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Well, it's John and Joe time again. And, um, here we are. Here we are, uh, looking at a screen, which a bunch of stuff on it we've never seen before, but that's the way it is in podcasting. You never know, uh, what's gonna happen. But anyhow, um, Joe, we've got some interesting things to talk about at the end of our podcast because we had. A meeting yesterday, and this is a church meeting, a church meeting. And one of our friends attendees had a story to tell that's, uh, she said we could share it. Person will be nameless. But you've gotta listen to this whole podcast, uh, to get what we're doing. So here we go. We thought we would talk about jobs that we've had and we have had a lot, a lot of jobs, and, um. You know, we're not young people, so we've been working, um, Joe's been working longer than I have'cause she's a hard worker. Uh, so we'll start. Just went to, I went to work early. She did. So I'm going to start, uh, with my jobs, um, I guess outta college or No, not outta college. Well, in college I was in college for a year and a half and, uh, didn't do very good because I. I ended up going to the Air Force and, uh, not finishing, but I saw well and good because I got good jobs and good careers afterwards. But my first job was riding a trolley bus. Now most of you don't know what a trolley bus is, but uh, it's a bus with wheels and, uh, electric connection to wires above. Uh, I was interviewing people to find out what they did, where they were going, so maybe they wanted to. Reroute the bus route. I dunno how good they were thinking because when they reroute it, they would also have to move the trolley wires. So, uh, that was not my problem. Another job I had in school was, uh, a model. Now I was a sought after, sought after model for the art class, I made 50 cents an hour and, uh, posed, um. With clothes on for the art class. And, uh, you, you may see my picture somewhere in some museum, uh, when you're looking at art and you'll say, oh, look, that looks like John when he was, uh, how old? 18. 18 years old. Okay. 18. 18. Yeah. I think I was 18. No, I was 17. I was just a kid. Uh, then during that time I also was a shoe salesman. I sold shoes for Pizz Department Store in Birmingham, Alabama. Now, pizz is a seven story building that was built in the early 19 hundreds and was one of the fancy stores along with Lovemans in Birmingham. Uh, I worked in the basement, so I had to start somewhere and I, I. Tied shoes together when people wore, tried'em on and broke'em apart. And I also graduated to be able to go to the stock room and get shoes out of a box and, uh, let people try'em on. I did that for a couple years and I told the manager, Mr. Lipchitz, I said, shoes are my life. So, and they were for a while, every time I needed$5. I would call him up and say, can I come to work this weekend? And he would say, yes, come to work. Was he afraid you were gonna go to college and not come back to work? He was exactly. He was afraid I was gonna go to college and not come back to work and not be his number one shoe tire. And this was not an easy job because you had to match up shoes that were all over the place. And, uh, you know, I always try get the right sizes together. Uh, hopefully sometimes if somebody got a nine and a nine and a half and somebody else got a nine and a nine and a half. So I hope, hope they were happy. Then after that, went to St. Louis and I worked for the Magic Shift Stove company. I thought I was going into a management job, but uh, when they assigned me my job. I lasted half a day and at lunchtime I didn't come back and they sent me a check for four hours, which was gracious of it. Many of you have magic shifts, stoves. Uh, I moved tops and sides around to make a stove. That was my job. I. Then I went to work for Rollins Baseball. You know, if you watch baseball, you watch the pitcher's gloves, you'll always see Rollins. Uh, I worked there a couple years, started out in the basement. Putting Matt in catcher's mitts was, was not a good job because it was very sticky. I worked my way up to, uh, working on a punch press, punching out gloves outta leather. So, uh, my biggest joy there was waiting for the food truck to come so I can. Go eat lunch.'cause I already ate my lunch that I took with me, uh, early, early in the day. Uh, then what did I do? Then I went to the Air Force and spent four years in the Air Force, got out and immediately went to work for a McDonald Aircraft Corporation because it was big in St. Louis. And I worked on, um, uh, one oh ones F1 oh ones Air Force and Navy F four H, and then. My mother was sick and she had to transfer somewhere with a better climate. I said, why don't we go to Denver? I've been there in the Air Force and I got, I went to the FAA at the airport in St. Louis, and I said, I want to go to, uh, Denver. Get a job at the FAA. They said Now, okay. Uh, what are your qualifications? And I told'em a little bit about what I've done. Filled out an application, got an extra five points on my test for being in the military. Got a telegram one day and they said, if offered, would you accept a job with the FAA at Denver, at staple an airfield? And I said, yes, I would. So I did. Worked there a couple years and then, uh. So on adding in a paper for RCA service company. Went to work for RCA service company 15 years. I worked in, uh, Denver. Transferred to California, transferred to Chicago. Uh, very good job, very good company. I learned a lot about management and, uh, profit and loss statements and all that stuff that goes with it. Uh, then in Chicago, one day I was in the office, I got a phone call from a company that I knew called Dale and they said, John, you wanna come to work for us? And I said, I don't know. And it was a, a holiday and I went into the office to work and I said. What do you got? And they said, how about coming over and being a sales engineer? Whoa, boy. So I said, okay. They said, what do you want for a salary? And I said, uh, well, you know, I don't know. I kind of thought about it. Took my salary I was making, had a company car, which I wouldn't have knew I had to buy. And added, uh, you know, a little bit of percent on there and. Went to work for XL, worked for them for two years. Very good company, privately owned company was, ended up being sold. And then I worked for Siemens another 15 years with Siemens. And uh, you all know the story there. That's where Joe and I met. But, uh, after Joan and I met, she insisted that I get jobs to stay out of her hair and I'll just, after he retired. After I retired, so I had a few jobs. Uh, worked for Peapod, which was, uh, groceries online, which was way ahead of what we're doing now. I sold real estate. I worked for Walmart, uh, demoing, uh, computers. I worked for enterprise rental car. I sold golf carts and Aiken. I worked for the county and the assessor's office and, uh, volunteer. Why did you do that, John? Well, I worked there because they said if you want to pay off your real estate tax. You can work for the county. This was meant to be for people who couldn't afford to pay their tax. Nobody wanted to work, but I said, I don't mind working. So I worked in, uh, assessor's office and learned a lot about, uh, accessory. So, um, I was about that. Uh, I volunteered a couple places after move to Pendergrass, I did volunteer at Jackson County Airport. Uh, my job there was driving a runway sweeper, cleaning toilets, sweeping floors, uh, serving breakfast, uh, occasionally when they had fly-ins, and I just had a good time being with the airplanes. Well, John, the manager of that airport, what did he, what was his job? He formally was a pilot for Noah Storm chasers, hurricane Hunters. So he flew, uh, those hurricane planes and, uh. Just a side note, his office was in Florida and when they did the movie Strategic Air Command, which I was in, in the Air Force, uh, the office, his office was used in one of the scenes, which he told me about. So enough about me. Joe, we've talked about, uh, 10 minutes. I'm gonna give you a couple minutes, uh, to talk about, uh, your job. Well, go ahead. The very first job that I had was, uh, working for Senator Ditter in Pennsylvania. I worked on Saturday and my job was to shave the cylinders, uh, that were used as a dicta, uh, in the dicta. Dictaphone, yes, Dictaphone. And, uh, I also answer telephones, so. Um, I loved that job. I, I really enjoyed the senator, but then I went to work for, now wait a minute. Was this a US senator or a state senator? State senator. State Senator. State Senator, okay. That, that clarifying. Okay. Yes. And then I went to work for a, uh, a department store and, uh, didn't like that too much. Uh, that was not my cup of tea. Well, what, what did you do there? Oh, I sold anything that anybody wanted and I wrote it. Wrote up the sale. And you sold groceries and No, no, no, no. New groceries. Clothing. Clothing. Okay. Clothing. No shoes, but clothing. Okay. I'm your shoeman. The other Shoeman. Okay. And then, uh, when I graduated from. School. I went to work for a company, a local company, which was Esby and Madison. Uh, k and m as as everybody called it, and, uh, worked in the, uh. Shipping, not the shipping department, but the, uh, gosh, how could I explain that? Uh, were they Bill Laden Bill? Well, I, I took, well you did shipping, you were, you didn't load the freight cars, but you No, no. You, you did paperwork? I did all the paperwork and I would take the paperwork to the local train station where they would ship out merchandise. So, uh, then I thought. I'm not making enough money here. I've gotta gotta get a better job. So I applied for a job with Philco Ford and I had to ride the train. I. To Lansdale, which was about 25 minutes away from my home. But I enjoyed that. I did. And uh, I, I went to work at, uh, telco Ford. Now wait a minute. You had a big benefit there, big payout, didn't you? Well, I worked in the office and for every hour you worked, you got a nickel. In benefits and if you have it overtime and you got 10 cents. So, uh, I ended up having some stock in the company. Hmm. Okay. Big time. Oh yes, big time. How much was that, uh, Joe? Well, I get$2 and 40 cents a quarter. A quarter. Right. And I've been getting that since I was. Let's see. Can you remember? Uh, 20 years old. Okay. So you've been getting your neck for 70, 70 years. 70. 76 years. 76 years you've been getting.$2 40 cents a quarter for Ford? That's correct. Okay. That's, see, I bet you nobody else can, can attest to that. Um, I worked in the accounting department. I was a TER operator, and, uh, on once a month we would have have to go in and take inventory. So we would go out into the factory and count all the items and record those items. For inventory. So, uh, I worked there until my children were, were born. At that time, you were not allowed to work, uh, if you were pregnant. So I was able to work kind of hi my pregnancy for six months and then I had to leave. So then I became a mother, and then my husband, uh, decided he wanted to start his own plumbing business. So I worked in the office of his plumbing company. And then, uh, now wait a minute. As I recall, as you told me, you did a lot of, um. S uh, scheduling of men? Uh, yes I did. So you were telling we we had 14 men working for us. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And, uh, also I took off the. Plans and submitted, uh, bids and, uh, sometime we got them and sometime we didn't. How you, you got paid well for that, I'm sure. Didn't you? Oh, very well. Nothing. Nothing. Okay. Oh my. But now wait a minute. What am, how did this lead into the drive-in theater? Uh, business, which I've told you. Uh, did you sell popcorn or what did you do there? Well, my father-in-law had a drive-in theater. Uh, he actually had a, a 23 acre farm and, uh, it was converted into a drive-in theater. We lived. On the second floor of a, a big house that had a deck, and I used to entertain all of our friends and because we had a speaker on our deck and they would come and watch the movie and I would be feeding everybody. So I decided I'm not making any money. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Did you open trunks to see if anybody came in? Now wait a minute. I went to work as a cashier. Yeah, but what about checking the trunks of cars for No, no. Sneaking in. Every Tuesday, every Thursday it was a dollar a car. Okay. And any, as many as you could get in. That's right. And um, also we had a little cocker spaniel and he used to love to come down to the playground at the theater and he would climb up the, the, uh, sliding. Slider, sliding board and slide down the board. So he'd go up the ladder and slide down the board and the kids would follow him and do the same thing. It was very entertaining. Now, you know, Joe's truthful here. Everything we say is truthful, but if you look up Google driving theaters and, uh, and what town was that in? Um. That was considered Lansdale, Lansdale, Lansdale, uh, Pennsylvania. You will see, uh, the drive-in theater that, uh, she was a cashier at and, uh, took care of my, took care of a dog, uh, going up and down a slide. And my father-in-law owned the property. Your father-in-law. So you, you had it easy, pretty easy there, didn't you? No, I wouldn't say so. Well that, and while I was there, uh. I thought I've got to make more money because my husband's business wasn't doing too well, uh, his plumbing business. So I became a Dutch made demonstrator. I don't know if you know what I, I have no clue what Dutch, I know Dutch, uh, cleanser that you clean the sink with. No, no. Dutchman was, uh, uh, the name of a, a manufacturing company of clothing. So I would take this, I would take the clothing and demonstrate the clothing, and I would put my children into bed at six 30, go off to work at work until midnight demonstrating come home, get up at six when the children got up at six and my day started all over again. Okay. Well you were busy. I was very busy. Busy girl. Then what? Then I You went to Florida? Not right away. Oh, okay. Okay. Go ahead. Then from there, I went to work for. Merck. Okay. Big chemical. Big chemical. Pharmaceutical. Pharmaceutical company. Yeah. Oh, no. Wait, I went to work for RT French company First. Mustard. Mustard people. Yes. I, I started out in quality control. And then I was asked to become the secretary of the engineering department. I loved that job. It was very interesting that I, I was buying, buying all the materials for the engineers to service all of her equipment. And then we had a consulting company come in and, uh, they decided that I should become secretary to the president, the plant manager. And then the plant manager after a few years decided he was gonna go to work for another company in Philadelphia, and he asked me if I would go and I decided. I didn't wanna pay city wage tax and I didn't wanna ride on the train because I had a family to be concerned about. So I applied at Merck and uh, got the job and I worked at Merck, uh, until we went to Florida. And getting back to mustard. Mm-hmm. And quality control. Did you like open jars and taste it or No? No, no. I had, to me that's quality control. Well, that's not the way it was done. It was weighed. You had to weigh all, okay. Well, I, I'm under misconception, however, I have to tell you, the factory went on strike and all the office people had to go out and work the factory lines. I lost 10 pounds in one week because mustard flus 120 jars a minute on a conveyor belt. And if the, a case packer gets packed and, uh, is unable to take it, the jars, the operator, which I was, I was the operator, had to take four jars of, of. Off a conveyor belt really fast, so I lost a lot of weight. Well, you, you were there and I had a lot of respect for the girls that worked in the factory. Anybody that works in a factory gets, uh, respect. Yes, indeed. Hard work. Hard work. One time we forgot to turn the fu uh, line off. We had mustard flowing all over the floor, so we had a disaster. Did you have any hot dogs around or barns? No. No. We did not have a hot make it Chicago hot dog. Uh, with that mustard. Okay, let's get moving. So, when I went to work for Merck, um, uh, I was interviewed by the. Um, a department that submitted all the FDNA, um, findings to the, um, all of our results of our testing to the FDA. Gotcha. And my typewriter ribbon. Was so well, so secure that when I ran out of the ribbon, a security guard would take the ribbon away. Oh wait, you didn't have a computer that you no typed on? No. This was all type word. Word document, maybe? No. All typewriter. Did you use carbon paper? Oh, yes. Okay. But not when you submit it. Some of those you don't know paper. Not when you, not when you went to FDA. Okay. You may not know what carbon paper is, but, uh, it's messy. Very messy. It ruins your clothes. Yes. So, um, then my husband was very ill and he had, he. He was told he had six months to live. Take him someplace where he would be happy. So, uh, we had friends in Florida and we went to visit his friends. We had visited them many times. I. So we decided that we would move to Florida to make him happy. So, so he lived and we lived in Broker Raton, Florida. And he didn't work for a nu a number of years. And then he was offered a job as a supervisor at the, uh, city. City of Boca. City of Boca. I was work, I was working at a bank at the time. And, um, I needed to make more money, uh, because I kept my home in, in Pennsylvania, so we were. We had two mortgages and, uh, I went to work, well, I applied for a job as a supervisor at the book, return Laundry. Well, later I became one of the partners in the business and, uh, that didn't work out too good. So then I decided I would, would, uh, go, I would pie at Siemens. Private industry. Private industry. Okay, good. And uh, well. The, that, that's how I met you. That's right. That's how we got together headed. Yes, indeed. I see all that trail of what's happened to each of us has brought us, uh, together almost 36 years ago. So, and here we are. Yes. And what, even when I went, when I left, uh, Boca and moved to Illinois. You retired, didn't you? I retired. Mm-hmm. Uh, I thought I retired, but when I got to, to Palatine, Illinois one day, John came home and he said there was a notice on the bulletin board if any of the spouses wouldn't come to work apply. So I, I was very bored not working. I. For a number of years. She wasn't used to the easy life. No, I was not. So I applied and I became a subcontractor for them. One of the girls had cancer and she would get her treatments and be wiped out for a couple of weeks, so I filled in. For her, for when she wasn't able to work. Mm-hmm. But I was also volunteering at, uh, two hospitals. Right. Uh, so they allowed me to, you know, uh, work, work in my volunteer work as well. You worked harder than I did because I'd want you to go to lunch and you told me you take two hour lunches and I'm only allowed half an hour. Exactly. So I can't go with you. So I said Okay. Don't long without you. It was my business that I know. I know, I know. So, um, that's kind of what I've been up to now notice, and I thought I had a lot of stuff to talk about, but you have talked two or three minutes more than I have, really. So now we need, I hope that this hadn't bored you all, but, uh, there's jobs there that we've done that you've never heard of. And, uh, notice there's no fast food. Did you do fast food? No, no, no. Fast food. Josh, no f no, no nothing. No gro uh, no food. Well, no food. The only thing food, grocery wise I did was Peapod when I did that on the computer, but Okay. Let's get to what everybody's been waiting for. The punchline of this whole thing is what, yesterday, Joe? Is that right? We had a, we had our church meeting, our life group here. Yeah, our life group. And our, our clock is, uh, ticking. So, you know, this is a real thing. Uh, incidentally, that's my mother's clock, her mother's clock that she's had for. Uh, now you wanna tell a little story about, uh, what your husband formed first husband did? Well, when we were dating, uh, I had to be in at 10 o'clock and, um, my first husband knew that clock was. Would, uh, chime at 10 o'clock and he kept sitting and we also chimed every quarter hour. So, uh, he would turn the clock back so we, it, it never chimed. So you were fooling around a lot longer than, well, he stayed a longer, he stayed longer. Okay. Got it. Okay. Is that it? That's it. Alright. Now getting back. Now I have to say I've married my first and only boyfriend. And then after he passed, John was the second one came. You were my second. Second. Second boyfriend. Second and only boyfriend. Second and only. Right. And last, that's right. The last, now yesterday we had this meeting and one we were just telling different things and one of the ladies said, well, I've got something to tell you. That's interesting. So, um, Joe said. Proceed. Yeah, proceed. So she said that she and her husband had met overseas, uh, on a trip and were coming back into the United States at the airport in uh, immigration section. And her husband, uh, showed his passport, went through the line. No problems. Waited for her on the other side. Was she, she was very nervous. Very nervous. She didn't know if she could get back in the United States or not. Uh, no reason why she couldn't, but, uh, she was afraid she would foul up and she wanted to do everything by the book, so she didn't get stopped. So, going through to the line, she saw a camera. That she thought was a retina camera for the eyes. So she goes up and puts her face in this camera, and the immigration official said, lady, what are you doing? And she said, well, I'm letting you read my eyes so we could see who I am. And they said, ma'am, that's a 24 hour surveillance camera. Get back over here and let me check your passport. Meanwhile, her husband is laughing and yelling at her because he said he got through. She didn't, she was having trouble. But anyway, that's her story. And, and the line was backed up. The line was backed up where she was looking in the camera trying to get her eyes, uh, pictured, if that's okay. Okay. That's it. That's it. This is the longest we've done. I hope you'll listen through to it. And, uh, our PSA announcement, you know, we didn't give one last time, but our PSA now, this one is a do not. This is a note to yourself. Do not kneel in the garden unless you have a plan on how you're gonna get up. Bye bye for now. Bye.