[bob deluke]

During the summer after I graduated from H.S., worked at the local garden tool plant loading bundles of rakes and shovels in a rail car for $1.90 an hour. Zero benefits, hot hard work. You couldn’t believe how many rakes and shovels will fit in a rail car. Took all day to fill one car. Did that every day all summer long. My dad knew the foreman and I found out later in life he told Pete to give me a crappy job so I would go onto college and get a good education. Dad was a welder for 30+years. He knew what hard work was. Worst job ever.