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a lot of people don’t recognize Rey without the mask, and at the time I was so new, I could pretty much walk around unnoticed. But me and Rey would always do this thing where, right in front of the cashier, we’d bump into each other and we’d get into it like we were about to fight. Like, “Hey man, watch where you’re going!” “No, you watch where you’re going!” We would get to the point where we’d be real loud and animated, and we did it just to get a rise out of the cashiers. The cashier would always be like, “Please, guys, calm down. Please don’t fight in here. Just calm down.” We’ve done it so many times, and I swear, it’s the funniest thing ever when these cashiers think a fight is about to break out in their store.
    The best was one time, Rey said something and I was like, “Fine, we’ll see . . . I’ll get you!” So I walk out of the store and hop in the van we rented. Then when Rey walked out the front door, we sped the van in front of the store, slammed on the brakes, threw the door open, and snatched Rey into the van before speeding off. We looked back and the cashier was freaking out like you couldn’t believe. He thought we just kidnapped one of his customers. I don’t know if he ever called the cops or what. All I know is it was funny as hell.
    The Kidnapper
    Rey Mysterio
    What’s funny about this story is, as soon as we’d bump into each other, we’d start arguing and we’d really work the whole scene good, raising our voices louder and louder the more we got into it. “Hey, watch where you’re walking!” I’d say. Then Shelton would snap at me, “Screw you!”
    “No, screw you, man!” I’d shout back. Shelton would walk away, and I’d turn to the cashier and be like, “Man, what a jerk. This guy is walking around like he owns the store. You just can’t treat people like that.” And the cashier would always be on my side, like, “You’re right. You can’t treat people like that.” We would go into it with words for so long, like at least five minutes, and that’s a long time to argue in a convenience store in the middle of the night. And you could tell the cashier would be getting more and more freaked out, and then we’d do the big finish by taking it outside. The clerk never knew if he should call the cops or what.
    The ultimate was when Shelton pulled up in the van, grabbed me, and threw me in like he was kidnapping me. We were laughing our asses off inside the van. We actually pulled this stunt about six or seven times, and it never got old. Sometimes we would even do it at a convenience store near an arena, so there would be a lot of fans hanging out there, and they would start to look at us like stuff was about to go down between Shelton and me for real. Everyone would be looking at us in shock like we really hated each other. Those were good times.
     
Two
Road Warriors
    “So not only did we just take a four-foot drop in our rental car, but now we’re locked in this speaker store’s parking lot.”
    —JACK SWAGGER
    Think your back aches after a tough day on the job? Can’t wait to get out of rush-hour traffic just so you can get home and relax? Now think about driving three hundred miles to a show, getting suplexed a few times by a four-hundred-pound opponent, then cramming back into a small rental car with three or four other muscle-bound men as you drive three hundred miles more to the next show. Now do that over two hundred days a year. “The travel we do can be brutal at times,” Randy Orton tells me. “You figure a normal family goes on vacation across the country and back over a week, and that takes everything out of them to the point they almost need a vacation from their vacation. And they might only do that once a year. We live out of a suitcase. We live out of hotels and rental cars where three-hundred-mile drives are the norm. I’m around these guys more than I’m around my wife and my child. It’s tough. We’re a close-knit