Think You Got Problems? Talk To HoustonSoReal

I almost never post on Saturdays but I just read HoustonSoReal's account of his misadventure related to a Devin the Dude concert in Vancouver that makes my problems look so very small that I simply must pass it on.

It's not the kind of tale from which I can readily excerpt in a meaningful way so please just check it out if you're interested in con artists posing as event promoters, the same mixing cocaine and steroids and the potential brand disaster of getting wrapped up (very accidentally, in this case) with folks who use heavily.

For my own part, I just want to make it clear that I will not knowingly work with or associate with cokeheads.  If you want to lose your business, you go right ahead and join the party.  I've seen too many great restaurants and great clubs ruined by cokehead management to be impressed by your ability to score.

Most of you probably don't need to be told such tales to know what's up.  But if you're going, "why's he talking about coke on a business blog?", then I would strongly suggest you read Matt's story.

Every time I hear a tale like this, I'm reminded of a coked out fool I met at a New Year's party.  He had just come down to North Carolina from someplace up North and was getting ready to scout out a location for a restaurant that he was being paid to manage in Greensboro, where I was living at the time.

He immediately starts peppering me with questions and he needed to know the busiest intersections and the hotspots and the this and the that and I just looked at him and said, "sorry bro, I can't help you there".  I'll never forget that idiot and the fact that whoever was funding him had better have need of a tax writeoff, because that was clearly his best case scenario.

Comments

[Rizoh]

It's a shame what people would do for money. Glad Matt made it through safely.

[Clyde Smith]

I am too, he's an interesting character! I mean that in a good way.