The first Friday of training the whole class went to grab a few drinks at a local bar/restaurant in Indy. Coincidentally enough, it was the Friday of the Brickyard 400. When one of the waitresses asked what we were all doing there, me and a buddy just told her we were a pit crew for Nascar. We had a guy in our class who looked like he could pass for a Jeff Gordon type driver and told her "He's the backup driver for Jimmy Johnson, he might be sick so he'll get to race!"
The best part was all the waitresses going up to him to get his autograph in the little books they write your order down in...