In my junior year in high school, I opted to take what they called Cooperative Education, which was kind of like a work study program. The best part about it is you received 1 credit for the class and 2 credits for the job. This meant you were able to leave school at lunch time since there were only 2 more class hours after lunch and you had the 2 credits from the job. Shortly after I started that year, I moved up in jobs from working at a carwash to working as a line cook at a Steak & Ale Restaurant.
I didn’t start work until 4:00 PM so I always had several hours to get stoned before work to make sure I had the munchies. You were only allowed one meat item for dinner each shift because all the steaks, lobster, crab was inventoried. The sides, though, were another matter. You could eat all the salad bar, soup, rice pilaf, etc. that you wanted.
During the weeknights, it was always the same. You’d get to work stoned at 4:00, set up your station, and, starting at 5:00, the dining room opened and you would first get the older people until about 6:00 PM. Then you could go outside and catch a little refresher buzz before the main crowd started showing up around 7:00 PM. The dinner rush would be over about 9:00 but we were open until 10:00 PM so after the main rush you could get another little buzz before you started to break everything down and start cleaning.
On the weekends, everything was pretty much the same but the kitchen was open until midnight and the bar closed at 2:00 AM. When the bar closed, they would let us go in and play space invaders and missile command for free. We would stay and get stoned and play video games until the manager left usually between 4:00 and 5:00 in the morning. Needless to say, I was a space invaders/missile command expert after a few months.
Should I Be Stoned at Work?: Part II
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