay so this uh so you guys got the food. out to the children the children start. to come in through the line right now do. you guys we had um bdld would come in. first I if they still have it Behavior. disabled learning disabled would come in. first or last for lunch you guys still. do that or everybody's just mixed in.

everybody's mixed okay comes in so uh so. you get the children start coming in and. what are you where are you at are you. stationed at a certain point like what. kind of offense are y'all running well I. mean we could uh I should be down there. like Mark and stuff but I'm the fastest. one with serving and stuff so most of. the time I'm the server you're on the. line yeah I like to be on the line. because I know how fast I could go um. even if I drop stuff you know I just. keep on going oh yeah no just keep on. going just like your lunch lady.

Annie yeah you know about her yeah I I. watched you and then I was laughing. because I had carbal toner surgery last. year and I was doing the same thing and. we laughed we watched that because I. kept throwing stuff and I'm like keep. going my hand my finger be getting all. stuck look at all crazy and the kids are. like what are you doing I'm like this. she would do this in her sleep. just in her sleep she would be doing. this I bet she uh you know what actually. happened to her she um well she was we. had a couple of good lunch ladies we had. this one lady we had named Sarge.

actually and she was I think a um she. loved ladies I'll say that and she um. she had all these pictures of her dogs. on her all the time and she'd always be. like oh I got so many dogs and she would. just have all these little buttons and. pictures of all these dogs and and then. she'd have a bucket she'd keep all the. some of the extra stuff for her dogs and. you know she's like I'm going to feed my. puppies today.

okay be like all right how are you D. fine she'd have so many sometimes she'd. have like missing long as you feed me. you can you can feed whatever you want. Lady long as you long as you feed the. fourth grade you can feed whatever you. want but she would sometimes have like a. wanted poster like a missing she would. sometimes have like a missing poster on. her for a dog that had gotten lost or. whatever and she's like have y'all seen. bidy or whatever she would ask us and. then who else did we have we had oh we. had had Patty this lady one time and she.

would open up the biggest cans of peas. man I mean cans you couldn't even knew. that they had a can that big oh I didn't. see when I first started open those big. cans too I was like waa look at all. those peas yeah wow and. one yeah I was. amazed and one of the janitors would. always come through and be like nice. cans Patty right and he was just a. pervert but still oh we all like to joke. around every once in a while and you. know it is what it is it is what it is. and she was pretty good we had another.

oh yeah we had this other lady U Miss. mon creef she uh she'd always be like. make sure to get your spagetti that's. what she called you. spagetti get your. spagetti so she would yell at us that's. funny she' be like get your spagetti and. instead of saying cake she would say. like this is crazy but she would kind of. say like C like CAC so she' be like and.

get you a cut of coconut CAC over there. see I think we all have to be a little. nut you know to be over there so long. around everybody you know most think I. am a little off but it's okay cuz I've. accepted that long time ago get your. spagetti get your coconut c yeah she was. bananas dude but she was sweet and then. we had Annie and Annie Miss Annie lived. across the street from us and she um was. always like the carrot Cop she' come.

over and like be. like eat your carrots you know and then. she got. [Music]. um murdered actually oh gosh yeah by her. son but um was a great neighbor before. that great yeah great lady and she had. been resuscitated a few times they kept. her on staff she was there wasn't a lot. left of her right you know by the by the. last you know couple months she some. people come crawling out after a while.

yeah some people just keep on. serving as long as this part of them. works it's like the my ladies has. laughed cuz like I said last year we. forgot the surgery I was I was like. constantly and I'm like and oh don't. worry I mean by the time they have clean. up cuz I threw chicken balls across the. room everybody was laugh and I'm like. hey you know what my hands are messed up. it's okay cuz and as you go faster you.

don't realize yeah sometimes you're just. like boom boom boom things are just. starting to move yeah yeah almost think. you're uh one of those Blackjack dealers. yeah I do I feel like it I'm like what. do you want what do you want kid yeah. what he wants a bun no no bun for. him. oh yeah um it's time for fighting and if. you love firing on Sports then prize. pick is the best daily fantasy sports. app for you I'll be using it Dustin. porier only needs to land one punch on.

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who you are I'm going to say it like. that like you know a lot of how do I say. it I think the younger gen New. Generation stuff they're a little bit. more slow and late you know it it's kind. of like but I get them pumped we're like. we're like let's go you're like hot. diggity dog and and and we got little. ones that come through the line and I go. what do you say and she's like if you. touch it you take it I'm like you got it. girl so so no we kind of boost him and. get them laughing I like to wear like. I play around with them like put. different wigs on oh yeah uh you know I.

like to switch it up and I don't wear a. lot of makeup most the time so I put. makeup on and all of them be like whoa. you know just just make it different. yeah I mean we like to try to do. something different just so the kids are. like wow you know it's a lot of fun to. play with them especially the little. ones cuz they're fun they are like what. age are still kids really enjoyable at. um I'm going to I'm going to say the. little ones up to I don't know about. about 10 before they start getting a. little mouthy and then they want to do.

their own thing then there are some of. them are like too cool for me they've. been in school for like ever and now. they're too cool for me they hugg me. every day when they were. little yeah and now they're like I'm m m. you know like okay but I live in the. neighborhood so I see them all oh so you. see a lot of them I see a lot of them. yeah and do a lot of the children when. they come through so they're pretty. excited and then you you only have one. person on y'all's line or how many. people's on y'all's line well I do it. either by myself or somebody will help. me some times if it's something really a. big meal and because most of the kids.

they some of the items they pick off the. line themselves they don't have to. actually be handed the fruit the. vegetable stuff we do on the other side. and they can pick all that up their. theirself I do like the main hot food. okay for them you know and and so those. are it like what spagetti what else um. we have pasta meatballs we have a a. chicken ball where they have the mashed. potatoes the chicken corn okay like a. chicken pop pie kind of yeah we started. we have a like a Polish Girl now it's.

like a a a turkey sausage kind of thing. and you put the sweet potato fries and. some SLO and some barbecue sauce on that. sucker it's good I like it that day that. sounds great so I'm saying I I mean I. I've been eating the food all these. years but I think they're getting better. yeah they're getting a lot better cuz. when I first started we we just heated. up microwave dinners I'll tell you. really oh yeah we heated them up in the. thing you couldn't um cook food that was. open so it looked like you cook like.

five fries fries are all stuck in the. bottom and I mean the quality like I. said and then you make a hamburger with. a bun already on it and heat it up in. plastic what is it you know yeah so now. we're doing like we'll do the burger and. we cook it and really cook it and the. fries go in the oven and they get crispy. you know oh that's nice so yeah I like I. said I've seen a big. change really and how long has that. change period been over you think well. it's been about I'm going to say about.

eight years of them slowly changing it. but this year has been the top because. like the kids get uh cantaloupe. watermelon whatever that I cut it up and. like going to or oh man the big kids I. have to slow them down I'm like man. that's too many portions cuz I mean. they'll take the whole thing you know. but yeah they probably didn't get all. that good food and now we get tangerines. and the oranges was is really cool cuz. you could those Little Cuties you could.

peel those in a second so I don't even. have to cut up those. oranges those Cuties it's almost like. having a little date almost oh man they. are but I have to stop the kids like. them so much they're in their pockets. they got to remember how many cuties you. got yeah they don't care um okay so you. got the line y'all got it going pretty. good what types of Ages are coming. through your line or have come through. your line over the years cuz how many. how many years have you been in the game. Bas 31 years finished my 31 yeah wow.

you're like Glover tashera. he's he's a famous UFC fighter you were. like yeah he's beloved and been in it. for a while um that's him right there. but he is a very sweet man who has stood. the test of time in his industry a okay. so what kind of kids are coming through. the lawn there you know and and what's. some of the interaction like with them. well you like the preschool and it's. like your baby they come first yes okay.

so the littlest kids come the littlest. kids come first oh wow yeah we get we. get the little ones and then we move on. up and at the last period is 6 7th eth. those are the big ones yeah so we start. out with these babies you know and you. know they're all cute little babies then. we go to these big huge kids which I. don't know what they're feeding them. anymore because you know they're they're. getting big yeah I got some big boys. Miss Melissa hook me up and I'm like. okay you know yeah but yeah. start out but the little ones they they.

come anywhere from four years old and I. think to about 14 okay unless they. unless they you know failed a bunch of. times and then they might be a little oh. yeah I mean you know. you see that must how many times he been. here yeah yeah he finally comes from one. you just hand him a um a a uh what's it. thing you fill out to work uh when you. want to work somewhere yeah you just. hand him a work application yeah right. right you might as well you could be you. know 18 in a minute. that happens a lot um so what yeah what.

are some of the kid kiddos that have. come through some of the little bucker. rties that have come through there like. any unique like anybody bringing. anything with like any stories they. bring with them or what's going on with. the kiddos well I mean I there's so many. kids I see them everywhere now like the. lady that's at the pharmacy she's a. pharmacist she was one of my kids I go. to. restaurants um we go on a a canoe ride. and I started laughing I wasn't nowhere. near Cleveland and they're like Miss. Melissa and we everywhere I go I run.

into S I mean that's a lot of years and. they're grown wow so they'll look at me. and I'm like they giving them money and. they're like are you missm I'm like yeah. they're like I I was like you were one. of my kids oh that's cool but it's cool. yeah yeah yeah there's a like there's a. connection well especially cuz you're. feeding the children you know there's. there's always a connection somebody I'm. nice to the kids too yeah and I'm funny. and you know they like being around you. they like seeing you oh yeah oh yeah um.

and what do some of the kids ever bring. anything with them do they ever like or. they like what do well we had some come. through the line and one had a snake in. his book bag really and little girl. brought her cat in a book bag yeah they. you never know what they're going to. bring really they brought a cat but we. have security that checks their bag so I. bet they've seen more something yeah. like is that cat meowing I mean that. book bag meowing over there is that the. new style did she press a.

button and then when she come through. the line ask me for cat food I was like. what I don't serve that but what did. they ask you to do just put something in. their bag for the cat like how' you know. no I I no I just they heard them and. stuff and then them guys you know like I. said they have to come through uh the. detector oh they metal detector oh yeah. we got metal DET oh so you're in the. trenches over there I'm in lower lower. West Side wow oh. yeah y'all are in there wow yeah um okay. so you have some children will bring a.

cat or a even a snake through um and do. you think it's just cuz they don't want. to be alone from their pet or they just. yeah probably just want to see their. pets and stuff like that their parents. probably didn't even know they snuck. them out half the time you know what I. mean so I mean if they could sometimes. the kids would let a dog in if they. could so it could run around yeah like. you know who your laugh to people tell. you that your laugh reminds me of. um dude they have the lady from the Adam. Sandler thing if you can find.

it a little bit yours is way more. Charming. sloppy made them extra. sloppy. listen I know her laugh is oh that's too. funny I never thought of that lady. scaring I do sound like her. just just her laugh though you're way. prettier than oh that's funny she's. pretty too but um uh is it tough to see.

some of the kids like grow and get in. leave sometimes or there's some kids. you're like man that kid's G like we. really wish they could stay yeah I like. wonder what happened to some of them. that you really liked that you don't see. that much no more um and some you see in. well they're not really doing as well. because I'm there in the neighborhood. but uh I see so much bad good you know. 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 uh nursing school or I did I. then I'm very excited that you know cuz. where we're at yeah so like my son he he. couldn't wait to get out of Cleveland he. got married and just moved away he was. gone he was gone as soon as he left and. then I had to get a dog and named Mo. because he was named Joe and I lost him. he oh you got get a dog that rhymes with. your son's right so I replace him with.

my dog Mo that's fair yeah and where did. you um is there a lot of like dating. like do a lot of janitors come by the. lunch area trying to holler and trying. to like cuz that's what I felt like when. I was a kid sometime you would see some. of the janitors over there trying to um. you know just like spend a little bit. extra time or something like that mine's. real cool um you only got one. janitor yeah yeah sort of I mean because. well they say they're custodians they.

don't like to be colge in oh yeah sorry. custodian and uh yeah I respect both of. them it just um yeah yeah do the the. last one was a lady and me and her was. real good friends and she owned a lake. house and I used to go with her all the. time down there to New York so that was. awesome and my other one he just left. yeah I hang out with all the people that. are retired too that just. left so yeah I've worked with them for. so long it's like we know each other we. grew up family you know um was it sad to.

see your son graduate like get out of. the like was when he left your school uh. yeah I was very yeah because I got to. keep a very close eye on him then he. thought he was going to get away with. something but I told him I'll transfer. I'll follow you boy and he's like no Mom. no so he did better but then when I. would go to parent conference and I. would start talking they the um teacher. would look like no wonder that's where. he gets it listen to her I'm all hyper.

talking to him I'm like how's my kid. doing they're like oh well he's great I. guess mom like you I guess he's like. we're going to put you in detention. that's what I'm saying hey when I first. started working at school I was I. thought man did I get called to the. office I thought I was going to. detention I was really working there and. they would call you down there yeah just. to tone it down yeah I my my they she. jokes all the time and says that I'm. going have to go outside if I laugh to. cuz during testing you know you're. supposed to be quiet but sometimes the.

teach like I heard you miss I'm like. sorry but they all like so it's cool. sometimes you hear Outburst I'll be just. like and it's all the way upstairs C and. I don't realize goes around the school. but they know it's me yeah that's it huh. yeah it's like a bird almost that you. hear you know right um do you see like. at certain holidays what's that like at. school like around Valentine's or some. kids seem kind of lonely or anything. does that ever happen a little but we. they give those little hearts out and. they give candy and the bigger kids will.

give flour you know it's just yeah they. make a big and we have. dances and stuff and the dances are in. the cafeteria sometimes yeah most of the. cafeteria is like where we have all our. dances and everything and I'm right. there so I like to dance with the kids. really oh yeah I go and enjoy them yeah. oh wow you should work for nickel oh man. we've had a lot of fun. yeah they let you guys dance with the. children at the dances sure oh that's. cool yeah I remember one time we had a.

guy named Mr John and his wife I think. was a teacher I don't know if she was. the teacher she just like was like the. smartest person in our area and she. would hang out at the school but she uh. I got to dance with her one time at a. dance a it's pretty cool I remember well. we had she had my my principles were. great with a lot of things that she does. and we have a mothers son dance and. things like that so I had some buddies a. long time ago and they didn't have a mom. so I went to the dance them danced with. them oh that's sweet and everything yeah.

they were my buddies cuz we do like a. buddy breakfast thing I picked him as my. buddy yeah oh just students yeah you you. kind of get close to some if you see. somebody and they'll say you want to be. my buddy yeah and then you're kind of. like their friend they could talk to if. they're having a hard day or they hug. you every day so it's pretty cool oh. it's important yep and then wow couple. times a year we eat with them talk about. give them a present that's cool cool. yeah um but yeah what are some other. like moments like like have you had some.

unique interactions oh yeah like like. Halloween I like to dress up and. different stuff and then I run through. the crowd and the little kids this year. I was uh um this blow up and it blew up. big too it was cool so I run out and. every but then they kept kinding of. squeeze me and I'm like I'm a pop you. know so I'm trying to get them away but. I can't cuz it keeps blowing. up so we do funny stuff like that. and um I I a couple times uh we would I.

would tutor with the kids you know help. the little ones with math or something. um like whatever she asked like we try. to do you know uh I think we're like a. mixture you know when they're away from. their home we could be their mom their. Grandma they whatever they're crying you. want to go over and make sure they're. all right see what they want you have. kids that'll chase you and hug you every. day sometimes you got to run yeah oh I. run sometimes I have to shut the door. I'm like here she comes and everybody.

laughs cuz she's so beautiful and sweet. but she drives crazy she me alone yeah. someone get a little bit of uh they get. kind just kind of um they really CL yeah. they hug it too much they hug they'll. lick you even oh oh yeah you're right. about that I've seen a child just D. start licking you're just like what is. going on with this child but um dude my. friend told me that um if you look at. anything anything you know what it would.

feel like on your tongue because as a. kid you licked everything and checked. everything out probably I'm sure I yeah. and at first I thought that was crazy. but then if I look at anything you were. probably thinking if I look at he said. cuz when you're a kid you just put. everything in you think about it and you. develop like this me this memory for. well there's nothing I wouldn't try. that's why I said kids don't try. anything nowadays there's nothing I you. know he is that a chocolate gr CH let's. eat that let's try it is there anything. you guys will make BTS Like be honest. with me is there some BTS food that you.

guys will make at the lunch area that's. just for you guys like you ever Brew. something up just for the gang but it's. not for the students well I won't tell. anybody no no we we we the lunch is. there you know um but no like I can't. wait like they're all Spanish so I I. want them to bring me some rice and. beans and stuff so I want their food. yeah so they bring me food all the time. and I'm like all right this is how you. get to your boss know this is. good I just had some yesterday oh yeah.

yeah yeah they got a lot of good food. man but yeah I love it so the ladies. come in and they make me food I'm like. that's the way oh that's beautiful but. uh and now when do the day kind of shut. down so after lunch what happens how do. you guys shut it down like the last. person leaves and then what after the. last kids gets fed we make sure. everybody's fed and then it's time the. them ladies clean clean up count. everything cuz I got to count everything. like all the milk everything you know.

gets counted for the day really yeah I. do paperwork and everything has a count. so and then it's got to go on the. computer and go down to them of how many. kids we fed um just switching it back. around moving the coolers back for. breakfast for the next day you know. everything's goes back to you know it's. like um you flip a switch you know what. I mean we go for breakfast lunch lunch. breakfast like that Transformer and just. I always said that I said see how we. just did that I said it was like. Transformers I'm like we just.

transformed the kitchen now bam and. people come out and they'll be like dang. Liss you just hit breakfast now it's. like lunch cuz I'll be like. throwing and I'm like we can't play got. to do it we don't have time somebody's. got to do it and I'm one of those people. that are always you know ready to go. yeah yeah I run around like a chicken. with my head cut off cuz I'm a little. nutty you know but it's okay yeah the. more I move you know I just like to keep. going it is and I'm getting old so I. have to you got to keep busy heck yeah. and what's it like like um do you have.

time for dating stuff you guys have to. get up pretty early huh what's the love. life like of a um someone in the lunch. industry oh I've been married 30 years. oh you have oh you got married to the. not the pregnant not the no no no not. the baby dad yeah I got married somebody. else yeah oh nice where didd you meet. your husband at uh in the. yard really not like a prison thing huh. well. no judgment half my family been. incarcerated well yeah I mean he he yeah.

he just got. out hey babes you look good welcome back. welcome back yeah he didn't do it make. me a. breakdown you should guys get oh I guess. he probably is not allowed over at the. school then no no this was so long ago. he's he's good now okay. yeah we won't talk about that yeah we'll. keep that out um so that's nice then so. you got a love you have you have a love.

in your life you have one child that's. your only child oh yeah I was one and. done yeah oh yeah what made you not want. more well I guess that was a whole. experience I mean what the heck I don't. women just keep popping them out are. they crazy it's unreal all that stuff we. had to do and I told that doctor or. whoever I told him this was all too much. for me then he came out with K and I'm. like what the heck I watched kids for. years and they never acted like. that then I have my own and I'm like. like everybody kept saying you're going. to have another one I'm like nope yeah. nope so when he was 10 I got my tub side.

said nope I'm making sure I'm done wow. oh yeah that was it shut down I was shut. that all down the lunch line was over I. got 600 kids a. day I don't even need ity you know now. then you you got to open it up for. breakfast every now well I mean yeah but. see I don't have to have it you know. that to make it easy now wow um do kids. let me get into the financials of it do. children pay for school lunch a little. bit long time ago when I started I'm. going say we had X and Y tickets I.

remember years ago they did we had X and. Y tickets we X was full paid and you got. it free lunch got it or partial P yep. they have the full partial and free oh. they had full dude I remember so I would. get to school god dude it was the most. this was like one of the skit this was. like one of the tougher things I think. when you're a kid like yeah you would. get there and um see if we can bring up. the yeah the school on looking for them. mine looked a little bit different uh oh.

my goodness look those clunch cards no. keep looking to see if you find some. other ones um oh yeah no right there the. red and blue the whole mix of all them. like the game tickets those are the ones. we had yeah and so you get up to the. lady right there' be the lunch lady cuz. they didn't allow men to do it CU I. don't believe men should do it we got a. couple men in the system now but we'll. talk about this other times of change. yeah but um we would get in there and. you had to go up to her and you had had. to tell her if you were uh if you paid. you had to just buy the ticket from her.

and if you were free you had to tell her. you were free and I was just it always. felt so embarrassing because it always. be like another kid right behind you or. in front of you so you'd always say it. like I'm for you know and if the bus got. there early you could get breakfast that. was the thing if the bus so based on how. Miss Hazel was doing and bless her heart. or whatever if she's alive or not. hopefully she's alive but she might not. be but she was awesome but she uh. sometimes she would love gag sometimes. she would stop or drive slow and smoke.

and so we would get there a few minutes. later and we would miss breakfast and. then you were just beside yourself you. didn't even you know cuz you had to get. all the way to like 11:4 right right. that's what that right and you would. just keep going to the water fountain. just drinking as much water as you. could and um yeah and I remember even. one of my teachers like go get you some. of that breakfast water out there. breakfast water yeah that's what they. used to say Miss Smith would always say. that but anyway yeah then at lunch I. don't know if we got our tickets in. advance for the week or if you had to go.

and do the same thing at lunch um but. you would always try to sneakily say. yeah free lunch or whatever you know. I'll take a y one or just something like. that or I would try to pretend like I. was giving them money I wasn't it was. like I was a magician just cuz I didn't. want the other kids to see because you. know kids get so embarrassed no they. they do yeah but then once you got the. ticket yeah and you were free to the. line usually you would get a tray or. like a little carton uhhuh like a little. plastic kind of little Carton and and. then you would go like to the milk or. beverage area first get that then you.

would go into the room where the actual. kitchen was and you would have the line. there you would get your line items come. out and um then that was it you was free. to go sit down and. eat it was awesome it was yeah that was. like the best thing ever dude what what. uh is the funnest thing to serve to the. kids is there something you really enjoy. like I like to serve the pizza cuz it's. one. piece cuz I can throw the pizza. but when I got like mashed potatoes corn.

chicken a raw you know I'm sorry now I'm. like it's too much and everybody yeah. everybody's picky so they don't want. gravy some want gra you know it's like. yeah and now they're like allowed to. pick what they want we used to give them. all of it so oh they used to yeah that's. crazy you get to pick what you want we. would have to get whatever sometime they. give you a bunch of junk you're like. some of this it wouldn't even I don't. think some of it was food or whatever. and you would just have to take it back. to your table you know oh yeah seen so. much waste back in the day we'd have the. like a bean burrito all these kids would.

just you know what I mean just throw it. away just throw it away you just cooked. all those just B be in the garbage like. d the Apple I feel like would always get. thrown away sometimes yeah yeah you. would be like I don't know if I'm eating. this yeah you know that would always be. a tough one I've ordered less apples now. yeah yeah because of the other ones are. more popular that we have now that. they're trying different you know. watermelon. it's gone I'm Watermelon Man I have to. we'll be cutting 10 water we'll be.

cutting those watermelon and what type. of cutter are you using back there do. you guys have a sanctioned knife that. you have to use or something we have a. couple. knives yeah like that we got a couple. knives we use for those which we just. Ser sometimes it was hard especially. with my hands hurting all the time I was. like man these watermel that's crazy. yeah but then we got this one that you. put like the orange or the Apple thing. in you could go oh really out I like. that one yeah I could do that all day. yeah yeah that's nothing um yeah I guess.

you if you get that F that fancy one's. really nice I'm trying to think of what. we had oh they would do baked potatoes. do y'all still do those sometimes 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 they seemed to. like it yeah it was nice cuz they had. like sour cream with it and get you a. little bit of bacon bit or whatever cuz. they didn't let you use bacon bits in. our community if you was a child first. of all oh yeah. was an adult thing bacon so then to get. to school when you pull up and they got.

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so much fun man going to lunch was just. like a b it was like it was kind of the. bigest part of the day because it was. that was your break right and do they go. into recess after lunch yep before and. after we get them switched like we got. uh 20 minutes to 20 minutes like some of. them are outside then they'll come on in. then those ones will go outside so we're. just keep going like that yeah tell me. about take me down some of the tough. moments like has there ever been like a. a food recall or something that happened. where there was just a a food people got. sick from that day was there ever just a.

flu that went around oh that is so funny. you said that so years ago and it was. quite a while I don't know maybe 18. years ago we did have this problem and. there was flu going around and. everything and a couple kids came in the. lunchroom and they threw up well that. started uh the other kids looking at. them doing it next thing I know they. call they got buses UL they got. everybody pulling my food doing it and. I'm like. tripping I'm like what and they're like. it's a she really like you were witch.

like the Salem wit had Parents saying. don't eat the and I'm like oh yes and. then the what was that one guy he was. trying to come from the and I was. running with my hoodie on cuz I was like. I've never yes no yeah I swear I was. tripping what you do that's what it is. and they wrote this article and then I. don't know a couple weeks later when. they realized it was they wrote this. little thing like it wasn't the food. there were second was over but they made. me like look and then downtown would be.

like and Melissa tell them about that. you know when the kids got all and I'm. like what how he got a cre breaking this. up like you were Hester pran or. something I'm so glad that those kids. are probably long gone out of it by now. yeah because that stuck with me for a. little while yeah little BTSD from that. I'll be walking down the street yeah and. all of a sudden they'll be like she is. I'm like oh my God I did the pizza oh my. God I start tripping we had the bad. macaroni they did yes do you remember. the bad macaroni of. 2001 yeah where were.

you where were you when people ate bad. macaroni I ate it and I'm. okay you're like I survived you should. have made t-shirts said I survived the. macaroni of 2001 I know that would have. been a good one that would have been. people forget that there's a marketing. possibility even within um famine and. disease you know and edible diseases. yeah people forget that all the time. yeah because we would have people would. get um we'd have bad milk come through.

or bad cattle we come through town. sometimes they're you know you you get. spoiled milk yes and you had no idea why. it could have been that the truck was. parked overnight next to like a. something that had was heating it up you. just never know too much time in the sun. on the way there something here. something and everybody would just be. having bad milk you know well the kids. will let me know if they trust me. they'll let me know if they have. something yeah yeah I mean a couple. times we got milk and like there was. like that much like the cartons they.

didn't fill it up I kept saying why is. all these kids want another milk until I. figured out he wasn't really getting. there I'm like oh I'm telling them. no damn like now I got to get all this. milk but that's the look that's how it. is out in some of the you know that's. how it is you can't you just never know. what's going to happen that's life too. you don't ever you don't you always. don't know the milk that you're going to. get um true any food fights kids always. say we're going to do a food fight it. never happens that's what I feel like. there's always the rumor of a food fight.

today we're going and then never ends up. going down at my school not as much but. I did sub at a school that's closed now. a long time ago and the kids said food. fight I went with mashed potatoes in my. hair I had stuff hanging off me so they. decided they really was going to do it. and they did it and they did it yeah. praise God and I'm like all right man I. wasn't too M upset with it it was kind. of cold you know yeah well that that's. that was like the big thing I don't know. if kids care about that anymore yeah I.

don't I yeah I mean they might throw. like peelings I mean they might throw us. little things but they're not like. getting up having the big you know yeah. they're not like it's like a big. organized thing CU there's always like. this thing like kids were going to. organize do it and then it comes down to. it and it never happened I think it was. more of wasn't there a movie that there. was a food fight in can you look that up. there is there is I can't what was that. movie that had a food fight in it it was. a 90s movie uh the great race Matilda oh. hook hook had a great food fight in it.

like at the uh Bangarang scene that was. very big oh Animal House a that was it I. think Animal House had a huge one so. that's I think it's so funny a lot of. times you takes on the right back to. like um a popular movie or TV show and. that's where it started. um do you remember your lunch ladies. from being. a um. not very many I don't think they were. very nice then really and one thing that.

I always said after I got in there was. that I'm not going to be like that. because you know we get a WAP you know. like really yeah because some people are. you know they act like that mean little. lunch ler you can only have one ketchup. yeah and I always thought I'm going to. be like the cool one you know so then I. am so then I think it works out because. I don't remember too many you know. really. good ones yeah yeah I remember a couple. time they had I mean also for a lot of.

young men it's you know like you think. that lunch lady is pretty cute cuz it's. the first woman you kind of get to talk. to right at that's like kind of not like. a teacher or your M it's like the first. person that you're like well who is this. person you know and they smile at you or. whatever you ever have a student try to. like get your number or do like try to. no they they might flirt a little bit. like trying to get some extra chicken. ball or something but like yeah all. right you know get boy yeah they trying.

to pull up on them Ys huh yeah they. think so so I'm old enough to be your. great grandma you better roll. out yeah you got to shut him down early. know you got to um what about fights any. fights they have at school are you guys. allowed to get involved in that what's. that like at school if that happens well. there's fights but we you're supposed to. get security mhm I mean I don't wait. sometimes I will try but now with big. kids no way those guy those guys are.

huge yeah they'll swing me across the. floor somewhere I'm like nope so I'll. just go over and try to find one of. security go on you know and then they'll. try but uh other people in their. teachers and stuff you know we get I'm I. won't get involved not the big kids no. um do the teachers is there a good. relationship with teachers and and lunch. women or lunch women and now men because. men are attacking the industry but um is. there a lot of good uh or are they arch. nemesises of each other is there like.

what's the energy like between lunch. lunch people and teachers I never. thought about that at different schools. it'd be different but for me I've got. along with most of most of them and. stuff like that and I don't I don't I. have a good relationship with them you. know cuz everybody wants a milk every. once in a while it's not mine you know. uh I guess it depends on who it is. powerful statement everybody wants some. milk you know cuz they do and I always. think when they walk in and if they're. like acting mean to me I'll be thinking.

you want a milk for me one day if I give. it to you you'll need me you'll pull up. on this yeah you'll pull up on this. utter yeah that's right you want me to. order those bag lunches for you don't. you true oh for field trips that's what. I said so some yeah if if you'll have a. couple but not very many but if they act. a little too you know it's fine cuz you. know they got to come to me for. something they got to come through yeah. you that's true I might be the little. one down there it you're like the. government that's right yeah the food. you still got to pay your taxes food is.

government it really is and a lot of. cultures it is yeah well yeah it's like. if you're in a even in a village when. somebody comes back with the food that. person is the government that day they. have the food they determine how. everything going to go I always tell my. ladies I'm like man sometimes I walk. through the hall and I think they're. looking at me like a chicken leg or. something you know so yeah who you. talking about some of the janitors or. whatever no the the kids the staff you. know depends they smell like they they. have loaded Nacho Day you know it's like. everybody's looking like Melissa's got.

nachos and I just could see everybody hi. Melissa like H yeah they know so they. know yeah they know it' be nice too. people know where their bread is butter. that's what it is you know just like me. I know I need the custodian so you got. to be nice to I need toilet paper and. stuff you know you learn who you have to. be good with when L Ricky pukes that's. right you know you're gonna need to call. you know. it um yeah what's a field trip day like. so how does that break down well the. field trips and stuff they order like.

bag lunches and and what goes into the. bag lunch um when I make it it's like a. sandwich a PB&J sandwich unrustable mhm. um oo yeah they love those and I get. strawberry and grape and I kind of like. them too so if I'm Running Y will make. those yourselves no they come you order. from uncrust we order those yeah wow. that's nice yeah those things are pretty. good but then I'll make a bag with those. and some Goldfish crackers a string. cheese. applesauce and some carrots bam there's. our lunch damn they're out we got I.

remember meat sandwich with mustard yep. and you got extra mustard somehow for re. I know and that's I know you're like. first of all I I'm a child I don't eat. mustard the first time I got a lot of. mustard mustard is for Polish. adults let's be let's be. honest so there's no reason I should. have to eat it and then and then you. gave me more mustard so that would be.

scary you'd always see that one kid that. would end up being an alcoholic and he. be over there just eating the mustard oh. you know what we got him with the hot. sauce y'all got hot sauce oh yeah now we. give hot sauce and the kids love hot. sauce but I catch the little ones over. there with the. packs yeah I'm like what that's so hot. or they're keeping in the pack I'm going. to take this home to my dad for some. like okay for Christmas or whatever. that's crazy hey you know they got no. sa um but so you packed those you sent.

them out on the field trip when do you. pack those tonight before you pack them. in the morning I get everything ready. except for the sandwich and then in the. morning I just throw the milk in a. cooler how many ever's going and then. put the sandwich in there and it thaws. through the day so they could eat it by. lunchtime cuz you don't want to leave. those out too long cuz one thing is. nasty as like the next day you know it. gets like hard or starts to go seeping. through so that very first day when it.

first just thaws it's the best so you. guys will put the you mean for the. Lunchable you mean for the crust uh yeah. for I use those for the U bag lunches. for the bag lunches right the PB and JS. and do they get a meat option in there. or no meat option in there they used to. but I haven't had one in a while okay. yeah um what's some of the best things. about the. job um time goes really fast cuz I'm. always busy MH um I don't feel like it's. a job job even though I'm getting paid. because I'm having fun I try to make my.

work fun yeah and I make the ladies. dance I'll tell them all okay we're. getting too serious stop put some music. on start to get the groove for a minute. um we all started laughing doing dishes. just joking I told him I want this to. feel comfortable I want us not to feel. like you know just cuz we're working. doesn't mean you can't have fun you know. so in my kitchen it's about having fun. do your job and let's have fun you know. while we're doing it and then I like to. act crazy around you know the principal.

or anybody cuz they all know me and. they're like there's there's Melissa you. know yeah so I do some crazy stuff like. I don't know how to swim and I went on a. and she took me on a trip with her and. her son was like I said I always wanted. to jump in the deep water you know oh. yeah here he goes he gives me his mama's. life jacket I put that sucker on last. summer and I was diving off diving for. with little kids I was so excited first. time ever yeah I was like yeah all the. kids.

was the older people were kind of like I. don't really know what she's doing yeah. a wish I was it right wow and you just. got right out in there in the water yep. just got right to UL right off the. diving board in it but once I know that. you know I would yeah you're safe yeah. had you ever tried swimming before I've. tried I'm not that great at it so yeah. it sounds like you're not good at it but. had you ever tried before cuz yeah I was. bad at swimming for a while I could back. flow but I I don't I'm what his back. floating though I've never even heard. you be. like that's I'm going to do to save my.

life I think that's called waiting for. rescue I think well I could wait for. rescue for a while but I can't do this. too long and I don't know how you guys. are staying in there just standing there. I don't get it well that's magic if I. see somebody I just don't get it I'll. call the cops dude right it's some. things are just yeah Beyond me a long. time ago they used to think that gay. people would sink in the water straight. people would float like back in the. Witchcraft days that crazy bring that up.

look at that sinking gaze or whatever. sinking. sinking it could. have or yeah sinking Gaye and Witchcraft. if you put that in there. too there was a lot of that man yeah. people well they had a thing if you sank. or float it would determine something. you know and they would then sometimes. I thinkink so what's that mean. what are you trying to. say I'm not saying anything man maybe I.

took a wrong turn in. [Laughter]. life who knows Melissa I know right um. so what's thees social life like when. you're outside of work what do you like. to do for fun personally what keeps you. busy you know obviously you really find. a lot of joy in your work and that's. awesome you know yeah and it's important. to notice that well they noticed I was. employee of the year at school too oh. yeah. 9 yeah and the mayor mayor's uh brother. gave me an award I was like his brother.

what's his brother doing I don't know he. was. there anyway but they gave me a party. and a gift card and all this I was like. all Richie give me $100 to a steakhouse. I was like yeah I'm going to get the. biggest freaking steak you know yeah and. uh I felt cool but I was a little. excited you know how did you know you. won was their finalist or what happened. yeah it was it was Employee of the Month. like all of us like the 12 and then they. said we're going to pick one so I I was.

waiting I was like this waiting to eat. you know I was looking at the food like. man that looks good you oh you all at. the hurry up yeah so I was thinking. hurry up you dress up for it yeah I. dressed up a little bit but I looked a. little crazy well I always change you. know and I did the smile and it's like. you can see my whole tonsils and my. mouth cuz I smile too big cuz I laugh L. yeah and they put that picture big. downtown so now we walk in and you see. me and everybody's like is that Melissa. I'm like yes that's me so that's the.

picture they picked I guess I you see. every two count my I'm like yeah there's. me yeah that's awesome yeah but it was. cool it was really cool though um just. for being funny and trying to you know. because everybody's so serious sometimes. and then the big boss come out everybody. so scared and they're so and we're all. there to do the same thing you know I. just make him laugh tell them let's just. you know let's just be fun yeah yeah I. have I have a lot of fun memories of.

going into the lunchroom and sometimes. you would get the Sur and you would get. a fork that was all banged up like oh. yeah what happened I don't know but I've. seen some and they look like all of them. are mush to the paper towel thing or. something or you'll see just the the. tall the like to the the fingers of the. fork will be like you know one of them. will be way out like that and you're. just like what happen what happened like. sorry you can't have another Fork you're. going to have to eat with your finger. today. bro we're on a crisis budget.

cuts you're like what happened that's. what I'm saying um do you what would. what would you change about school. launches you know one of the biggest. things I think I would change cuz like I. said they're getting better but. everybody eats the same. portions I would give the bigger kids. more portions okay I think like instead. of that one chicken leg that every. body's getting besides you know the. other stuff that they could get on the. side I'd give them two yeah I just think. that the bigger kids are big I mean we.

got some big boys I mean big girls you. know and they're got to be hungry that's. just not enough I don't think you know. but I mean we do have the solid bar they. can fill up with that but you know they. want the meat they want the real deal. yeah younet that's what I'm saying they. want more of those so when I hook them. up they'll be like M I give them a. couple more nuggets and like oh you're. my girl you know I'm like I know I got. you that feels good it does feel good it. feels good when I see kids at I go. places like to a wedding or something. and I see all these kids are at the.

wedding because I had family friends. I've had all the nieces and nephews I've. had everybody go through school so. they'll be like I remember when you gave. me that other a she was cool like that's. right it feels good to ju to just uh. McNugget up a child right oh it does you. want some more fries boy here you go. put a McNugget in be talking. about me they be like man look me up. with this plate I got some nephew. children I'll damn McNugget them. bastards up oh yeah god it feels good. makes you rest easier well it does it.

really does I know i' that's what I said. some of the kids you know they're hungry. yeah or they'll tell me that they hav't. aid you know and do youall play any. music in there uh Spanish music yeah a. lot of we play we in our kitchen we play. some cuz like I said all my ladies are. Spanish lot of Latino co-workers huh. employes yeah they amazing what they. could do with a broom oh yeah oh my God. that they scrub that place with a broom. really oh yeah they're wonderful. cleaners but um very true uh I have a. lot of friends and um my grandmother was.

a house cleaner and my mom was too okay. and then um a lot of my uh friends. parents growing up we in the house. cleaning and stuff and some of my Latino. friends their their parents still clean. houses I tried it for a minute did you. yeah oh so you tried a different. business oh yeah when the in the. summertime if I didn't work down at. school I did all jobs oh really oh yeah. like so what are some of the summer jobs. nobody ever thinks about that what do.

freaking Lunch Ladies do during the. summer oh I I well the last the year. before because I got surgery last summer. so I was down with my stupid carbo. tunnel my trigger finger stck like this. and why do you have to get surgery be. honest just too much scooping oh yeah. they said um repetitious movements so. now my bag you know things because you. do them so long sometimes it'll be burn. like yeah yeah how much Scoops can one. wrist do. overall man I don't know I just keep. them rolling really like I said you some.

people are like man look at her but I'll. be sweating but I'm getting older now. though so this I mean I'm. like might don't ask me to do nothing. with my hands when I get home cuz yeah. hey. look my RO hurt hey. look no wonder your guy went to prison. okay you got to do what you got to do. that's what I'm saying I know I'm sorry. I just got I've served all I'm serving.

honey that's it no more seconds no more. firsts. right but no I I just try to go fast cuz. I've watched people and they'll be like. you got 600 kids I'm like dude you got. to move right keep gring but people say. not fast you know what is a kid that. comes in that's kind of heartbroken you. ever notice a kid that's having a tough. time you ever had a like a oh I run. right over oh gosh yeah and what is some. of that are you ever able to like over. time do you able to pinpoint some of the. commonalities of what some of those. moments are like a lot of it is like um.

another kid don't like them yeah they're. getting picked on or the they want to be. friends with this child and they don't. want to be friends with them oh it's so. isn't that so big to kids it's very yeah. and I'm like looking but then to them. it's so big yeah so I always tell them. you know if they don't want it's okay. you know don't worry about it they'll be. liking you tomorrow you know what I mean. this and that just try to make them feel. better and they get over it and then you. see them talking to their they'll be. best friends tomorrow they just need. help getting through that they just need.

to get through and it is and they're. yeah so whenever we do see one down we I. immediately want to go over to that one. and see why yeah especially since we got. a lot of kids that are Smiley like me. and bubbly when I see them so if they're. not bubbly just like they do the same. thing to me if I come to work and I'm. not feeling it that day like there's. just something wrong they can feel it oh. they'll lift you up oh they come in and. they're like Miss Melissa you're all. right cuz they know that I'm not like. laughing don't hear that big loud laugh. everywhere then there's something wrong. with Melissa that day that's true yeah.

she I didn't heard her laugh too much so. yeah that's interesting you know we're. the keys to each other's locks that's. what my buddy always says he always say. oh yeah they they do they they can pick. up on it what are some of the other. summer jobs you've had God I can't. believe I never knew that that those. beautiful women were wandering off into. our town and doing other. employment I was a secretary. uh which sitting down isn't. my thing h no I was like man let me. clean this place I don't want to be a.

secretary I'll clean your place okay. girl gotta get off yeah I can't just sit. it's crazy that's too much for me um. I've uh worked at Dave's grocery store. cashier and I like that I was a cashier. for a bit I liked it all these people. coming through and some like what's up. yeah it is pretty fun cashier was fun. stocking was fun I didn't love getting. the carts a lot of times I didn't like. to get the the the carts and putting the. stuff back and they were wet and you.

like what it had even been raining why. is this cart all wet yeah you wonder. what you're touching yeah just people. are gross I'm doing take backs and I. think they're peeling they're open I'm. like it would be very hectic a lot of. yeah you never know what they're doing. oh yeah it just felt insane like it was. like a lot of ustation fluid or I don't. I don't even know but yeah a lot of. times it's very confusing I cleaned I. cleaned some houses and that one was. kind of fun unless her house was really. dirty yeah some people and they you know. these were some richy people and I'm. like yeah but one time this old lady.

made me a sandwich let me go in a pool. that was really cool yeah why was it. your birthday or something no she just. must have liked me cuz we started. talking you know and sometimes I'll just. make a friend I get invited to a party. yeah heck yeah real easy oh yeah wow. yeah I gets around somebody else and. their friend is like hey you want to. come to I'm like yeah all right you know. I could be sitting at home doing nothing. having nothing then B am I'm at a party. eating shrimp and drinkos I'm like this. is insane yeah so you never know what's.

going to happen your day could change. yeah yeah your day can change that's a. great Point yeah Rich fancy yeah fancy. people love shrimp I feel like yeah they. do and they like me. yeah so I like it yeah um so where's. your son at now is he my son he's a. cable man in masselin and he told me to. tell you because he's big fan all them. guys watch you oh praise man yeah what's. up what's his name Joe Joe that's what's. up Joe anel Joe Rocka Joe Rocka.

yeah wow it sounds like he should be in. prison it's that name Roa know right. yeah and I don't mean that don't go to. prison Jo we want you out here but hey. if you go away. bro I'll send you commentary son free. Joey I got your mother Joy that's a good. one like freey free Joey. um yeah and he and he's married I got a. great teacher daughter-in-law oh she's a.

teacher oh yeah gr teacher after I've. been around nope she's in Mass I'm in. Cleveland wow yeah she's from the better. part and I'm from the ghetto so we like. share our. stories yeah we watch her little kids. like and then you go to mine you know. and you got it it's two different very. different universes different universes. and I've been to both of them so it's. really funny to see oh you have oh yeah. I've went to places cuz I got grandkids. oh so you've worked at other schools and. your own no I've I've um subbed but I've.

went to other schools with her oh I yeah. to see what it was like so lunch ladies. will sub at another school um back in. the day they did but there was a point. when I just stopped yeah because I have. a home plate and I didn't have to do it. no more you know that was for the other. people so they still send subs and stuff. you know around but I I qu quit subbing. and do you get at a certain point do you. get a um pension do lunch ladies get a. pension oh yeah yeah yeah I get S uh.

it's like a retirement plan uhhuh so. SCS so how long does that take to build. up I don't know anything about it well. um like I've got 31 but my age so like. when I'm 57 I'll have 35 years and I can. retire with the full benefits and. cheaper Insurance all that but my age is. still there you know what I mean I'm not. going to be 65 couldn't get um Medica. Medica and all that so there's a little. cuz I started too early but hopefully I.

could if as long as I'm healthy and. running I want to keep running you can. keep working oh yeah I don't want to sit. at home what am I going to do at home he. bomb bombs and get. fat yeah just be yeah you just H yeah. there's there's nothing to do then my no. my brain won't quit talking it's like I. I got to go yeah it's much better to. talk to people than myself all the time. you know what I'm saying yeah um did you. ever try to go into your own business at. any point where or do you like working. with the group no I like the group I've. never really tried yeah yeah just didn't.

know if that was something that. different people think about or not or. sometimes do well if I could have. thought of something you know but I. didn't know what else I would be good. at I mean I'm sure I could have probably. did something else but you know yeah I. mean smart and I liked other Jazz but. you know this is where I've been yeah. someone I think it makes me more happy. too to be around so many people that's. what I was thinking because doing your. own thing can definitely be the other. side of the track you know you just. really you can isolate a lot right right.

right um any parents ever confront the. lunch staff about anything does that. ever happen oh yeah um couple times. through the years I don't think a lot of. principal stuff wouldn't like let them. you know but I've had had fathers or. something ask me something you know like. angry about a soup or angry about a. poridge or something my kid said that he. he would didn't like that you something. you know and it's like y'all serving bad. lamb or something you know and I'm likee. but not too many with me I mean I even.

talk to a lot of the parents because. I've seen the kids so long yeah so I try. to be friendly with all of them explain. if they ask me something but I don't try. to get into too much rift raft cuz you. know I live in the neighborhood right so. you want to keep things PC that's right. you want be seeing me up at the grocery. store with some parents like there there. she. is gosh you're kind of like the Don. Corona right in the area I don't even. know I noticed in nature a lot of. animals will kind of like fatten up for.

winter or whatever does that happen with. children too do you think yeah I think. so I do I think that they eat and they. get more in them for it and the. summertime they're like wanting to run. around so much out there I see that they. eat less and I see their lunch the. garbage is heavier oh really in the. summer than it is in the winter I made a. comment one time I'm like wow I noticed. that huh yeah because they want to run. outside I think and so you think in the. summer they're throwing more stuff away. whereas in the winter they're eating. because they want to yeah I do because. they're sitting there and there's.

nothing else to do they're not going. outside you know but when they're like. rare and go and it's beautiful out like. you you'd be like oh forget it I don't. want to finish this you know yeah 100% I. mean not me I'm going to eat it real. fast and then go but you know that's a. good point some kids are like oh it's. too much fun out there when you can feel. your body want to go play like hide and. go seek or something we have to eat oh. it's the worse for a kid right it's like. God I don't want to be eating right I. could be having fun you know it um what. do the kids do they interact when. they're at the table together and stuff. like what do kids do or they just kind.

of eat their lunch like no they they. talk. argue. um yeah they interact with each other. and stuff through the whole Lunch Period. and stuff like that. uh I can't really I'm like dumb for a. minute I've been dumb for so long here. take a take a minute all right yeah do. you ever you ever see like a like milk. come out of a kid's nose people always. say that yeah oh I've saw that a couple. times oh yeah and the other day it was.

just funny just the other day they're. coming through the lunch line and they. were playing outside too hard and the. little boy just throwing up right in my. lunch oh yeah and I'm like okay I'm G to. look up and everybody's like I can't. look I'm like well come on guys just. hurry up let's do this get them out of. here and I'm telling the little ones. quit looking they're like oh yeah but. yeah when stuff starts coming out of. their nose because they're laughing or. yeah they probably think of other things. that they're going to do you know and. you got to tell them don't take that. food cuz it's going to get warm and then.

you'll get sick. yeah yeah kids I think they're and. they're just so like energetic at the. time they'll vomit for no reason a lot. of times like somebody just Pats him on. the background know that's why I was. saying I said yeah yeah see the same one. still thrown on he better quit. playing I would like to him to eat first. before he goes outside yeah and then. let's put a diaper on right um do are. kids allowed to bring phones in school. these days yes no way yeah they're.

supposed to not use this and and that. but they so some of them have phones out. during the day I see kids with phones. yeah no way I cannot even imagine that. yeah I never had a phone back then so I. yeah right that was such a better Vibe I. feel like yeah me too I think there's. too much on it on the phones yeah what. would you change about like the lunches. that we serve to kids anything or do you. feel pretty good about them right now. I'm feeling a little bit better about.

them like I said this year because. there's bringing out more different. things that I think the kids would like. um we do a general souls and rice um. don't do General so's chicken yeah it's. good I love it I'd be messing it up on. General SES day yeah yeah there are. certain days that I get excited you know. cuz I'm like oh I'm going to eat that so. and we all save a little little bit of. the better side of things for yourselves. I mean I might have a little bit more. sauce on.

mine hey you know I hate it I think. that's fair so yeah I think that we I do. really believe that this year I think is. like one of the best with it's coming. with lunches and stuff for the variety. of different things that we have so he's. he's moving up like I said I'm I'm. interested to see more of what he does. the new guy that's the new food guy yeah. cuz he's the order he's the boss he's. the boss of like changing all that and. I've worked with I've worked for about. four different ones so far each one.

brings something different to the table. but right now I'm liking what he's. bringing you know what I mean what was. one of the craziest things you guys ever. served over the years um try to. think the hot dog that used to be in the. beans and it would turn colors and I had. parents and aunts and people old to this. day so ask me about those green hot dogs. with be really yeah but I liked it but. it did it would like turn some color. because it was stuck in the beans yeah. well that's nature I know that's what I.

said I would like it's probably. preservatives or something in it I don't. know oh some of that's just natural. preservatives yeah I mean um we had this. a girl that was rolling yeah there. there's there's been a couple items that. I would have been like uh no and I eat. everything I'm like Mikey and there's. nothing I wouldn't eat oh you uh they. had a egg roll too for a while yeah yeah. the kids didn't really care for that egg. roll so bizarre yeah I remember the. bread they used to have so the bread was. always made in one big pan right it was.

like a whole pan full of rolls and ours. always had this dust on them and people. would be like that's flower and i' be. like it doesn't seem like flour it just. seems like dust oh that's Su yeah so so. we were wrapping our rolls and some of. them will come like that you know with a. whole bunch of and I said s like what is. that they like just flower and that's a. lot of flour on there and the kids will. see it and I'm like they're not going to. believe it's flow I said it looks gross. I don't want to serve that one to it's. just flower exactly that's exactly.

that's terrible our just kind of like. I'm trying to think of the ones oh we. had a couple of these different ones. that one uh can you look up um Dusty. school lunch rolls yeah. maybe is that what he's talking up Dusty. school lunchy school lunch. rolls lunchroom yeah maybe Soft Red. rolls but you know I've had the kids. tell me let's look what's up what's on. this and I'm like it's flour because. that's what they tell me to tell them. it's flour I mean it is flour it doesn't.

seem like flour it seems like science. dust or something yeah maybe yeasty D I. don't know what yeah it could be some. powder something sometimes I thought it. would be like a powder butter or. something they might be putting on but I. could never figure it out and they were. never they never got the rolls really. that good I didn't feel like yeah um we. get different rolls like and bread we. order from different departments at. different times we had sbles once we had. this so the bread's not too bad but you. always find some that comes in like you.

just said with a whole pile of dust I'd. be like was it a hamburger butt it's. covered and yeah the that's what it was. be like look all this white it was the. hamburger buns a lot of times when they. make them they must just throw that flow. at them after they pack them it was but. it does look funny because people don't. want to eat there because you know yeah. and kids do make those comments they. notice anything on the food anything if. it looks just a little strange or. something they're gonna make a comment. on you know so but I hate to be like one.

of those yeah just flower CU everybody. say like it's not I know but I'm like I. don't know is it um do you guys ever. serve Sloppy Joe's ever we did we. haven't this year or whatever but there. was years we did some of the kids liked. it um we had a teacher there years ago. and he did a little skit with me on this. Sloppy Joe's. oh yeah about Adam Sandler yeah and I. wore the white when I first started they. gave me that white dress MH and all that.

and you had to look yeah oh you had to. dress a certain way yeah but thank. goodness that didn't last long for me. pull up that outfit we switch yeah go on. with that one lunch lady white dress and. I'm young now mind I'm like he do look. like with these loafer shoes. on oh you had to wear the white shoes. yes I remember those they were like k. swis or something sneak exactly right. right. there that's what they gave me one of. those white white wow and so um we did a.

little skit or whatever it's around. there somewhere on YouTube Somewhere who. knows where it's at but um I put a mole. on and all that and we lunch do Sloppy. Joe's yeah so it was fun but they never. serve them anymore huh no they haven't. serve sloppy toes for a long time and I. the kids seemed to like it and it was. the only place you could get it at was. school that's what I'm saying such a. bizarre thing you're like I don't even. know what it is it's like a it's mag of. me like you know what really is it it's.

like it's not a hamburger just a are you. sure is that a we name them different. things but we just change a. little well you could always kind of. tell is there stuff that if there's. leftovers from the first day then you'll. use it in different recipes throughout. the week yeah huh because you don't want. to waste stuff no um all hot foods got. to be thrown oh really yeah that's is. this is why you're like if you're the. manager you have to know not to overcook. too much cuz they don't want there right. but um they like pasta and meatballs.

yeah oh those meatballs boy they're hard. to deal with yeah for my hands they seem. to want to just throw then I start. singing to the kids and I Dro my poor. meatball and me rolling oh from that. song remember yeah what was that that. was a book was it I dropped my when. somebody sneezed and rolled off the. table and not floor that my morning beat. ball was out the. door I remember that we like to tease. them in joke on top of spaghetti there.

it is spaghetti. spaghetti this coconut. cake and they love the mac and cheese. never mind they love the mac and cheese. yeah they love the mac and cheese God. who doesn't though right I was just. going to say who don't like cheese you. know I you got to put cheese on is good. yeah so yeah that's really the thing. that everybody loves um how big is y'all. School these days days I you're you're. at the side school now I'm at yeah I'm. at the side school but we're doing 600. but when we go back to this new one that.

they're building down the road for me. it's going to be huge and then they're. going to take two take a knack down the. school down the road that and put two. schools to one so I should have over. thousand by then wow but hopefully I get. more help you know yeah the short staff. ain't what you want to hear all the time. it's true and you've already had carpal. tunnel you've already you know that's. what I said I'll just keep going you're. like the Aaron roders of the lunch lady. IND yeah I know. R that's good I like it you really are.

but we need you back out there what. happened during the time off with the uh. surgery well I did the summer I I didn't. take off because I don't like to really. miss work so I didn't take off I just. went and had the surgery right after um. we got out of school but then it wasn't. really healing as good I think I messed. it up a little bit as I went back. earlier you know did you yeah but it's. all right you know you know it's hard. not to use your hands I mean yeah it's. hard I mean if I try if you put a hand.

it's too hard so this one I just got a. shot roosters do it or like chickens. kind of do it. right yeah if I could be like a chicken. I don't want to say they're dumb I don't. know a lot of them but some of them are. I mean a lot of them. are I don't want them to hear me say it. I know right one my chase. after we see chickens all the time yeah. and I watch them across the street and. then come back yeah yeah people got. chickens everywhere really by you yeah. huh wonder why I I don't know for the.

eggs I think probably sell the eggs. maybe they're going to get a golden egg. yeah my my sister has some chickens in. her home I think um or she did anyway. some of them might have gotten out um. what else anything in the news was there. let me think of was something I was. going to ask you about I'm still looking. for uh floating gay witches yeah you. look at gay yeah you know what yes did. you anything on that sinking gay um. witchcraft I found not the gay part but.

the the which part you're spot on about. he said not the Gay Part bring it part. the ordeal usually involved the tying of. a sus of a suspect's wrist to their. ankles and then throwing the individual. into a body of water with ropes attached. wow contrary to popular belief if the. suspect sank they were presumed innocent. and hauled up it was not common for them. to perish unless they did did so. accidentally should they float however. this was taken as confirmation of their. alliance with the devil so you had to.

sink 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 and the result was therefore. seen as a revelation of God's judgment. man you better put something in your. make sure you're sinking you better eat. a heavy lunch you know something well I. don't know how to swim so I'm. sinking you better eat a heavy lunch. right um anything else we need to know. about the trade about the lunch trade. about the the industry anything um you.

said there was men infiltrating the. business is that there's there's a. couple men yeah that's working in the. kitchens now and is that new is that no. I think they've been there for a minute. I I I've only worked with like. one and are these bisexual men or is it. all types of men you think all types yep. yeah all types everybody loves lunch. baby oh they do yeah I love it I love it. I don't care if I loved men or women I. would still make lunch for myself and. others well yeah me too I don't care who.

it is yeah same here you got to eat. everybody's got to eat every that's why. I tell them you got to eat you know it's. a for yeah that's how I feel I don't. care you yeah I'm just trying to think. of anything else we want to learn about. the industry we've learned who that the. kids come in we've learned that. sometimes you have to step over and give. them a hug if having a tough time we. learn sometimes they bring cats and. snakes through just because that's. what's going on um the food PL what.

about I know didn't they have Michelle. Obama had a program a few years back. yeah we got a we got quite a few things. dropped off and stuff and she gave a lot. of stuff out to parents it was called. get right what was that program. called it was uh the healthy hunger free. kids act change nutrition standards for. the national school launch program by. requiring that schools serve more fruits. vegetables whole grains and fat-free. Andor low-fat milk more frequently and. less starchy vegetables or foods high in.

sodium and trans. fat um did that take effect did you. actually see that happen in the school. system because a lot of things that. politicians and you know yes that she. they really did that and they came out. and gave boxes of the whole entire like. uh meals to parents and stuff and told. them how to do it with spices everything. oh wow and also they give them um a bag. of fruit each week to take home mhm um.

they have a lot of free fruit and. vegetable program then once a month we. have a free like produce and everything. outside so parents everybody comes and. gets. it oh wow so there's a lot of stuff from. yall school that's available for the. community a lot that you guys don't use. at school yeah that's nothing to do with. you exactly wow yeah it's amazing yeah. uh like I said there's always trucks. dropping off that they put stuff in the. kids book bags for them take them for.

have a meal for the weekend so yeah your. your mom ever come over to the school. and get a meal from. you. um well I had my had a stepmom she pass. oh she passed away yeah but I didn't. like her food anyway you didn't. no or her much but it's cool we'll talk. about. that hey look it's stepmoms are harder I. have my real mom but she's never came to. school to she hasn't no oh she should.

come get a meal she's still alive yeah. oh yeah mhm and where does she live in. Illinois no around the corner for me oh. she does yeah you guys just aren't super. close um we see each other yeah she just. doesn't come to the school yeah yeah. yeah I'm trying to think don't they have. parents day or something at the school. where parents come parents yeah they. come in they see and stuff but miss my. principal and stuff feeds them like it. they don't eat like our school food. she'll have other food brought in for. them and they'll eat can a can a kid. have a older brother or a family member.

come and have lunch with them at school. one day or no oh yeah oh yeah sure so. that happens a lot oh yeah oh that's. cool mhm yeah that's fun we got a lot of. yeah and you got a lot of siblings. you'll have like five related you know. in the in the school system in the. school yeah yeah so there's nothing for. that um do you guys ever do like pep. rallies and stuff like that ever what's. that energy yeah they well they'll just. start yeah cuz we they we they could. have high energy you know cuz we get. Rowdy and then when I hear them I get.

Rowdy so then I go running through the. thing you know I make them clap and then. the teacher like there she's m again you. know so most of them kind of know that. I'm going to do it oh yeah you know or. like when they have dance they're like. here here she comes watch cuz you get. the ancy you know I'm like I'm hearing. it am I supposed to just stand there and. work when I got to go over there you. know. yeah so yeah um yeah I'm trying to think. do you still feel like you're in school. a little bit is there is it yeah yeah uh.

yeah I'm like 50 I still feel like like. I've never got out of school like yeah. yeah that's pretty cool it is kind of. yeah it's like and then it's funny. because I talk to people and I'm like. yeah I got to go to school but really. I'm going to work but they probably are. thinking man she's the longest in school. I never seen somebody in school so. long cuz I never say work I just say I'm. going to school like God you think that. she graduate you know they're probably. thinking dang she's still in school um. do you think some kids probably mostly.

eat at school and don't eat at home in. your area yes really a lot of them yeah. we have um children you wouldn't know. from that are homeless and from. everywhere and they go to school no way. oh yeah there yeah is there homeless in. your area yes oh wow a. lot wow mhm that's crazy huh yeah. definitely yeah it's got different over. the neighborhood too you know yeah lower. and lower yeah yeah I think you're. seeing a lot of homeless with. homelessness On The Rise the Supreme. Court weighs ban on sleeping Outdoors oh.

yeah what is that gonna. do I love how they rephrase it to being. sleeping Outdoors pull this up a little. bit more the Supreme Court wrestled with. major questions about the growing issue. of homelessness on Monday as it. considered whether cities can punish. people for sleeping outside when shelter. space is lacking. 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 what.

so the the case started on the case. started in the Rural Oregon town of. Grants Pass which began finding people. 295 bucks they can't even pay for it. they're homeless they don't even have. nowhere to go for sleeping outside is. the cost of housing escalated intense. sprung up in the city's public parks. that's unbelievable cuz yeah you're like. where are people supposed to well they. got a lot of um they make a lot of spots. over there like Tent City and stuff yeah. so there's places that you see a lot of. homeless but I wonder if they would also.

have to is that considered sleeping. outside I don't know you I couldn't see. how how you going to give them 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 right then they're. trying to they're trying to make a home. yeah I. mean somebody's making a house right. well yeah and suen is so expensive like. what do you expect someone to do oh yeah. you know um especially if people get. caught up on you know people get caught. up into drugs pretty easily well there's. a lot of that going now yeah well.

especially will we advertise drugs on. television in this country like it's um. like it's a new toy right right you know. every single one so you can't be shocked. when people end up on drugs and then now. they're stuck. outside and yeah we don't have a place. for them gosh that's unbelievable yeah. imagine getting a ticket yeah I'd be I'd. be laughing at him what do you want me. to do with this I use it for wipe you. know because I don't even have a home I. don't even have a job where you going to.

get 295 for me I'm like hey give me a. whole give me a whole roll of tickets. can you give me some more tickets right. hey give me the soft one I mean what are. they going to do with put him put me in. jail for a minute then I have a home and. I can go to the bathroom get a meal I. mean if that's going to be gosh right. how rude unbelievable or they'll. probably make them start they'll make. schools start feeding people maybe did. you ever try uh like a homeless feeding. program at your school yes really yes. and as a matter of fact in 2020 um when.

all of them was at home I was out there. with n95 mask and we made my Cod made me. this drive through the door because it. was close stuff your custodian made it. for you yeah it was really cool when I. come in yeah and so I could just was. like sh but anybody come at the door and. we would give him. food so I gave a lot of food away around. those couple months yeah students and. homeless students homeless people yeah. anybody anybody and everybody dang yeah. you saw some crazy stuff did you oh I.

mean you know but hey at least it was. free food there wasn't you should you. wasn't hungry cuz there was lots of. places to get free food from yeah people. got to eat yeah you know um I feel like. if I put my glasses on we look a little. bit the same you're a lot cuter. though a little bit I'm half polish are. you yeah yeah mhm my yeah H yeah H H up. H up H up we them boys I know right um. what what are some over what are some.

things you've overheard kids say that. have been funny anything funny that. comes over your head over the years that. anything interesting that like cuz. you're right there on the eaves dropping. you're like I know it's just like it's. so hard to think of things at the time. um I mean I I eases drop all the time. don't get me wrong amen cuz I hear stuff. I'm not supposed to hear I just I just. try not to even you know yeah and they. did what and they're only what so oh. kids making out or whatever and. different things that they talk through.

and I'm like lot of these kids man I. don't even want to hear all that now F. so I try to act like I'm not listening. mhm but uh like someone talk sometimes. like long time ago maybe about their. parents or you get a little bit more. scoop than you should know things going. on and things going on that yeah you. probably shouldn't know yeah um people. smoking this or that yeah well their. clothes smell like when they come in. kind of knew their. mad anything on those sunken gays man.

bring it you got an image on it at least. absolutely nothing just show me the. first. image it comes up if you do it sunken. gays or. witchcraft there we go there we go oh my. gosh hey look oh boy and just go to. Google too and let me see what they have. for it if you put it in there. okay sinking gay men and put uh backs. slash.

witchcraft I'm serious man this was a. big thing when I was growing up and go. to images see what we get right there. one oh bring that picture. up oh so we get a picture of the Navy. yeah see this is well I don't think that. that's what right I don't think that's. what we're talking about Melissa anel I. want to thank you so much for your. service literally for being a smile that. people can see when they cross through. the middle of their day you know you're. kind of like the Meridian in the ocean.

you know where like the time zone kind. of changes when you cross it and I think. that that's special I know that that's. important for a lot of kids um just to. have somebody in the middle of the day. to offer him a big smile you know that. goes a long way I think just in the. universe and um yeah thank you for. coming and spending time with us and. helping us reminisce a little bit about. what it was like to um to go to lunch. and have a lovely lady stand there and. uh and help us out help us get through. it so much thank you yeah and um thank. you so much for coming thank you for. having me now I'm just floating on the.

breeze and I feel I'm falling like these. leaves I must be. Cornerstone oh but when I reach that. ground I'll share this piece of my life. found I can feel it in my. bones but it's going to take. h.