I wonder what we all did as our first paid summer jobs. My first summer job was working in the fields rented by truck farmers from my granny.

All the teenagers in the area loaded watermelon into trucks all summer. It miserably hot and exhausting work, but so much fun. We ate watermelon and danced to rock and roll from the truck radios during lunch hours. After work we went swimming in the river. We were as strong as horses and as brown as toast by summers end.

Later I worked as a secretary in a tile shop and at a five and ten cent store ("five and ten cent store", boy is that a flash back)
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