Hello kids, this is Risk!

The show where people tell true stories they never thought they'd dare to share.

I'm Kevin Allison and every Thursday we release these special episodes that we're calling

classic risk singles.

Each of these episodes features just one story from our earlier years.

If you're new to Risk, you should know that the podcast can be very uncensored.

This week, a story that was first shared on the podcast last holiday season, this is

Brendan J Sullivan, with a story we call, a very transit strike Christmas.

So I call my mom and in the middle of her telling me how excited she is for Christmas,

I know I'm about to break her heart by telling her, I can't come home this Christmas.

I just got a job and because of that, guess who stuck, working Christmas.

I was 22 years old, moved to New York City, I wanted to be a writer, but the only job I

could get was in this one restaurant.

They had a terrible uniform and it was like 45 minutes each way in the commute.

The restaurant was failing, we were making like no money at the time.

So it was crazy to be in New York City among all these wealthy people, we're literally

staring at Trump Tower from where we are.

Now the only thing I liked about this restaurant was the hostess.

I worked on the bar where no one ever came and she stood directly across from me.

She had big beautiful curly hair and she was from this big Jamaican family way out in

Karnarcy at the end of the L train.

I remember the only thing I really said to her at this point was, hey I really like your

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