4. Q&A: Fast N’ Loud’s Richard Rawlings (Sept. 2013)
“I was a police officer, firefighter, and paramedic before I was 21. My dad taught me that you get a good job that has good benefits. You spend your time, you get a gold watch, and you retire. I was actually a Miller Lite delivery guy. I am delivering beer at a bar one time, and this—I hate to use the word ‘drunk’—this guy who was always at the bar said, ‘Son, what are you going to do with your life?’ I said, ‘Sir, I want to be a police officer.’ He said, ‘Well, why aren’t you? You’re delivering beer!’ I was 19 years old. I told him you have to have a city that is willing to put you through the police academy and all this other stuff. I’ll leave the name of the city out, but he goes, ‘Dammit, I’m the mayor of so-and-so city!’ Two and a half weeks later, I was in the police academy.”
