What we do for Minimum Wage
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In my salad days (circa 1971) I made minimum wage delivering trash. I hung advertising handbills on doorknobs and gate handles all around the San Francisco Bay Area.
Get to the downtown SF warehouse at 5 AM. Jump in a big van filled with stacks of paper flyers topped with other workers: bums, freaks, illegals, idiots, of all ages and genders. Walk all day distributing trash. Steal mail from porches. Smoke pot and opium, chug cheap strong wine, piss in gardens, use a water pistol to shoot ammonia at nasty dogs. Eat cheapest food for lunch. Ride the van back to the warehouse and be paid a dollar an hour, cash. Those who showed up every weekday got the balance of 65 cents per hour on Friday. Hey, I could make sixteen bucks a day and only spend a couple bucks on burgers and red port!
There were good moments, including sex, play, splendid sunrises, more opium -- and not-so-good moments, like dog bites and suspicious cops. Whatever. It was better than working for a living.
Get to the downtown SF warehouse at 5 AM. Jump in a big van filled with stacks of paper flyers topped with other workers: bums, freaks, illegals, idiots, of all ages and genders. Walk all day distributing trash. Steal mail from porches. Smoke pot and opium, chug cheap strong wine, piss in gardens, use a water pistol to shoot ammonia at nasty dogs. Eat cheapest food for lunch. Ride the van back to the warehouse and be paid a dollar an hour, cash. Those who showed up every weekday got the balance of 65 cents per hour on Friday. Hey, I could make sixteen bucks a day and only spend a couple bucks on burgers and red port!
There were good moments, including sex, play, splendid sunrises, more opium -- and not-so-good moments, like dog bites and suspicious cops. Whatever. It was better than working for a living.
