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Worked at a “Full Service” gas station in Calumet City, IL while in high school in 1970-71 timeframe. We pumped gas, washed windows and checked under the hood. Gas was $.29 nine and there was actually “gas wars” between competing stations in town. When the hot girls would drive in for gas, we would fight over who would get to clean the windshield. Always a good vantage point from that view.
After working there for a few months I was doing oil changes, tire repair and other minor mechanical work. Good times….
 
My first job basically doesn't exist anymore. I worked at a book/magazine store. I started when I was 13 and made $3.35 an hour in cash. If I got hungry I could order Domino's for an hour's wage. I worked nights during the week and basically got paid to do my homework. I kept that job through high school except during the summers when I worked for an asphalt paving and concrete company. I always had gas and beer money.
 
First job stocking shelves and running the cash register (no calculator to make change - had to use your brain) at a local Rexall drug store. Started on my 16th birthday. Worked there until I graduated from high school. Started at 80¢/hr (I think). Then drive in teller at a bank through college (weekends and summer break). Had a VW bug in high school and yep fill it up for about 3 bucks.
 
First job stocking shelves and running the cash register (no calculator to make change - had to use your brain) at a local Rexall drug store. Started on my 16th birthday. Worked there until I graduated from high school. Started at 80¢/hr (I think). Then drive in teller at a bank through college (weekends and summer break). Had a VW bug in high school and yep fill it up for about 3 bucks.
My parents had a feed store out of our house when I was a kid. I was nine or ten when they first opened opened it up.
We only had a cash box for the first several years. I learned how to count change really well. It's funny with almost everyone these days, if paying cash, I'll give them enough to get like a 5 and change instead of four ones and change.
It completely confuses them. That was my first job, my pay was a roof over my head, and food in my belly.
 
It's funny with almost everyone these days, if paying cash, I'll give them enough to get like a 5 and change instead of four ones and change.
It completely confuses them.
I did the same thing today. I figured the girl would get confused but she did good. My food order was $10.76-ish so I gave her $21 so I would get a $10 instead of a 5 and 4 1's but she got it
 
...(no calculator to make change - had to use your brain)...
...I learned how to count change really well...
Counting change. Now there's a lost art! I was at our usual weekend hamburger joint, and watched in amazement as the young man/new hire had to ponder for quite a while just to figure out what combination of coin he needed to give back to me, even though I handed him a twenty, and the machine told him how much I should get back. "Let's see; $4.16 Um, a dime. No, wait..."
 
Speaking of throwing stones...I remember when I was quite small throwing stones at the drivers window on one of Dad's dump trucks. I finally hit it, it shattered. When my Dad spotted the window he asked if I knew anything about how it got broke...I told him Dolly did it, Dolly was our horse.

It all made sense to me at the time, I wasn't trying to break the window, I was just trying to hit it, just like throwing stones at the dinosaur on the gas pump globe. As for Dolly, she was just a horse, they'd probably do things like that, how's a horse supposed to know that it's not OK to break a window. My Dad laughed when he heard my explanation, he didn't spank me so I was sure he believed me, and I wondered what he'd do to poor Dolly.

Just think that same boy today, with that imagination, some unique logic....that kid could say something that results in his pecker chopped off and be wearing a dress, confused forever after wondering what even happened. It's dangerous times to be a kid.:eek:

....what happened to that horse?....you did have steaks after that incident right? :eek:
 
I did the same thing today. I figured the girl would get confused but she did good. My food order was $10.76-ish so I gave her $21 so I would get a $10 instead of a 5 and 4 1's but she got it
Ahh, counting change. The bookstore had an old fashion mechanical cash register. Had to count change in my head and still can. I also had to take any shortages in the cash register out of my pay. I paid myself out of the register after every shift. The good ole days.
 
My first job was delivering the local newspaper. There was a little clip on the mailbox and we would put it in the clip. I got paid a penny and a half per paper, 156 papers every Wednesday.

My next job was at the local 76 gas station. that was about 1974 and I think gas was $.40 or $.49 a gallon.

After I graduated from high school, I worked one summer at the school bus garage. I believe that summer I hand sanded eight school buses.
 
Yeah my first 'job was delivering sunday papers. Started at 3:00AM. Had to stuff all the ads inside the papers then load them up and deliver them by car. Started when I was 14 so my mother had to drive me but did this until I was 17 so as soon as I got my license I was driving. Made about $125/week at this job. When I turned 16 and got my license I started delivering a free paper to the paper boys so I would drop bundles. Their money was in an envelope inside the bundles so there were a few that would take the cash then throw the bundles over the hill. I was responsible for hiring and firing delivery boys. Imagine a 16 year old pulling up beside a little boy and saying 'come here little boy'...lol. Did this on Wednesdays and Fridays and made $75/week. After these jobs was the one I mentioned above at the Ford dealership.
 
We are lucky we live along the Can/US border and can easily visit. Prices for boat gas hover around the $2.40/litre ($9.07/US gal) in the Canadian Thousand Islands
So…. called a couple marinas on the US side and found the prices ranging from $5.09-4.49.
A quick trip over and back … uplifted 142 gallons (536 ltr).Taking into account the exchange rate for the CDN $….I saved about $426!!!
Between the weather and the price of gas, the river traffic has been dead so far this year on the Canadian side.
 
We no longer have fuel in our pool so can't get it without going many miles either way through the locks. EPA shut down the only pump so now we have no choice but to fuel up from the dock using 5 gallon cans. Even the big guys with 40' boats have to fill up from plastic cans. All cause the EPA shut it down
 
We no longer have fuel in our pool so can't get it without going many miles either way through the locks. EPA shut down the only pump so now we have no choice but to fuel up from the dock using 5 gallon cans. Even the big guys with 40' boats have to fill up from plastic cans. All cause the EPA shut it down
Holy crap
 
We no longer have fuel in our pool so can't get it without going many miles either way through the locks. EPA shut down the only pump so now we have no choice but to fuel up from the dock using 5 gallon cans. Even the big guys with 40' boats have to fill up from plastic cans. All cause the EPA shut it down
Just wait until some guys start jerry rigging 55 gallon drums to fill their tanks and then there is a spill. Way to go EPA.
 
It's not uncommon (or at least when I boated there 20 years ago) on the James river to pay a fuel truck to come to some ones home dock, 4-5 boats ready to go to fuel up. Cuts out the costs of the marina as well. Is that an option for you?
 
My first job was at Burger King $2.15/hr all my friends worked there it was a great time. The manager would pay us $10/hubcap from the Volkswagen dealership next door. That was big money back then….. just hilarious
 

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