Ron White

I went broke living in Seattle.

I had a guy who turned out to be a professional con artist, and he swindled me out of some money.

He was very disappointed when he got my bank account.

He thought it was more of a high roller.

But I worked during the day selling memory seminars.

And then at night, I took a job as a waiter at a restaurant.

I was waiting tables.

I said yes to this company in Nevada, in Reno.

I'll speak at your conference.

They said, buy your plane ticket.

And I'm like, why do I tell them?

If I tell them I don't have enough money to buy a plane ticket, they're not going to have me speak.

They're going to think nobody's paying me to speak, which nobody was.

And so I said, I got to figure this out.

So I emailed them back and I said, you know what?

I got family halfway through there.

So I'm just going to drive and I'm going to stop and see my family, you know, on the way.

And you could tell they were like, that's the long drive, dude.

That's the craziest I'd ever heard.

But they said, that's fine.