This is one of a series of posts about jobs I’ve had during my time on this planet. You can read more posts by clicking the “jobs i’ve had” tag, and read a lengthier intro to the series in the first post.
Much as the timeline has become hazy for some of the jobs I had in college, the timeline is also hazy for my jobs in high school. In the last post I wrote about having jobs at car dealerships over the summer after junior and senior year, and I believe that to be right. However, there were a couple of jobs I had at various points before and after those other jobs, and the exact timeline is lost to the ether. This is one of them.
I had responded to a classified ad from someone who said they had part-time work to offer. That someone turned out to be a chiropractor. What he wanted was someone to hand out pamphlets advertising his services to joggers in a park. You know, since they might throw out their back jogging. The idea sounded as bad to me then as it probably sounds to you now, but I needed to make some money, so I figured I’d try it.
My first day, he took the business van over to the park and I drove my SUV. He handed me a box of pamphlets, and told me a line I should say to people as I tried to hand them out. Almost as soon as I got there, I noticed two attractive girls from my high school class were also jogging there and started to feel embarrassed.
I put in my best effort to walk around the trail for about an hour, handing out pamphlets to people, and was summarily rejected by every one of them. He was jogging in the park while I worked, so I spent the next half hour trying to find him.
When I did, I handed the rest of the fliers back to him and told him this line of work wasn’t for me. He asked how I wanted to be paid, since we hadn’t worked that detail out yet. I told him not to worry about it and left.
You, sir, have led an interesting life.
May 13th, 2009 at 9:07 amLOL, that’s one word for it.
May 13th, 2009 at 9:09 amSo what was the line he told you to use?
May 13th, 2009 at 9:28 amI wish I could remember. All I really remember about it was the horrified reactions.
May 13th, 2009 at 9:31 am