FACT: Neal Pollack’s very first job was as a busboy at Red Lion’s La Posada, in a luxury resort in Paradise Valley, Arizona. He was fired for telling a customer that after the customer finished their meal, he was going to go into the back and eat the leftovers.

[This has been a Neal Pollack Fact of the Day. For yesterday’s NPFOTD, click here. Mr. Pollack will read from and talk about his new book at Chop Suey on Thursday, Feb 1, with special guests Dan Savage, Sean Nelson, and “Awesome.”]