Great reminisces about summer jobs during college. I'm longer in the tooth than you but mine included a summer working for City of Chicago on a garbage truck -- great camaraderie there, with a Vietnam vet and a 50+ year old lifer (who started at 7 am by getting a half pint of Seagram's 7) as well as a couple of summers working upstairs in the steamy Kimball Candy Company making industrial scale batches of coconut macaroons (where the recipe included "two 100 lb bags of coconut"). I could fill up the chute faster than the machine below processed the candy, so I would hide from the foreman up among the pallets of coconut to take a short snooze.
Thank you, John. I'm a big fan of the USPS. One moment while I sing the praises of our local Wheeling IL post office. You may not think so, but every visit is a pleasure due to the kindness and professionalism of the employees. Also, I'm making a one person effort to save the first class mail 💌 📬 by sending hand written letters, you know, like a 21st century Jane Austen, LOL.
Not a comment on the USPS, which is quite amazing to me, too, but a comment on the Author's Clock you want Santa to bring. I asked Santa, by way of one of my daughters, for that very clock last Christmas. I love it! No matter when I happen to check the time during the day, rarely do I read the same quote. I fantasize about reading each book for the exact time quoted. The best quote, should you not keep it charged, is the last.
My grandfather was a mail carrier for about 25 years, from when he came back from WWII until 1970. He knew everyone on his route and they gave him gifts at Christmas, like a bottle of whiskey.
This seems obvious but you’ve seen Chris Ware’s 250 Years of Delivering?
I've seen it online. It's, unsurprisingly, cool. It makes me wish I was more into stamp collecting.
Great reminisces about summer jobs during college. I'm longer in the tooth than you but mine included a summer working for City of Chicago on a garbage truck -- great camaraderie there, with a Vietnam vet and a 50+ year old lifer (who started at 7 am by getting a half pint of Seagram's 7) as well as a couple of summers working upstairs in the steamy Kimball Candy Company making industrial scale batches of coconut macaroons (where the recipe included "two 100 lb bags of coconut"). I could fill up the chute faster than the machine below processed the candy, so I would hide from the foreman up among the pallets of coconut to take a short snooze.
Thank you, John. I'm a big fan of the USPS. One moment while I sing the praises of our local Wheeling IL post office. You may not think so, but every visit is a pleasure due to the kindness and professionalism of the employees. Also, I'm making a one person effort to save the first class mail 💌 📬 by sending hand written letters, you know, like a 21st century Jane Austen, LOL.
Not a comment on the USPS, which is quite amazing to me, too, but a comment on the Author's Clock you want Santa to bring. I asked Santa, by way of one of my daughters, for that very clock last Christmas. I love it! No matter when I happen to check the time during the day, rarely do I read the same quote. I fantasize about reading each book for the exact time quoted. The best quote, should you not keep it charged, is the last.
My grandfather was a mail carrier for about 25 years, from when he came back from WWII until 1970. He knew everyone on his route and they gave him gifts at Christmas, like a bottle of whiskey.