In my life I have had many jobs, of various sorts. Ranging from being a Roadie, to being a puppeteer, lunatic attendant, ice cream seller and so on…. I have even been on a production line, putting peanut butter in jars and even (on one occasion) separating biscuits on a production line!
That one was a real job, I sat at a production line with a load of women beside me, separating biscuits as they came in front of me, talking the while about all manner of things. Just employed to make biscuits separate as they came past me. This was one of the jobs I had as a student, so not a “real” job, though it felt really real to me at the time!
One of the jobs I really enjoyed was working on a machine that put peanut butter in tubes. This consisted of a machine that delivered a measured amount of peanut butter to a jar, which I held in place, and then I had about 4 seconds to bung the lid on it. And now the IMPORTANT bit, it rolled the tube up from the end. And then I threw it into a box, and get ready for the next one.
This was really popular with people from overseas, as they thought that if they put a bit of Marijuana in the tube, it would get past the customs in whatever country they lived in…. I didn’t need to do this, as I lived in Holland anyway.
The idea was that the tube was open at the end, and the machine rolled the end up when it was full. So any “foreign” ingredient would be impossible to see, as opposed to a hand-rolled tube. So it would get past all customs….. I suspected that the various customs were up to that, and they got caught anyhow.
Later, I shall write about my icecream experiences and other such like jobs………
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