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Past us further left for a distance were tall gray metal shelves with a wide isle down the middle, holding various finished products and materials for production which weren't there when I started but were put in some months later.
In that first year there were a few major events. Think it was about two maybe three months of working there when the boss fell down dead in front of his desk. Had a heart attack.
Then there was the Cuban Missile Crisis, we're all going to die, in which I and the two woman who worked across the isle from me who did the postage and checked content against the inventory sheet,
followed minute by minute the Russian ships approaching Cuba.
We got a new boss after a month or two. He was a retired navy officer who had ulcers from drinking coffee all day. John sat up next to the boss doing his calculations. The new boss and John did not get along. One day a huge fight broke out and John screamed curses at the boss for about five minutes and then quit and stomped out. It seems he spent most of his time on unemployment, and to do that you need to be not working.
So from then on I had to take the train, a half-mile walk to the Song Lake train station and about the same from the Libertyville station to the factory. I worked that job for about a year. I drank a lot of Coke and Pepsi from the machines and smoked a lot of cigarettes.
So from then on I had to take the train, a half-mile walk to the Song Lake train station and about the same from the Libertyville station to the factory. I worked that job for about a year. I drank a lot of Coke and Pepsi from the machines and smoked a lot of cigarettes. The train home from Libertyville, stops Grayslake, Round Lake Park,
Round Lake proper, then Song Lake was the same time everyday, and thus the same conductor who asked to see tickets. I usually got a window of plush green like-velvet seat, and never looked at the conductor, but wore a mean and surly countenance and he did not for a number of months ask for a ticket until finally one day he did and I looked up with a sheepish smile sweetheart that I was, and from then on I had to pay.
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