Jeff Grant

So I would walk in the door and she was like this four foot 11 tall,

little um bundle of energy irish bundle of energy and she would come up to me and she would put her her face like right to my chest right here right and she would look up at me and she would say so and so is at table one so it so is at table four so and so and right she would give me the names yeah yeah and and of course everybody wants to talk to the owner you know i would walk around how you doing backslap everything else and this one particular night

She said, so-and-so's at this table and he's sitting there all alone and he's drinking.

And I think something may have happened.

So I go over to him and I put my hand on his shoulder.

How you doing?

And we knew each other casually.

You know, he'd been in the restaurant before.

He was a neighbor, but he had a big house on the water.

And he asked me if I want to sit down and have a drink with him.

And I said, sure.

And one thing led to another and we talked for three hours.

And at the end of those three hours,

He looked at me and he said to me, he had told me that his ex-general counsel for his company, and he was a real estate guy who had tens of thousands of units of residential real estate, very wealthy guy.

And he said that his old general counsel had just been arrested and taken away in handcuffs.

Now, this is like, hopefully that's a him problem and not an us problem.

This is the foreshadowing for everything else that plays out.

And so this guy who's a lunatic is sitting there in front of me.

He said to me, how'd you like to be my new general counsel?

And I said to him, I said to him, you don't even know me.