Thank goodness another season of working at the mall has ended. It sure seems to be taking a long time to recover. We just put in another long season working for Hickory Farms at the mall in Roseburg, Oregon. We have been spending long hours at the mall with very few days off since the first of November but that all ended almost a week ago. I have certainly had lots of aches and pains going on for the last few weeks. There are folks younger than us that couldn't handle the long hours of standing on our feet. I don't know how my grandmother did it into her 80's, working in grocery stores, checking groceries, standing on her feet all day long. Working at a mall is a real experience..... it is a different culture.... a community of sorts. It is a whole different way of life ...... hard to understand or describe unless you do it. We connected with lots of the folks we met last year. It is like a reunion of sorts. It is been all consuming.... all we've been thinking and talking about is selling cheese and sausage. When we are at home our minds were too tired to even attemp to conjure up thoughts about anything else.
