from Alameda

[continued from yesterday]

I remember that my favorite manager at Burger King got arrested for embezzlement. I read about it in the Alameda Journal.

I remember when my cross-country coach drove through and I gave him a bunch of extra free food even though I had no authority to do so.

I remember getting in trouble with one of my bosses because he had called my house to see if I could come in to cover for someone who had called in sick. The only problem was that I had already told my parents that I was going to work so I could go hang out with my girlfriend (I was indefinitely grounded in my high school years).

Pretty soon it was time to graduate from high school somehow. I had done as little as possible to get there, but I still got to go to Disneyland for “Grad Night.” I requested time off from work for that weekend. To be honest, I don’t know if they declined my request or if I took too long to come back, but when I went in to pick up my next paycheck they told me I had been “terminated” and needed to bring my uniform back before I could have my check. I’m pretty sure this was the maddest I had ever been in my life up to that point, but now I thank God they fired me because otherwise I’d probably still be working there all these 30 years later.

THE END