I graduated in 1965, and had started working as a "car hop" at the Dixie Drive-In since I was 14 years old. I didn't remember that my sister followed me in the work endeavor! My sister graduated in 1967, so she must have started working there about the time I was done. Oh my - do you think there was a minimum wage back then. Don't think so. This slip, shows that she worked 60 hours for .75 cents a hour! Then looking closer, you'll see that after the gross earning, the taxes were subtracted, and ALSO the shortage she had for that pay period! Oh I laughed. After all said and done, for the 60 hours from Aug 16 through Aug 31, 1965, she got a whoping $29.82! So kids today. Do you want a job for those wages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What did you get with your first pay check! I remember what I got. I spent my check on a little AM white bakelite radio. (wish I still had it) So spose my whole check must have gone for the radio; and I'm sure it probably wasn't much over 10-15 dollars! Georgia (little sister) said that is what she bought too! We each had our own room, so I'm sure she needed a radio too!
I remember as I got older than the 14 years old, that I worked the weekend late night shifts. Tips were good, but the hours were very late!!! On Saturdays I'd work until 3 am. We were always open til the wee am hours, because the dance halls closed after 1 am, and you'd get the "drunk" crowd that would come in and spend money and order a lot of food. The older "Harsha" guys were always there, and of course you had to be able to take the teasing! One night as I was carrying out a big tray of food and drinks out to their car (the tray would hang on the window edge), as I was almost ready to hand it on the opened window, one of those big, big bugs (think water beetle) flew and "clung" to my face - my cheek!!!!!! OMG! I screamed, the tray went flying (some food inside the car and on their laps and all over! I ran with this stupid bug still hanging on my cheek, to inside the Dixie where the owner (big guy) Art had to get it off me. With me still screaming and by now crying! Oh to this day, I'm still scared of those bugs. Of course they were flying all over the drive-in, because bugs like lights and maybe "car hops"!
Not end of story. I had to pay for their new meals that were ordered up, and offer to get their clothes cleaned = (lucky me because my parents owned the local dry cleaners!). I don't remember if they actually did get their shirts laundered or not, but the offer had been delivered!
Then I took a lot of teasing after that about the whole incident. Now it's just funny. Had forgotten about it all until I saw Georgia's pay stub.
