What Was Your 1st Job - Any Stories

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31. Other than cutting grass, I too began in a grocery store-- A&P at 16 years old. I remember the join Union speech.

The shop steward was a big, burly butcher. He called all us young new hires into the back room. Looked at us and said, "You will be joining the union," as he threw a meat cleaver 10 yards into the wooden outside door to the meat locker. All us young folks simply said, "Where do we sign."

There was also the time I caught my finger slamming the door of an elderly lady's Cadillac. I was bleeding all over the place, as she fumble through her coin purse before giving me a penny tip. "Yes, mam, thank you and I hope you have a wonderful day."