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The Days of Summers Past

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The first week I worked there I thought I was going to be fired every day. But at the end of the week, Ron gave me a raise: five cents an hour, from $1.25 an hour to $1.30. I was amazed and thrilled. I soon learned that his bark was far worse than his bite. Ron never fired anyone; he couldn't afford to. He started each summer with about 40 kids working for him; he ended up with about eight by Labor Day. Only the strong survived Variety Vending. I was one of the strong... three years in a row.


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Princess and I just got back from our summer vacation. Strange as it may seem, we spent part of our vacation in Cleveland, Ohio, where I grew up. We visited many of the "old haunts"; it brought back a flood of memories.

One of my first visits was to the municipal swimming pool, Thornton Park, in Shaker Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. I spent the better part of many summers there. No, I was not a life guard; I worked in the food service area... by choice. As I recall, the primary task of the life guards was to examine the feet of everyone who entered the pool area... looking for athlete's foot, I guess. Junior life guards spent the entire summer with their heads bent down, looking at feet. I could do without that, thank you.

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