Jeff Grant

And so we sit, she sits down and for the next two hours, she folded herself over in a, in a, in like this fetal position and cried for two hours.

We couldn't even talk.

She just cried for two hours.

And at the end of about two hours, she looked up at me and,

And the first words out of her mouth to me, other than, you know, the initial, the first words out of her mouth, she looked at me and she said to me, I hear everybody likes the cheeseburgers from the vending machines.

Big ass burger.

Oh, that's right.

Right.

So, so, and, and, and we didn't even know that there's like a protocol, you know, you know, it's a protocol.

I mean, she knew to bring the change in the bag, but, but it's like, if you don't heat the burger the right way or put it or stick the chicken wings up the right way and it's frozen in the middle, you get yelled at.

People are looking at you like you're crazy.

And so she's heating up these cheeseburgers because they don't let the inmates anywhere near the vending machines or near the microwave.

And she's sobbing and we're sitting there eating these cheeseburgers.

And to me, it's the greatest thing in the world because I've been in at that point like six weeks.

And she's trying to choke down the cheeseburgers.

But it wasn't right.

But I had a lot of friends visit me from AA and my kids visited me every month.

And I had no idea how much everybody was suffering on the outside.

You know, I was oblivious to it.

But when I did get out, I started to volunteer first at the rehab that I'd gone to.