Ollie Gates did enough for me when I learned that I could take his barbecue sauce home. But it seems that the man who inspired Tech N9ne to name an entire album after him -- The Ollie Gates Mixed Plate -- isn't done dispensing knowledge.
The Northeast News has a nice story about Gates returning to Gladstone Elementary School earlier this week for a checkers tournament. And while he was there, the owner of Gates Bar-B-Q gave some life advice we should all follow.
Gates accepted an invitation to the checkers tournament from a first-grade class, which learned that his favorite game is checkers when he went to their school last December as
part of an ongoing school project about local heroes. And it was then that he explained why checkers isn't over when the game ends:
"Playing checkers is one of my favorite games. The reason we play checkers is so we'll have an idea of the next move in life," Gates said. "So, take checkers and attribute that to life and say, 'I know the next move if I move this way.' Look at the next move, so the second move will be to your advantage."My first move will be pulling into the parking lot of Gates today. My second move? Eating Ollie Gates' barbecue.
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