Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Summer Jobs

Back in the mists of time, in your youth, did you have a summer job?



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  1. Inexplicable DeVice3:10 PM, July 12, 2017

    Why, yes! And you've posted a photo of my "summer job", too!

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    1. Inexplicable DeVice3:16 PM, July 12, 2017

      However, in the world outside my imagination, I used to work in a cafe on the cliff top here. In between clearing tables, serving customers, making cakes, preparing meals, cleaning, drinking gin & tonics (the owner actively encouraged this despite me being under-age), washing up, keeping the fishermen in coffee and fags (cigarettes, not me - although a couple of them were almost acceptable), I "danced" around the kitchen trying to avoid the lobsters that the fishermen brought us, and then gritted my teeth upon hearing them boil to death in a large pan (the lobsters, not the fishermen).

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    2. The Mistress5:47 PM, July 12, 2017

      MR. DeVICE: Did you ever sneak a sip of someone’s G&T?

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  2. Jon3:28 PM, July 12, 2017

    My ideal summer job would be in THAT youth. Jx

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    1. The Mistress5:48 PM, July 12, 2017

      JON: He appears to be looking for extra wood so you may stand a chance.

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  3. ayeM8y4:32 PM, July 12, 2017

    I was a summer day camp counselor who taught 6 year olds how to swim. Have you ever taught a bunch of 6 year olds how to swim?

    It's like putting cats into water... They all grab on with their claws and you all sink to the bottom of pool!

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    1. The Mistress5:49 PM, July 12, 2017

      AYEM8Y: I avoid 6-year-olds and all children of all ages at all costs.

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  4. Muscato10:23 AM, July 13, 2017

    I was a library page all the way through high school (so not strictly a summer gig). You'd be amazed at the things that go on in the stacks in a quiet suburban library.

    And for a couple of years I was a theatre apprentice. And I doubt anyone would be at all surprised at the goings-on at a small suburban summer theatre.

    One way or another, I got quite an education...

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    1. The Mistress7:27 PM, July 13, 2017

      MUSCATO: Which section of the Dewey Decimal system experiences the most action in the stacks?

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    2. Jon7:46 PM, July 13, 2017

      "177 Ethics of social relations", perhaps? Or maybe "302 Social interaction"...

      Jx

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    3. Muscato6:58 PM, July 14, 2017

      In our little library, it was the 900s. Something about biography and the social sciences must bring it out in the patrons. Well, that and that those shelves offered several tempting blind spots...

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    4. The Mistress8:51 AM, July 15, 2017

      MUSCATO: Blind spots? Yet I'm sure you had your eyes opened.

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  5. Mitzi 10:29 AM, July 13, 2017

    At 14 I had a summer job (weekends) in a fish and chip restaurant in Bridlington, not as glamorous as
    Mr Device's place, we didn't have lobsters, we had fly papers, oilcloth tablecloths, mismatched cruets and malt vinegar bottles on the tables. I started as a mucky cup collector cum washer upper, my own tears would fall into the suds as yet another tray of mucky pots was brought in for me. That old time music hall favourite would often pop into my head as I scrubbed away.
    After a couple of weeks I was promoted to taking orders after a member of staff had walked out in disgust because a customer had petted her on the bottom!I would have found that amusing. My favourite customers were Paul, Darren, Tommo and Mark the fairground workers in their early 20s as you can imagine were as rough as sandpaper. I remember serving them for the first time 'Hello darling, you're new, what do they call you then?' I giggled coquettishly sounding like a cascade of silver bells. It was 'oye puff' when they realised I was a lad, they soon learnt I wasn't as soft as I looked and 'oye puff' was quickly replaced with 'R'kid' which I found very endearing.
     
    My wage £2.50 an hour plus tips and all the chips I could eat. No wonder the owners of the establishment could afford to swan around in a B-reg fiat panda if that's all they were paying their staff.

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    1. The Mistress7:29 PM, July 13, 2017

      MITZI: Did you ever get used to your hair smelling of chip fat, day after day?

      How have I not heard that bawdy song in your link before? ♫She got sores upon her cunt♫
      Obviously, I’ve not frequented any British music halls.

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    2. Jon8:07 PM, July 13, 2017

      Ye Olde Music Hall has nothing on bawdy Rugby songs. Jx

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    3. The Mistress9:37 PM, July 13, 2017

      JON: ♫Her greasy twat
      Was always hot      ♫

      Catchy.

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    4. Mitzi 3:34 AM, July 14, 2017

      Only at the weekends. I became desensitised to the smell. On the bus going home, passengers would often sniff the air and say they can smell fish and chips. Very Coronation Street.

      'Naked color photographs of Liberace' I think I'm going to be sick.

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    5. The Mistress8:53 AM, July 15, 2017

      MITZI: Please refrain from regurgitating your chips.

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  6. Mistress Maddie4:56 PM, July 13, 2017

    Well it certainly wasn't pushing a wheelbarrow around naked. Yet.

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    1. The Mistress7:30 PM, July 13, 2017

      MISTRESS MADDIE: You’re still young. There’s still time.

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  7. normadesmond11:58 PM, July 13, 2017

    though i was not paid, i blew my well hung neighbor.
    hell, someone had to do it.

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  8. Anonymous2:44 PM, July 14, 2017

    Haulage firm. Dirt & diesel. Learned some interesting things.

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    1. The Mistress8:55 AM, July 15, 2017

      MAGO: "Dirt & Diesel" would be a good name for a gay magazine.

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  9. Ms Scarlet7:13 AM, July 16, 2017

    Good God, no! I was too busy being a swot and getting on with my projects.
    I feel I missed out, but there weren't any seaside cafes in the vicinity.... only a large supermarket and a dry cleaners.
    Sx

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    1. The Mistress11:24 AM, July 18, 2017

      MISS SCARLET: Trust us, you didn't miss a thing.

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  10. Damien8:15 PM, July 18, 2017

    Not during High School. But the year I left I was a stripper for a while! Did really well :)

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