Hate to break it to you, but Shawn is notorious for going out of his way to avoid paying for a meal. Sitting down to eat with random knuckleheads who pick up bill would be right up his street.
Sure, I know that, but it wasn't just him, it was his older brother (a civilian) there also. And he was far from a dick or full of himself, he was very nice, the both of them, and he was just up onstage like an hour or so earlier. He literally won the overall at the Nationals the prior year and was in all the magazines. And he talked about stuff with us he certainly did not have to. The price of a meal was easily worth it, but it wasn't even my money, it was the money of these two New Jersey dudes we just met at the resturant also. They were themselves too intimidated to go up and ask Shawn to come over, and I said hell I'll do it.
I've seen standoffish, arrogant, self-centered high level bodybuilders plenty of times. Flex seemed like that, as did Gaspari (and why wouldn't they act like that, they are the elite of the elite).
That wasn't Shawn (or his brother), not that night.
