This past weekend my husband and I traveled to the Phoenix area to visit our son and his family. I have traveled extensively for my jobs over the years and business travel is pretty mundane. When I travel with my husband it is a whole different story but I think this past weekend takes the cake.
My husband works for a meat whole seller and at one point our son worked for the same company. If you want to know anything about meats and the best cuts these two guys have a wealth of knowledge. My husband has been working with beef for over 35 years. As a gift to our son my husband bought him a Brandt Beef Boneless Rib Eye – not just one steak but the entire Rib Eye that weight about 12 pounds. To
keep it fresh for the trip we froze it and then come Friday the day to travel it was wrapped in a towel and stuffed in a back pack as part of his carryon luggage. No this chunk of beef was cut into about 12 1”steaks when we got it to our son’s house for a BBQ on Saturday. Oh I wish I had been able to take a picture of the TSA agent that was looking at the x-ray when that backpack went through. He stopped looked and turned his head back and forth a couple of times and then called someone over and said I think we should do a bag check. He sat there looking at a huge chunk of raw meat in that x-ray image. “Bag Check”, “Whose bag is this?” and Kyle starts to explain that it is a rib eye roast. Sure enough they open the bag pull out this large piece of raw meat. Now the comments really start, “hey, what’s the address and what time is the BBQ?”, “maybe we should confiscate this,” said with a big smile. And the best one was the man running the x-ray, “I guess I need a piece of that to do a quality control check”. All the while this is going on we are actually running a little late and I’m trying not to miss our flight (it was my fault we were late).
So that was on the way down, on the way back he wore one of his PETA shirts. Now you might be asking yourself a guy in the meat industry wearing a PETA shirt, but let me explain. The front of the shirt say PETA in big bold letters, then below that is says, People Eating Tasty
Animals. There were probably six different complete strangers that stopped him and told him they really liked the shirt or wanted to see what was on the back. He has two of these shirts the one he had on gave the definition of a vegetarian: someone who couldn’t ride, hunt or fish. It sure makes for some interesting looks whenever he wears one of them.
Travel can be mundane, but thank you dear for making this trip interesting.
My husband works for a meat whole seller and at one point our son worked for the same company. If you want to know anything about meats and the best cuts these two guys have a wealth of knowledge. My husband has been working with beef for over 35 years. As a gift to our son my husband bought him a Brandt Beef Boneless Rib Eye – not just one steak but the entire Rib Eye that weight about 12 pounds. To
keep it fresh for the trip we froze it and then come Friday the day to travel it was wrapped in a towel and stuffed in a back pack as part of his carryon luggage. No this chunk of beef was cut into about 12 1”steaks when we got it to our son’s house for a BBQ on Saturday. Oh I wish I had been able to take a picture of the TSA agent that was looking at the x-ray when that backpack went through. He stopped looked and turned his head back and forth a couple of times and then called someone over and said I think we should do a bag check. He sat there looking at a huge chunk of raw meat in that x-ray image. “Bag Check”, “Whose bag is this?” and Kyle starts to explain that it is a rib eye roast. Sure enough they open the bag pull out this large piece of raw meat. Now the comments really start, “hey, what’s the address and what time is the BBQ?”, “maybe we should confiscate this,” said with a big smile. And the best one was the man running the x-ray, “I guess I need a piece of that to do a quality control check”. All the while this is going on we are actually running a little late and I’m trying not to miss our flight (it was my fault we were late).So that was on the way down, on the way back he wore one of his PETA shirts. Now you might be asking yourself a guy in the meat industry wearing a PETA shirt, but let me explain. The front of the shirt say PETA in big bold letters, then below that is says, People Eating Tasty
Animals. There were probably six different complete strangers that stopped him and told him they really liked the shirt or wanted to see what was on the back. He has two of these shirts the one he had on gave the definition of a vegetarian: someone who couldn’t ride, hunt or fish. It sure makes for some interesting looks whenever he wears one of them.Travel can be mundane, but thank you dear for making this trip interesting.
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