My first job

Stop and Shop, North Haven, Connecticut. Summers of 1982 and 83. My grampa knew the store manager, Carmen Gaetano (God knows why I remember that name). I got my orange smock, and set to work collecting carriages and bagging groceries. Those summers were HOT...one week I had to help the Produce team by shoveling rotting garbage into a dumpster...EW. I also manned the bottle-and can-return counter, just as the state's recycling program was getting off the ground. Recyclables were supposed to be washed out; I remember arguing with shoppers and refusing returns caked with food, cigarettes, and assorted filth.

I was slightly-built in high school; some of the bigger stock boys would pick on me...one of them gave me the nickname "Muscles" lol. But all in all, it was an OK part-time gig. Sometimes I'd get a buck tip for carrying groceries to some lady's car. There was a Carvel's at the end of the parking lot, where I'd get chocolate ice cream in waffle cones on my breaks. To this day, I'm an awesome grocery bagger, and get REALLY annoyed when I'm standing in a long line and a shopper waits for the cashier to bag everything, arms folded. Even worse, barking instructions as to what items go in which bags. Lazy.
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