05-05-2006, 05:40 PM
meford4u,May 4 2006, 10:22 PM Wrote:Oh, we have been down the same road. Mine was a summer job in university as well.Yup - at least in the equivalent money for the early 70s.
Did you make the kind of $$ I made? 6 days a week, 12+ hours a day. Take home $1000 cash no taxes a week easily.
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I rented the car 24/7 so I'd pick my times to be out - usually 13/14 hours. I never thought about it much but the guy who owned the car (he didn't own the plate) was a heavy drinker and actually lived on the rent money I paid him through the summer.
This was before you needed a special license to pick up at Pearson and every once in a while we'd get a fare to Kitchener or Niagara Falls and they were sweet because you could make your day in like 2 1/2 hours.
And yeah ... meeting girls/women was inevitable -- single moms, bingo queens (for that redneck experience), bar hoppers, strippers (lots of strippers), lonely housewives (I was stoopid fearless, couple of real close calls) -- I was once even picked up by a woman I drove home from the hospital after her car accident --- we waited for her to heal for a couple of weeks before having our "date."
IIRC gas was about 0.55 / gallon (= 0.14 / liter) and I could do a day's business on $8 worth of gas.
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2003 Focus ZX5 infra-red Track Rat - R*I*P
2003 ZX5 CD Silver Track Rat - retired, but still in the driveway
New track rat: 2000 ZX3, Atlantic Blue * JRSC with lots more to come
* New Zetec crate motor - NFG - thanks Topspeed *