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    >   I've never worked for tips, but one year I worked as a bell ringer for   
    > the Salvation Army, and glad to get that job.  (Long story).     
    >   I did things like greet people, open doors for the store I was outside   
    > of, etc. and collected more than anyone else, simply by doing courteous   
    > little things like that.  And no, I didn't work on a commission.  :)   
      
   I've worked ro the Sallies quite a bit -- every year for 16 years, then had to   
   pull back. In the beginning I got paid (much needed, as I think you get) then   
   50/50, them one yearm ywife, after looking at our end of year finances said I   
   could just straight volunteer if I wanted, as we were doing well, so my last   
   few years were strictly volunteering.   
      
   I enjoyed that better, actually.  I got more thanmost by being courteous and   
   friendly. I'd occasionally cajole (lightheartedly) someone into digging deeper.   
   . . :D    
      
   One lady, funny, shjowed up, poured a handful of change in &said, "I intended   
   this for the Salvation Army anyway, but I heard the bells on my way wealing   
   here & then I got thinking, the longer I heard them, maybe I could do better"   
   then she added a $5 bill.  I snmilded, thanked her, & gave the bells some extra   
   hard jingling, & darned if she didn't laugh, & dig out a $20 from her purse &   
   add that!   
      
   Some guy pulled up in a Bufatti & I asked him to donate a portion of what he   
   pays in gas a week every tiome he sees one of our kettles.  He dropped $20 in,   
   & hopefully went on to give the same several more times. . . :)    
      
      
      
      
    > > Sure did love that one summer day a year when the classic car club rolled   
    > > in with their beautiful cars from the days when style was a thing that   
    > > mattered in Detroit(& Windsor, on our side of the 49th)!   
      
    >   Those were the days.   
    >   I love old cars, up till about 1970, when the government started   
    > "designing" cars (have to have this, not that, etc).   
    >   Back in the day you could tell one car from another without looking at   
    > the badging like today.   
      
    > >>    Sir, I take that as a personal insult and request your appearance   
    > >> tomorrow at sunrise on a field of honour.  :)   
    > >     
    > > My apology, I thoght West was south of Virginia itself. Or is this one of   
    > > those vagaries of the civil war era & politics?   
      
    >   West (by golly) Virginia was part of Virginia until 1863.  Richmond, the   
    > capitol, paid little attention to this part of the state and for years   
    > people wanted to break away and the Civil War provided that catalyst, since   
    > Richmond was otherwise busy.  :)   
    >        
    > > Yeah, I've notiuced that, but I've always been a rebel, so I even went on   
    > > Facebook, prior to our big national election this past Monday, & stated my   
    > > opinions on all 5 parties running.    
      
    >   My comments on FB are basically things like "Happy birthday" or happy   
    > belated, or I agree, etc.   
    >   I'm only on FB a few minutes a day, sometimes not for days.  And the ones   
    > I'm friends with are people I know.   
      
    > >>    The same science that says men can have babies, etc?   
      
    > > This is science now?! Not the science I've read.   
      
    >    Ditto.   
    >     
    > > The only objective fact in determining a person's rightful sex is the XY   
    > > chromie that is in EVERY cell of your body.   
      
    >    Until "science" is able to change one's chromosomes I still think of the   
    > person as whatever sex they were born, no matter much they think they are   
    > the opposite and play dress up.    
    >    Joe   
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