Week three underway

It's officially culinary school.  Day one of week three, and we finally had a student say they were absent because they got arrested. 

"I was in jail.  Sorry chef." 
Chef Porter says "Don't they give you one email?"

Kitchen no-shows due to arrest are pretty common, at least where I've cooked before.  I'm trying to remember this one guy's name but it escapes me.  He was real quiet, sometimes prone to rage, like physically hold back from the front of the house rage.  He was a prep cook mainly but did have line skills.  Totally spacing on his name.  He was a huge drunk and was always disappearing due to PIs downtown, sometimes fights too.

Got so every time he didn't show up for a shift someone started passing the hat so we could go bail him out before the dinner rush kicked off.  Other times he'd vanish and we'd go out to the smoking table behind the restaurant and find him snoring in a fetal position, have to wake his butt up because we needed to soak black beans and he needed to inspect the case for small rocks first.

He wasn't the only drunk, not by a long shot.  (I've blacked out behind the line more than once, we all did.  One minute you're on the line, next minute you're waking up at home and it's a new day.)  He stands out because he was a sweet guy, and very police interaction-prone.  No idea why.

Anyway, this guy in my class, the cavalier way he said he was in jail, we're totally talking either a PI or fighting while sauced.  That's just how it goes.