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[Motor City Sonics]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

 

Then I invested in some of those thin work gloves for instances like that.  Prevents the 'paper cut' things that happens.

I worked at Honeybaked Ham for about 3 years in the 80s.   Mostly a very easy, laid-back job.  You can get a lot of studying done most of the year (or get really good at foil-ball floor broom hockey), but the holidays,  oh my word.  Hired a lot of extra help and it was like an assembly line, but you get rotated around to different duties.  Cutting hams in half,  glazing the hams with the torches, taking them from the torching rings to the wrappers, and then wrapping them in foil.  Seems like that wrapping job would be easy?  It was the worst.  Speed was everything and the runner would put the ham on a flattened foil sheet and you need to wrap that puppy up in 10 - 15 seconds so nobody is standing there with a molten ham in their hands.    First time I did that wrapping part, I did not wear gloves to get a better grip.   Probably at least a dozen paper cuts (on each hand), but made with foil   So painful.    Then I am showing my co-workers how many cuts I had and a guy named Dan Zammet walked by with liquid cleanser and squirted a bunch in my hands.   I liked Dan, he was funny, but I will never forgive him for that.  If I ever see him again (haven't since the mid 90s), he knows that'll be the first thing I bring up. 

 

 I don't see much of anyone anymore.  I don't drink anymore and I have severed a few friendships because of their politics and I don't like leaving the house.  With the ear damage I am a bit scared of going to concerts because I don't want to damage my good ear.    I just want to chill at home with my dog and my Tigers games. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Motor City Sonics