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**LONG POST**
(Visit #1): This morning (7:46am), I walk into Leo's and ask the front counter girl if they had any "plain" pigs in the blanket. They cost $1.50 each/$4.25 for three nowadays (the photo is from July 2020). I had already looked in the display case and did not see any. She goes to the case and begins filling a container with "cheese" pigs in a blanket. I refer to the sign that shows "PLAIN / CHEESE / JALAPENO" and tell her that I want the "plain" ones. She looks confused and asks another person who says that more "plain" ones would be ready in 30 minutes. I tell her that is okay and that I would be back.
(The Phone Call): I call at 8:28am and speak with "Leo". Told him that I was there earlier and was wondering if they had any of the "plain" pigs in the blanket ready. He says they were ready when I was there before (?!?) - I let him know that the person at the counter said they did not have any when I was there. He said that they have them (now), and offered to hold three for me, so I gave him my name. I hear him call out to someone to hold three plain pigs in the blanket for me (he gave them my name while we are on the phone). I thanked him and said I was on my way.
(Visit #2 - same day): I get there in under 10 minutes. Same front counter girl. I let her know that I was there for some "plain" pigs in the blanket. And she says they do not have any. I tell her that I just got off the phone with Leo and he said that they had some and he was holding three for me. She goes to the back. While she is gone, the person who said that they were cooking more WHEN I WAS THERE THE FIRST TIME tells me that they have no "plain"! I let an f-bomb drop when I say, "You were the one who told me that you all were cooking more -- and I just got off the phone with Leo who said that he was holding some for me!" I'm flabbergasted and pissed because I am hungry as hell and have driven there TWICE at this point.
(Goes downhill quickly): So, now, here comes an older lady and Leo from the back. I explain what happened and point to the sign, and she argues that the sign does not say that they have "plain" -- all they have is cheese and jalapeno. (PLEASE REFER TO SIGN IN THE PIC) Then to add insult to injury, she says that "plain" was a special order and that I was supposed to order them because they take 30 minutes to make! I tell her it would have been nice to have been told that when I was here the first time because usually they make them and put them in the display case. We go back and forth about the sign and I'm like I can read, I did go to Rice University, and the sign says, "plain, cheese, and jalapeno" (because clearly, they feel as I have a lack of understanding and cannot comprehend why I am upset with having come back TWICE and having been lied to by Leo on the phone). She gets all mad and says, "Well we are uneducated...-- I cut her off and say, "You don't have to go to college to know how to read a sign!"
(Call the cops!): Leo (who never says a peep about the lie he told me) loses his temper and tells me to get out and that I was trespassing and threatened to call the cops. I told him that he needs to stop working (retire), called them all a bunch of idiots and left. What begins as a discussion of why it was so difficult for me to get some "plain" pigs in a blanket turns into the police being called? WTH?
(Calling it): Instead of admitting that they never made any more "plain" pigs in a blanket and that he lied on the phone about having them to begin with (or placing them on hold for me), Leo quickly pulls a card from the racist toolbox "let me call the police because you are trespassing" because as Jack Nicholson says, "He can't handle the truth!" You see, Leo is old and crotchety, so people just let him be the bigot that he is.
There are quite a few people of color who work at Leo's as cooks, dishwashers, etc. and I cannot help but notice that they are all super quiet, yet watchful. You know, like blacks were back in the 1940's and 50's? I get the distinct feeling that they really need their jobs, otherwise, they would not be there - because Leo is a piece of work.
(In closing): Leo, you need to retire immediately (if not sooner) -- and you and your staff needs to LEARN HOW TO READ!
