Good morning!!!!

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all, 41 this morning going to 48 with gradual clearing. Going to take it easy today, at least that is the plan. Not used to heavy lifting, except the boy, and my body is telling me about it. Got to take Bo for his beauty appointment. He is a Norwegian Elkhound and has more hair on him than 3 normal dogs. Wife seems to think that dog hair on the carpet is a bad thing so off to the groomer. :laughing:

Drew, how is your mouth, praying. Your post popped up after I wrote this.

Texas guys, the grocery store I worked in was not that colorful. The only excitement we had was shooting rats under the store in the feed store with an old .22 and rat shot. If things were kinda busy we only shot if we could kill 2 with one shot, and we still shot a lot.

Have a great day. Ed

 

[toppop52]

I worked at a gas station on RT 17 just south of of the VA line in the late 60’s ss. We sold cigarettes from an old bookmobile, on a typical Sunday we would sell 7000-10000 cartons at $2, $2.10 and $2.25. Sold $700 worth to a guy in a Renault 10 once. There some stories to tell about the characters from NY/NJ that showed up to buy cases in vans.
Cool today, 30’s going to around 50.

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 30° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 47° with mostly sunny skies. Need take wife too 2 doctor appointments today. Got Trak-Vac hooked up to lawnmower yesterday. Decided to make sure everything worked. Ended up with 2 loads of wet leaves. Put it back in barn. Wait for trees to decide to drop rest of their leaves. Got out the weather station. Everything works with monitor. But not smartphone. I need to read the instructions better. Need to come up with a place to mount wind and rain sensor. No work on speed reducer yesterday. Bearings did arrive. If we get back from doctors early enough hope to put BBQ's away for winter.
Eric, them wild west stories can keep you occupied for days.
Drew, hope the tooth is getting better.
PJ, hope wife's hand is healing fast.
Don, good job story.
Good Morning All.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! Yep, that grocery store job was my first hourly job after paper routes and mowing yards. But even that job got to be a grind. You put groceries on the shelf they take them off - repeat, repeat, repeat. We had a bottle house in the back for all the returnable (5 cents) glass soda water bottles that we sold in the 6 pac and 12 pac. We also had a metal sliding door incinerator to burn all the boxes. The aerosol cans really made a loud bang and sent fire out of the chimney. Throwing the florescent tube lightbulbs up high and into the dumpster was also entertaining. A bunch of the customers ran up tabs and then paid them off bi-weekly or monthly at the courtesy booth.

Thrall do you remember the name of the lady in the courtesy booth?

57˚ heading to 77˚ Southerly wind. No freeze for the next 10 days in the forecast.

 

[txdon]

One more last store story:

I was working there part time - I don't think I ever quit I just worked less and less - it was my second job after I got my real job.

One day my wife got a call at work from a neighbor that our house front door was open and there was a stereo in the driveway. My wife went home and the police were there - our house was in shambles and burglarized. My few bottles of liquor were drunk and even the bathroom space heater was missing.
She called the grocery store where I was working that day and the new girl in the courtesy booth did not know I was working and said I wasn't there. When the police found out I could not be located and not at work like I said I would be I became a both a possible victim or a suspect and they questioned my wife about any "problems we might be having".

It finally got straighten out after my wife called the store several times and told them the story someone finally found me.

(The stereo on the driveway was not mine, mine was much better so they took mine and left the cheap stereo, which the police took to their evidence room. They were never caught. I did not have replacement insurance and the ins. co. really deducted. As soon as I got the check I had to return it to pay for the next years premium. I was learning who really was ripping me off.)

 

[txdon]

Present day Grocery stores.

Indiscreet Drive-throughs.

Do you have them in your grocery store parking lot? We have them in our Brookshire Bros Grocery stores.

They are a little temporary buildings in the grocery store parking lot with a drive-through. They only sell alcohol and tobacco products. You can satisfy your legal addiction without being eyed by your neighbors in the regular store. How convenient.

 

[ronjhall]

Present day Grocery stores.

Indiscreet Drive-throughs.

Do you have them in your grocery store parking lot? We have them in our Brookshire Bros Grocery stores.

They are a little temporary buildings in the grocery store parking lot with a drive-through. They only sell alcohol and tobacco products. You can satisfy your legal addiction without being eyed by your neighbors in the regular store. How convenient.

Nothing like that in my area of MI. But OH has small drive thru stores. That sell just about anything you may need for drinks and other grocery items.

 

[Thall303]

Good morning! Yep, that grocery store job was my first hourly job after paper routes and mowing yards. But even that job got to be a grind. You put groceries on the shelf they take them off - repeat, repeat, repeat. We had a bottle house in the back for all the returnable (5 cents) glass soda water bottles that we sold in the 6 pac and 12 pac. We also had a metal sliding door incinerator to burn all the boxes. The aerosol cans really made a loud bang and sent fire out of the chimney. Throwing the florescent tube lightbulbs up high and into the dumpster was also entertaining. A bunch of the customers ran up tabs and then paid them off bi-weekly or monthly at the courtesy booth.

Thrall do you remember the name of the lady in the courtesy booth?

57˚ heading to 77˚ Southerly wind. No freeze for the next 10 days in the forecast.

I never knew the employee, I do know they had instructions from Gary to never open the locked door if confronted with a robbery...even if they had a hostage!

Gary had a small office next door where I did business with him.

 

[wngsprd]

Present day Grocery stores.

Indiscreet Drive-throughs.

Do you have them in your grocery store parking lot? We have them in our Brookshire Bros Grocery stores.

They are a little temporary buildings in the grocery store parking lot with a drive-through. They only sell alcohol and tobacco products. You can satisfy your legal addiction without being eyed by your neighbors in the regular store. How convenient.

None around here. Only state ABC stores can sell liquor...grocery stores sell beer and wine, though. Cigarettes are strict in how sold and locked up like Ft Knox in many stores (although our state tax is one of the lowest in the nation - maybe only Kentucky less).

 

[PJSprog]

32°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 55° today. Expecting some rain overnight tonight, possible thunderstorms.

Most of the small mom-n-pop grocery stores around our area were run out of business long ago by bigger regional chains and eventually WallyWorld. There is one still hanging on in Highland, and other than a few Mexican stores in various towns, that's about it. We have an old IGA in Trenton, but even several of the locally franchised Super Valu stores folded earlier this year, too. The grocery market is definitely in a major state of change.

Ron, Breese is just about 8 miles east of us on US-50. Youngest stepson went to school there (based on his father's address), and I used to play at a giant club there back in the '80s called The Speakeasy, which was across from the old drive-in theater. If you ever get down this way again, let me know. Maybe we can meet for some pie and coffee at PJ's Diner (not mine, by the way).

And thanks for the well-wishes for Mrs. Smith. She's doing fine. Her biggest challenge seems to be keeping it sealed enough to keep debris out while she's working around the house. She burned a bunch of cardboard yesterday, and said she had to figure a way to use a rake on the ashes without the use of one thumb. Not surprisingly, it's not slowing her down much.