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thought I was going to get in trouble when they found out what I was doing, especially when you see all of these guys with machine guns running in your direction, but it ended up that they all thought it was funny . . . so we did it again.
    At that point, Santino and I put our heads together and came up with the idea that we should act like I got arrested. So they handcuffed me and dragged me out like they were arresting me for lighting the dynamite. We actually walked through the backstage area with me in handcuffs, and I just kept my head down, like, “Damn, what have I gotten myself into.” Nobody knew what to think. They all thought I got arrested by the Mexican police, which is definitely not something you ever want to do.
    Miz gets Down to Basics
    Ted DiBiase
    You need to be strong-willed and mentally tough for this life on the road or it will catch up with you. You need to eat right and train and you’re away from your family, so if you don’t love sports entertainment, if you’re not passionate about it, there’s no way you can do it. But the fans are amazing, and they make all of the travel and everything that goes along with it totally worth it. It’s tougher than people think because we’re not just traveling on Mondays and one Sunday a month. We’re traveling from town to town, and we’re not driven, we drive ourselves. We have to find hotel rooms, we live out of a suitcase, and you see the world out of a window. It’s hard, but it’s worth it. It’s especially worth it when we’re all together in the same hotel and something happens that just makes you laugh harder than you could ever expect.
    I remember this one night we were all in France. We were all sitting down eating inside the hotel at the restaurant after the show, and it was late. It was the last night of our tour, and we were all just hanging out and talking. When it’s our last night of a long tour like this, we don’t usually sleep that night because then you can just sleep easier on the plane the next day. So most of us were down in the restaurant along with Hornswoggle. He’s a funny guy as it is, but he was ready to cause some trouble that night. He’s asking everyone, “Where is The Miz?” We were all looking for The Miz, but The Miz had already gone to bed. So Hornswoggle leans over to me and he’s like, “Teddy, we need to go find The Miz and wake him up. We need to do something to him.” We didn’t know what we wanted to do, but one thing we knew, we already had stolen the key to his room from earlier in the night. So we go up to his room, and Hornswoggle was carrying this giant bottle of water. I was actually just there to protect the little guy in case The Miz tried to kill him. I was his bodyguard.
    So we go up there, and all the lights were out. Hornswoggle sneaks into his room, and while The Miz was sound asleep, he dumps the entire bottle of water over The Miz’s bed. Miz jumps out of bed, Hornswoggle starts to run out of the room, I’m running behind him, and Miz is running after us, and he chucks this bottle of water at us as we race down the hall. But what’s funny is, The Miz is running down the hall and all he’s wearing is his underwear, and I swear, we all stop at the same time and hear the door behind him go click . So now Miz has been woken up, he’s just had water poured all over him, and he’s locked out of his hotel room half naked. Hornswoggle and I then head down to the hotel lobby and tell all the boys to gather around and watch what’s about to happen, as the only way Miz could get back in his room was to go up to the woman at the front desk . . . we weren’t going to do it for him.
    So The Miz walks down, and while he’s trying to figure out what to do soaking wet and half naked, we realize that we still have the key to his room. I tell Hornswoggle that I’ll stall The Miz while he goes back up to his room and finishes the job. Miz was a pretty good sport about it, walking off the elevator