So what was your first job?

[LadyoftheRabbits]

Did you like it? What'd you do? What was the worst moment?

[GreenTea]

1. Usher & Concession stand at a classic huge old movie theatre!

Loved it - One big party and the box offices girls were fun & hot!!!

The manager & assistant Manager were my buddies and it was an unbelievable two plus year party at that theatre in San Francisco.

:smoke: :party: :woohoo: :headbang:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

11. *grins*

Sounds like fun, GreenTea! :hi:

[izzybeans]

2. Lifeguard

Poor (relatively speaking) middle class kid at a country club. Like Caddy Shack with bikinis.

Best moment: Well I was a teenaged boy with a passion...

Worst moment: cleaning the old school filter pool. The backwash. I imagine it was very much like going to a Focus on the Family retreat. Swimming in buckets of yuck.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

6. Awesome answer...

"like Caddy Shack with bikinis"

:P

[femmocrat]

3. Movie theater concession stand worker.

Yes, I liked it a lot. Got to see all the movies, over and over! Worst moment was when the assistant manager grabbed me in the candy storage room and tried to kiss me!

[LadyoftheRabbits]

7. Whoa!

How old were you? How old was he? :wow:

[Whoa_Nelly]

4. El Taco E. Grant Rd., Tucson

Pre-Taco Bell era. Got food poisoning from the place one day. Drove myself home, but on the way stopped for gas. Was so out of it from being sick, I ran the side of my brand new VW camper up against the gas pump concrete/metal poles. WHat a mess.

I quit after that and got a job at the FedMart (now long gone) car wash on 22nd and Kolb. Much more fun at age 18.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

10. Ahh!

Terrible! :(

[ZombieNixon]

5. Chopping wood.

OK, it was a bit more than that, I guess..."city park cleanup and beautification" was the official job description. Yeah, I liked it. Got to work with friends. Could wear my CD player and rock out on the job, but going home every evening with wood resin in your pores was a bit of a downer. :)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

14. Sounds good!

Beats mine... I was office "wench"... you got to be in the great outdoors :P I snuck in my ipod every now and then when I did mail.

[ZombieNixon]

17. Office "wench"?

What did you work on, a pirate ship? :shrug:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

19. Ha!

I wish... nah, it's just what I called myself. Well... my friends coined the term, I think. :P

[ZombieNixon]

23. Arr...a pirate's life for me...

That would sweet, to be a pirate. :D

[LadyoftheRabbits]

26. Yeah!

I really envy Keira Knightley for getting to play her character in "Pirates." That stuff is EXACTLY what I want to do.

[ZombieNixon]

27. Carouse the high seas looking for lost treasure?

Or wear a push-up bra under men's clothes? :shrug: :P

[LadyoftheRabbits]

29. Well...

I've done one, want to do the other. :P

[ZombieNixon]

30. OK, I had to stop and think about that one for a minute.

:crazy:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

34. Well, I did too

Because I've gone deep sea fishing (which was AWESOME, I didn't get seasick), but I wasn't looking for treasure :(

[ZombieNixon]

38. Ooh, I once went fishing (for crabs) in the Chesapeake Bay

when I was living in Maryland. Not deep sea, but freakin' awesome nonetheless. :)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

53. Wow!

You lived in Maryland? Lucky :P Closest I got was almost going through the Chesapeake Bay Tunnel several times because my grandfather couldn't find his way out of Virginia Beach. :D It was literally the only time I thought he was gonna cry... or hurl himself off of a bridge.

[ZombieNixon]

75. Yeah, I was born there.

Lived there for ten years, then moved to NM, then to Chicago for college. There are times I still miss it, but I've been told it sucks there these days. :shrug:

[smtpgirl]

86. Live in MD, born, bred and still live in MD, sometimes

it sucks, just on how you see things in life. Lived in VA for 10 years, now VA sucks!!

Love seasonal change, and here where I am right now, secluded, quiet and weather is cool.

How's that for a life!!

[LadyoftheRabbits]

89. Yeah...

I miss the heat of the south where I was born, but that place, too, has its downsides.

[ZombieNixon]

90. What part of the south was that?

:shrug:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

92. The beautiful...

South Carolina (where I was born) and Mississippi... all college towns because of my dad :D

[ZombieNixon]

93. I don't know if you realize how much you've posted today.

You were at 540-something this morning and now you're already in the 700 Club! :scared: :wow:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

94. Oh I know!

I was thinking, "hey I've posted a crapload" and then I realized... the 700 club... :scared:

Help! 0.0

[ZombieNixon]

95. The only cure for this is...

another threadjack? :scared:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

96. Oh, hun...

We're already on our way :loveya:

[ZombieNixon]

97. The spirit is willing, but

the flesh is...spongey...and bruised....:rofl:

:loveya:



















(By "flesh" of course, I mean my fingers :hide:)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

98. My goodness...

:blush:




:loveya:

[ZombieNixon]

99. What? I've done a lot of typing today.

It's hard werk. :dunce:

:hug: :loveya:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

100. And look what you did!

100 posts! That's a first! :party:

[ZombieNixon]

101. Hooray!!

:bounce: Something I can take some credit for...that didn't involve anything broken...or flying shards of metal...or a garage full of wailing kittens...OK, so I've never done that last one. :D

[LadyoftheRabbits]

102. Good thing, too!

x( Though the others sound like great amusement! :evilgrin:

[ZombieNixon]

103. Yeah, I like kittens!

:D

And yes, I've had my shared of incidents involving broken things and flying metal. :o :scared: :D

[LadyoftheRabbits]

104. You like kittens?

(Wait for it... wait for it...) that is really cute :P

[ZombieNixon]

105. Well, kittens are cute.

Who says guys can't like "cute?" :P

[LadyoftheRabbits]

107. I guess you're right...

I just thought that the only time guys used it was when talking about women :P

[ZombieNixon]

109. That's a different kind of "cute."

And kittens don't get to be blessed with "hot" or "sexy." :D

[LadyoftheRabbits]

110. I would sure hope not...

:P

[ZombieNixon]

111. Me too.

Because that's creepy and potentially illegal. :scared:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

112. Agh!

Hey, btw, if your fingers are tired and all, or you're tired, don't feel obligated to talk to me :blush: I enjoy it quite a bit, but you know, I'd understand *bites lip*

[ZombieNixon]

113. No, I'm fine really.

I was a little tired after dinner, but that was over an hour ago and I've worked it off by now. Keep going. :)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

115. Keep going, huh?

:P Mmm k... well, where were we? *searches* Ah, kittens! So this does somethine for you?

[ZombieNixon]

117. Furballs!

:D

Cute. ;)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

118. Your turn...

:D

[ZombieNixon]

120. To do what?

:shrug:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

121. Ummm....

Good question :dunce: :shrug:

[ZombieNixon]

123. When in doubt, post cats.

:D

These are ours:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

124. *melts*

They're so cute! The first one is gorgeous, and the second reminds me of one I used to have, Casey... what are their names?

[ZombieNixon]

125. Peppercorn's the black and white one, Yoda's the tabby.

:)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

126. Yoda....

Perfect! My cat's going nuts right now... :crazy:

[ZombieNixon]

128. What's it doing?

:D

[LadyoftheRabbits]

130. She has this little ball in a circle thing...

And she's batting it like nuts then suddenly taking off and bolting upstairs like a bat out of hell. Here she is:

[ZombieNixon]

That is a bloody great picture!

:rofl:

What's her name?

[LadyoftheRabbits]

134. Gracie

:) She's a cutie... still a baby in many ways. She was rescued by my dad in Missouri and given to us :)

[ZombieNixon]

135. How long have you had her?

:shrug: :)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

138. We've had her about...

5 years, almost? Yeah... wow. My brain doesn't function, apparently. At any rate :P How old are yours?

[ZombieNixon]

140. Uhh...lessee...

Peppercorn is now 15...we got her shortly after I turned four. Yoda is...well, he just turned up on our doorstep in January of 2001. The vet said he was 2 when we took him in to get all cleaned up and such, but he used to hang out across the road and the guy who owns that house said he'd been around there for at least seven years, so we think he's somewhere between 7 and 12 now. The truth is anyone's guess and he still behaves like an overgrown kitten. :shrug:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

141. Cute...

:P I think I'm going to have a houseful of cats when I'm an old maid... sanitary conditions, of course, but you know the type :P

[ZombieNixon]

143. Well, as long as it's clean,

the ASPCA can't haul you away. :P :D

[LadyoftheRabbits]

144. Good grief, Zombie...

We've gone and done it again... :P

[ZombieNixon]

145. Yes indeed.

:D Perhaps breaking the same record twice in one night. :shrug: :D

[LadyoftheRabbits]

146. Perhaps...

But holy crap I should get a shower... work in 9 hours :( Farewell, fellow record breaker-helper-person... :crazy:


Yeah, I need sleep.

[ZombieNixon]

147. Yeah, g'night!

:hi: :hug: :loveya:

[smtpgirl]

78. Crabbing is cool!!

Just get a net with some chicken necks or backs tied to a string and hang out at the pier, wait 'till the crab takes the bait and catch him with a net.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

82. Oh I looove crabbing...

Tried to do some this year, but the dock was broken :( We had great bait, too.

[ZombieNixon]

84. I knew there was a verb for it!

:rofl:

I've lived in the desert too long. x(

[LadyoftheRabbits]

87. Heheh...

:hug:

[sakabatou]

8. File-person

Putting away and organizing files. I didn't really like it. Booooooorrrriiinng.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

16. Hey, me too!

It was terribly dull... :(

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. McDonald's and it sucked. My mom was an asst manager there

so we HAD to work there when we turned sixteen...with the icky old blue and white striped polyester uniforms that made everyone look pear shaped. My worst moment? I stayed up too late the night before and got drunk (for the very first time) on fuzzy navels and beer...and Becky the bitch (manager) tried to make me change the orange juice and I was super hung over, having gotten only about 3 hours of sleep and...well, and... i got sick. :puke:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

18. Oh my god...

That's awful :wow: I can't imagine being hungover and smelling all that grease :puke:

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

12. Golf Caddie. First and only job

It's pretty nice if there's good weather, and it pays pretty well (don't need money yet though, so it isn't a big deal)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

20. I thought about...

Being a golf caddie. Nice to be outdoors! :hi:

[AngryAmish]

142. Me too

It paid for my college.

[Floogeldy]

I started working at an early age.

I think I wanted money for candy and toys. :blush:

Around 10 or 12, I started dragging the family lawnmower around the hood looking for overgrown lawns and ringing doorbells. $2 got the front and back mowed.

I also sold special-ordered, personalized, printed Christmas cards door to door. This was before people had printers in their homes. ;)

:wow:

[Whoa_Nelly]

22. Well, then...guess I get to claim my newspaper delivery job age 10

Delivering the Brainerd Daily Dispatch around the north shore of Gull Lake, MN :D


...oh..and all those baby-sitting jobs...would make about$30-40 a week and spend it all at Shepard Mall.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

28. Hehe....

Oh yes... it is so tempting to spend my money... :evilgrin: I never got into babysitting though, even though people told me how much money it made. I didn't think I was good with kids, being an only child. :shrug:

[Floogeldy]

35. Oh, I didn't even get that far.

I threw papers, too. My buddies and I would meet at 3:00 a.m. and get into all kinds of mischief. We stole chocolate milk delivered by the milkman. We went to the back door of the local donut shop and got glazed donuts fresh out of the fryer. We stole outdoor Christmas lights just to throw the bulbs into the street and hear them explode. We smoked cigarettes.

Yet, the papers always got delivered on time - - - sometimes through the front porch window. ;) I think I had a paper route through junior high.

I also worked as a carhop at age 13.

What the fuck was I thinking?

At age 15, I started getting paid to play guitar with my band. The rest is really scary. I'll tell you about it someday. B-)

[Whoa_Nelly]

48. well, well...

Sure do hope to hear more from you about you some day

[LadyoftheRabbits]

24. That's awesome!

The Christmas card thing sounds cool... wish I could do that now. :D

[Floogeldy]

37. It was a more innocent time.

Wish you were there. :(

[LadyoftheRabbits]

43. You know,

Hearing my parents and grandparents talk, I wish I had been too. :hug:

[greatauntoftriplets]

13. Assistant in a dental school library.

My aunt worked for the dental school and got me the job. It involved typing, shelving books and magazines correctly, and working the circulation desk. No AC in the place and since it was a summer job, we closed real early on hot days.

Not a bad gig and they had a neat fiction section from which I borrowed regularly.

Unfortunately, the head librarian was total nutcase. And I spent only a single summer there.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

21. Sounds like a good job!

Though the AC not being there would suck :P And the librarian. It's awful when someone you work with is insane.

[greatauntoftriplets]

32. There were many downsides about....

but as a first job, not bad.

The head librarian had an identical twin sister who was a schizophrenic. The head librarian's mood swings were frightening. But there were lots of cute guys around! Way too old for me, of course.

[RetroLounge]

15. Dishwasher @ Ponderosa

Sucked ass...

RL

[LadyoftheRabbits]

25. Oooh...

Sounds like it :(

[RetroLounge]

31. lied about my age to work there for $2.30 an hour

while in high school.

Quit and became a stockboy at Minnesota Fabrics. That was an ok job. Lots of females to look at :D

RL

[LadyoftheRabbits]

36. *laughs*

Always a good thing... well, guys for me :P

[lost-in-nj]

33. Bradlees

A dept. store that has gone out of business.
Worked in domestics, lingerie and Auto :silly:
We used to sell spark plugs and oil filters etc.
These macho guys would come up and ask for a part and I would help them.
They all wanted a guy! Even though everything was in a book. Just tell me the make and model of your car and I
would get the friggen part!
Oh yeah I HATED inventory.



lost

[LadyoftheRabbits]

41. Geez...

Of COURSE they wanted a guy, like a woman doesn't know what she's doing. :eyes:

:hi:

[jpgray]

39. I ground lenses to fit glasses frames

Nice work for high school. :patriot:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

44. Wow!

Pretty cool! :D

[koneko]

40. Summer camp counselor

It was at a horseback riding camp that I'd attended as a camper for years. I got paid and got my own private lessons after work for free, but didn't consider it work. I guess I was lucky in that respect. I loved everything about it. No worst moments.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

46. Awesome!

I'd love to have that kind of job... I love horses :loveya:

[koneko]

58. That's why it wasn't work to me

Horses are beautiful animals.

[lost-in-nj]

59. Do you mind

if I ask you where you did this?
We have a horse in Morris County and they have a summer camp also



Thanks


lost

[koneko]

76. Don't mind at all

I grew up near Cape Cod - the camp was in Southeast MA.

I'm a recent NJ transplant - once I get settled, I'll be looking for a stable.

You're so lucky to have a horse. What breed?

[lost-in-nj]

88. He's a 7 yr old

Quarter horse. Sorrel
Quite a temperament. We have been training him for the trail behind the stable.
He just does not want to work.... :)
But I'm in love
We have him at Karl Bauer training center in Pequannock right on Rt. 23.
Great barn a mix of western and english. We ride western.



lost

[koneko]

91. Quarter horses are so beautiful

All horses are beautiful, but I do love quarter horses. The horse I showed through camp was part quarter, part morgan, but had the best temperament, surprisingly, considering the mix.

Horses are definitely a labor of love. . .

[GOPisEvil]

42. Bagging groceries.

Worked for tips only. Made good money. Working in the rain sucked. A lot. Bad tippers were the worst though. x(

[LadyoftheRabbits]

47. Ugh... rain and rude people...

But it's good you made decent money :hi:

[GOPisEvil]

52. General's and Colonel's wives were the worst on average.

The enlisted men's wives were the best. Those folks know about workin' for a livin'. Hell, some of the guys I worked with were moonlighting enlisted men.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

60. Yeah...

I've found that those who are true working class are kindest to me where I work. Wealthier people are in a hurry, want it now, and can't understand why they have to wait :eyes:

[BrotherBuzz]

45. My first paycheck job was at the local paper

I was fourteen year old and I tied newspaper bundles papers with jute twine. Jeeze louis time flew and I sweated a ton to keep up with the flow, but it was fun. Not a career job, but I can still tie that knot in my sleep. I think I made a dollar thirty-seven an hour - good wages back in those days!

[LadyoftheRabbits]

49. That sounds pretty cool!

:hi:

[BrotherBuzz]

81. It was cool and my supervisor was Charlie Deal, town idiot and...

world famous pantented toilet seat guitar maker (U.S. Patent Number 214,695 Granted in 1969).




One of his masterpieces is hanging on the wall behind Huey Lewis on the 'Sports' album photographed in the 2am Club, my old hangout in downtown Mill Valley.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

83. Whoa!

That is sweet! :D

[RFKHumphreyObama]

50. Working in the office of a Member of Parliament

He actually allowed me to write a report on bus safety and I also helped out with some of his constituency duties. I was only 15

[LadyoftheRabbits]

55. Whoa!!!

That is so amazing! *sighs*

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

51. I slung Mr. Mistys at the El Dorado, Kansas Dairy Queen

Aged 15. Worst moments were when young baseball teams came in. Best moments were when there were no customers and we made mini Peanut Buster Parfaits for ourselves (shhh...don't tell!)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

56. Mmmm....

Yeah, I couldn't work there. They'd have nothing to sell. :9

[GardeningGal]

54. Uhmmm, babysitter.

That was my first job - two summers for the same child in the next block over from mine. Then after that, it was as a "courtesy clerk" at a grocery store. (Another name for the person that sacks the groceries and takes them to the car.)

I was okay with both of those jobs.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

57. Sounds good!

:hi:

[graywarrior]

61. Coat check girl.

I got to hate perfume doing that job.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

63. Ugh, I'd imagine...

:puke:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

62. Movie theater ticket taker/concession stand worker.

:puke:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

64. Urgh...

:(

[Starbucks Anarchist]

70. Know what the worst part was?

When I was taking tickets, there was a row of five TVs directly above me which aired the same five preview trailers FOR EIGHT HOURS.

:scared:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

74. Ahh!!!

How ungodly AWFUL. I'd go stir-crazy. :crazy:

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

65. Bat Boy

for a minor league baseball team

[LadyoftheRabbits]

66. Sounds cool! But...

Are you sure it wasn't this?


I couldn't resist...

[baldguy]

67. I was the Bean Boy in a Japanese restaurant.

It was the kind of place where they cook the meal at the table in front of you. After the chef was done, I cooked some bean sprouts for the customers and cleaned the cook top.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

68. Wow... sounds unique!

:hi:

[Roon]

69. Working at Skipper's seafood

We were a brand new store and we trained and trained. The final day before we opened to the public, we were allowed to invite our families to come and eat for free!!! I'll never forget my dad attacking the salad bar!!

The worst part was there were too many chiefs and not enough indians, I hated that. But we pulled through. :-)

Skippers is long gone from the state these days,(colorado) the only thing we have close to being like skippers is Long John Silvers/

[LadyoftheRabbits]

72. I'm glad yours went well!

:hi: My dad worked at Long John Silvers and HATED it... he still talks about coming home covered in grease :puke: :P

[Roon]

79. I was 16 at the time

And I actually felt a little embarrassed working for them. I'll never forget the smell of a skipper's.

[Blue-Jay]

71. $10 to the favorite charity of the first person who says...

"blow".

[smtpgirl]

73. Worked at Roy Rogers, a Marriott fast-food

place. Would you like a holster of fries with that? Worked for $2.30 an hour.

Home if the Double-R Bar Burger. A burger with ham & cheese. Their roast beef sandwiches were to die for, all meat, and juicy too!!

Kind of like Fast Times at Ridgemont High

My big step up was the Capital Centre in Largo, MD. I was a jr. in high school 1977 and made $7.35 an hour. I was union, boy did I smoke alot of pot then!!

Got to see concers for free, get backstage passes, and I had friends that worked cleaning the stands, and we would have free drugs for a month.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

77. I think I've vaguely heard of that place...

:hi:

[spacelady]

80. comb cleaner & hair sweeper, age twelve, small town salon.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

85. Cool!

:hi:

[Jamastiene]

106. Dog grooming.

I thought, "Oh, how sweet. You get to play with cute critters all day." boy, was I wrong. I had a slave driver for a boss and there was not much time to play with the pooches. I was too busy picking ticks, brushin mats out, and cleaning anal glands. The glands were very unpleasant at first because they stink and you never know where that stuff will shoot.

The worst was a tie between dealing my hateful slavedriving boss and that time when I cleaned the anal glands on a dog and it shot across my shirt first thing in the morning and I had to stand there cold and wet and smell it all day.

The best was when a cocker spaniel dropped a giant stinky pile into my boss' smock pocket where she kept her precious money. I didn't tell her. I let her jam her long fake fundy freeper fingernails into it later. Revenge was sweet. I'd like to relive that sweet moment again just for kicks.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

108. Oh my lord...

I thought that at first too, that that would be fun. Anal gland cleaning? :puke: But that revenge... stuff of legend :D

[Jamastiene]

114. She had been on me and one me all day long

with her "All you need is the right man. That'll straighten you out." and "You aren't gay. You are just confused." I had already hosed her with the garden hose in the sink used to wash the dogs and pissed her off. I knew the handful of poopy money would be sweet to watch, so I just got quiet, but not too quiet and waited. It was so hard not to bust out laughing BEFORE she jammed her hand down in her pocket. :evilgrin: :rofl:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

116. Sooo cool...

*sigh* If only I could have such revenge on some people :P

[Jamastiene]

119. It is the only revenge I ever got in my life.

And I must say, revenge is addictive. If only I could perfect my revenge-getting skills, I'd be ecstatic.

[trackfan]

122. Delivering Flyers

Worst part was getting told off by people.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

127. Oh, I'd imagine...

I'm pretty scared when it comes to doing stuff like that, precisely for that reason :scared:

[deadparrot]

129. Wendy's. Awful, awful, awful.

Disgusting food, horrible people. They were incredibly short-staffed, so I would work five days a week (including 10-7 shifts on both Saturdays and Sundays with only one 15-minute break). I was also a high school student at the time, and hitting some growing pains, so after those nine-hour shifts, I'd usually lay on my bed and sob.

Needless to say, that job only lasted the spring and summer of my junior year.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

131. Good grief...

Sounds horrible! :(

[Critters2]

132. I checked membership cards at the YMCA

My brother and sister were both working in the fast food industry--one at DQ/Brazier, the other at Hardee's. They'd come home stinking of grease, take a shower and start on homework at like 11 pm. Me, I took my homework to work with me, and sat at my desk doin' it.

"May I see your card, please"? "Thank you, go on in." And occasionally, "This card is expired. I can let you in tonight, but I need to keep your card and you'll have to call the office to renew it. Have a nice evening."

Barely qualified as a job! But they did pay me.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

136. Awesome...

:D

[Critters2]

139. Yep, I've been pretty skilled in the "avoiding real work" area. nt

[dropkickpa]

133. Paying taxes type job?

Graveyard shift (11pm - 7am) at Mister Donut @ 16 (yeah, the guy that owned the place was a creep, an orthodontist with the world's worst halitosis). My best friend was the baker, I was the finisher/counter person. The owner was too cheap to pay $200 to fix the AC that summer, so it got to be aroun 120-130 degrees in the back. Me and T would play dough baseball withthe glazing rods (they probably didn't find all the dough-balls all over the kitchen until the place was torn down). We also spent lots of time in the back room smokin' pot :smoke: . Our friends would come in and drop off beer for us in exchange for free donuts, and we gave the cops free donuts and coffee because the owner was too cheap to get surveillance cameras or an alarm (and he had 2 16 year old kids, 1 guy 1 girl there alone all night). The owner also locked up the coffee stirrers in his office because he was convinced we were stealing them :eyes:

I jumped for joy when that place was torn down.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

137. Wow...

Sounds very interesting :D

[Rhiannon12866]

148. Cinderella.

I'm not kidding. This was at a local amusement park, a big employer in my neck of the woods, and most kids around here got their first job there. They hired me because I'm blonde, fitting the Disney version of Cinderella, but it was hardly glamorous, standing out in the hot summer sun in a long dress, and riding around in a pumpkin coach with some kid who was kicking and screaming.x(

As for taking a break, forget it, since I was always Cinderella, I couldn't even run to the bathroom without somebody stopping me, wanting to take my pic with their kid. But I only had to do this for two summers, out of the six summers that I worked there, while I was in school. I graduated to driving the train, which ran through the "jungle." This had its own problems, since it often broke down, but I took a lot of pride in keeping it going. I loved my train, LOL! And my equally blonde friend, who took my place as Cinderella, used to ask our boss why I couldn't do it and he'd tell her that I had put in my time...:D

[Shine]

149. Babysitting for the neighbor kids as a 12 yr old.

One of the worst moment was when I looked/snooped in the parent's bedroom and happened across a polaroid pix of the naked mom doing obscene things with a banana. :evilgin: I kid you not. Ewwww!! The image was burned into my pre-pubescent and innocent little brain and I haven't been the same since.

:D

[alittlelark]

150. Taco Bell (Taco Hell)

A cook dropped a 10 lb pan of cooked meat on the floor, and they 'saved' 7-8 lbs of it. I quit the next day.