Esky McDonalds'

Yes ol' #8 is retired. Lois is pasture bound. I am going to miss all the kids and the old folks and all the in between folks. Fellow employees as well as the customers. Working mostly the early morning shift we have the same people coming through in a hurry on their way to work and like they say someone had to get up first and make the coffee. Then the ones coming off the midnight shift on their way home, tired and ready for a snack and a little harrassment to get them on their way. Actually there isn't a paticular time that there isn't a special customer that you enjoy seeing and passing a couple of seconds with as they go on their way. I had one gent that started ordering a 'one o nickle' because that's what I always said when he asked for a large black coffee. I think he will miss that little reparte for awhile. Another as soon as he started to speak you could have his order punched in and get him moving. Soooo many. I think I took about 70 pictures as they came through and of course I was taking pictures of the crew too. I told them I was making a rouges gallery.

18 years 10 days. Might not seem like a very long time until you consider I wasn't a teeny bopper when I found a career I really enjoyed. I had done many things but working at McDonalds and meeting interesting people from all over the world really made a difference. One couple from Scotland owned a McDonalds there and his name was the same as the owner of our store. Everyday something that just makes life that much more interesting. My son says I will have withdrawl symptoms for a time especially when I see the 'Golden Arches'. I can't even begin to tell about all of the youngsters I have worked with, a lot of whom I trained. I say youngsters because everything is relative and it's the point at which you start.

Enough said for awhile. It will take forever to forget those I have worked with and those I have waited on and those customers that suddenly didn't show up one morning for coffee. All of the high school kids that grew up and started coming in with their own families. The whole process is like it was your family. I really am going to miss it. Talk at ya later. Bye.