QotD: My First Gig

   

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    What was your very first job?  Before I tell you that story, I have to tell you this one: When I was a freshman in high school, I was a bit of a slacker and ended up failing. I went to summer school to make up the grades, but my folks wanted me to be in a better learning environment so they sent me away to boarding school. Since I'm the last of seven kids I think they just needed the break and sent me away so they could relax a little bit.

    Anyway, they sent me to this boarding school. An all boys boarding school. An all boys boarding school Catholic seminary. An all boys boarding school Catholic seminary in the middle of freakin' nowhere Ohio.  Now before you all start up about pervert priests I'm sorry to disappoint but there weren't any. In fact the only inappropriate thing that ever happened there was one of the male teachers was messing around with one of the students but that was after I graduated and an entirely different story.

    So where was I?  Oh yea, my particularly sheltered life getting a respectable college prep education at an all boys boarding school Catholic seminary in the middle of freakin' nowhere Ohio. Since this was a boarding school and in the middle of freakin' nowhere I couldn't get a job. In the summers my parents were so consumed with guilt for "sending me away for my own good" they paid me a handsome allowance so I didn't need to find work to get any pocket money. Once I graduated and lazed around for a month or so I started looking for my first job and boy was it a great one. A restaurant had just opened up about a half mile or so from my house (no car or license so walking distance was perfect) and they needed bussers so I applied. I met Grace and Phil Chen and managed to impress upon them I knew how to fill glasses and clear plates (last of seven kids so I had lots of table clearing practice) so they hired me. At this point I had no idea what kind of a place this was until Phil took me into the dining room and started showing me around. I was in heaven. It was JoAnn's Chili Bordello where they "Served 16 kinds of chili in an atmosphere of sin." I kid you not.

    So here I am, fresh out of the seminary and I'm working with waitresses dressed in corsets and stockings. 

JoAnnsWaitress

I had never been happier.  All my friends admired me, my parents thought it was pretty funny (although they never ate there), and I was surrounded by twenty of the hottest women I had ever seen. Because of my sheltered past they took me under their wing and taught me more about women that I could have picked up in 100 public high schools (notice I said women, not sex. I'm not that kind of boy). Some of my favorite times were when we'd go out after work and they'd sweet talk the bouncers into letting me in and then there I was, surrounded by women who would buy me drinks and mob me on the dance floor. The other guys in the club would just stare at us and wish they were me. :-)