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Two Unexpected Losses at My First Job
Nails and cars went flying as my ice cream addiction grew.
Ice cream.
My love affair with ice cream started when I was 15 years old.
One of my best friends worked at Baskin Robbins (31 flavors back in the day) and was able to serve as my reference, meanwhile scoring me my first job.
We got to work together, along with a few others that went to our school. It was a fun first job.
Plus, we got all the free ice cream that we wanted. The ice cream love affair began that later turned into an addiction.
I know how these things go.
Anyway, one night while working, it got extremely busy. Everyone always seemed to come in at the same time.
The shop was full of parents and their children who all wanted either bubble gum or rainbow sherbet. The bubble gum was too low for another scoop, so I ran to the back freezer to grab another tub.
After grabbing the empty tub out of the ice box, I went to carefully drop in the new bubble gum as the eyes of little ice cream monsters peered at me…
