High school jobs

[Flynbyu]

When I worked at the grocery store, we had a guy that was coming in stealing batteries. He would come back in with them to return them for cash. This guy was 5'7'' ish, 110lbs, nasty beard, thick glasses, and wore those black biker boots with the buckle on the side. He had this nasty flannel shirt on, and looked like he hadn't showered in weeks. We busted him out, and ask him to come into the office. The guy pulls a knife. He's higher than a sprayed roach, and never says a word. We surround him, and walk him out of the store and try to stall him until the police arrive. He's got the knife in hand, and is constantly turning and lunging trying to get us to let him out of the circle we had surrounded him in. He gets to the road, and lunges at a this old man that worked in the dairy dept.. He lets him through, and the guy jumps this ditch and goes over a barbed wire fence.

The police finally arrive, and we are in this field in waist high weeds. The wind starts to lightly blow, so the weeds are moving, and it looks like the guy is crawling around. The sun is setting, and the police were on the scene in the field with us looking for this guy. Our manager yells "C'mon guys, let's get back to the store." As he was walking backwards hollering at us, he trips over the guy. He jumps up and says "Holy shit! There he is!"  The police grab the guy. He's unresponsive, and has passed out. They drag him through briars, and pull him through a barbed wire fence. They drop him in the ditch, and drop him once on the concrete. This guy is bleeding, and covered in briars.

Two weeks later, my manager and I have to go to court. The guy had 70+ previous convictions on piddly shit....Public intox, shoplifting, possession charges, etc, and makes bail. He's a no show in court. A bench warrant was issued, and  I never heard what happened to the guy after that.

~Brian

[Mad Dog]

I had some summer jobs too in that time period; I used to bale hay as a side job, spent one summer as a lawnmower/trailer washer at an RV dealership, another summer clearing some land and building a house, and finally one summer as a mason tender.  I've never worked that hard in my life before or since the summer as a mason tender, and I don't want to.

[Krandall]

Plenty of side jobs too I forgot to mention..

Rock picking.... that sucks...  follow a tractor/wagon in a field and pick up rocks bigger than the size of an orange.

Pumpkin planting/picking.... My neighbor hand planted his field for I don't remember how many years. My bro, myself, and Vern Burny planting sucked.. But come picking time.. Many late nights going over @ 10-11pm.. to load a huge trailer full of pumpkins so they could go out to sell the next morning.

[Flynbyu]

There are a lot of spinach fields in our area, and many of us would go "chomp greens". This act basically ruins a pair of shoes and jeans. Spinach is loaded into a huge trailer with an open top. You have to walk around on top of it to compress the layers to add more.....It took forever. Many late nights on a load of greens stomping around for some extra money when I was younger. Totally sucked.

~Brian

[vern burny]

Krandall, we have picked way to many pumpkins.  I spent many days and nights in the pumpkin patch. Probably the best part was finding a pumpkin that was filled with mice.  We would throw it up in the air, it would shatter on the ground and mice would run everywhere.  The old farm dog "Daisy" would chase everyone and try to eat them.

I also worked for a small company called T&L Nifty products.  I did quality control and repair on the cooking products they sold.  Pallets of of wire cooking racks and this thing the called the turkey lifter would come in from Taiwan and we would test every weld.  If we found a bad one we would fix it with parts from another bad one.  It seemed like the longest eight hours ever, I couldn't wait for the end of the day.

[fire raptor]

I worked at the Huntington Yacht club at night. We surfed all day at HB Pier and at night we bussed tables and worked the kitchen. We saved all the left over half eaten steaks and lobster. We also had a gallon jug that we dumped all the unfinished drinks in. When we got off work we recooked the steak and lobster and washed it down with this horrible but free gallon of deadly mixture of martinis, beer ,vodka well you get the picture. Life was good.And cheap.

[Segkast]

I worked at a bead store. Yeah... a bead store .... I know...

[Peelz]

I worked at a bead store. Yeah... a bead store .... I know...

anal beads?   

[Segkast]

www.shipwreckbeads.com

HAHA, knock it all you want, but the owner of the place has a 15 ft. TV in his Theatre in his house....

[Krandall]

www.shipwreckbeads.com

HAHA, knock it all you want, but the owner of the place has a 15 ft. TV in his Theatre in his house....

So you're a hippie....

[Segkast]

No, definately no Hippy. But I'll out smoke one