Worked the NE Glisan St Starbucks (Portland, OR) in the late 90s. When I started, I was 'warned' that Tonya Harding and her mother lived in the neighbourhood and were regulars - as well as being regular freak shows.
They typically arrived via Tonya's vehicle (lol, a massively lifted diesel truck that actually had a triple-step to get into the cab..which was funny as she was about 5' tall. The women at the store called it her "Penis Mobile") and would always make a massive affair of just getting into the store. The first time I met them, I was asked by the mother if she was allowed to tip (obviously they could and obviously she knew she could because the staff had also warned me about this). I mentioned she could, and she asked if a check was acceptable. No, not really, but from Tonya Harding's mom? Sure. Whatever. She makes this big production out of pulling out the checkbook, talking about some art she was going to buy, and 10 minutes fucking later - she hands me a check..with a massive .50 cent tip on it. WTF? We got one of those a week like clock-work.
Fast forward towards the end of summer and Tonya is, yet again, outside with her two packs of marlboro light cigarettes on her table with her grande coffee. Her little game, that was tolerated by the manager, was to just randomly grab a staff member and make them sit with her at her table while she talked at them...About life, about her competitions (I think this was the summer she was doing some big compete in Brazil?), etc.
For the first and only time, it randomly came to be my day with her. I go outside, sit - and she lights up a smoke and asks if she can share her tale of woe with me. After I agree (of course!) she proceeds to tell me how broken hearted and devastated she is because her father has joined a Satanic cult (wtf?). I ask her what she means..and she lays out the full sob story. Despite all of the money she's given her father, the guidance, the house she bought him - he's an ungrateful wretch that took advantage of her, and then got taken advantage of by this cult. It all came a head, she goes on to say, when she decides to go to her father's house and directly confront him and the cult leader about their wicked ways and how "jesus" was on her side. So - we're at the point in her story where she goes to the house...when the Satanic Cult Leader, himself, opens the door. She said a prayer, then crossed the threshold into the house. At that point, lol, Tonya says reality changed - everything slowed down - and she heard the Devil himself (speak through the cult leader's own mouth), "I HAVE YOUR FATHER, TONYA! HE'S MINE!"
LOL. The best part is that she actually changed her voice to sound like the Devil. Definitely nice and throaty and hilarious. Meanwhile, tears start to drip from her eyes as she finishes up the story..which ends with her father supposedly disappearing forever.
tl;dr - Tonya Fucking Harding and her penis-mobile made my work environment NSFW by being a needy freak show.