Anniversary Day

[TheFugitive]

Today is the 36th. anniversary of my first day on the job at Ames.

The day prior I had loaded my Olds Cutlass and driven out from Pittsburgh to my training store in Wauseon, Ohio.  It was beastly hot (that was one of the hottest Summers on record with a major drought and a number of 100-degree days). I was not able to find a hotel room in Wauseon due to something called the National Threshers Convention that was taking place there (some type of an old-school farm equipment show) so I had to stay at a Holiday Inn eleven miles south in Napoleon.  It was there that I found a studio apartment for the very affordable price of $250/month.  The commute to Wauseon on lightly used Ohio Route 108 wasn't bad.  Though I once did end up getting a speeding ticket for doing 42 in a 35 cornfield.

I did my training in this store and was there until getting promoted to Hillsdale, Michigan in October.  A lot of interesting things in my life would start happening once I got to Michigan.