Monday, June 4, 2012

Avengers (2 of 2): A beer afterwards.

After seeing "The Avengers", I went out for a beer with the sister of my one British friend.

Somehow, we started talking about her English family and the jobs that both of her aunts have.

In retirement, both decided to start doing something to get some money and stave off boredom.

The one cleans the pub near her house; she gets up everyday and goes there at 6am to clean it, after the night before.

The other started up a burger van that makes a crapload of money.  She parks it at a good location near a lot of office buildings and serves breakfast through early dinner, and fries up burgers with onions and makes a lot of homemade everything, and even though most of her clientele is business people, people drive there from other towns just to get her food. 

My friend worked for her aunt for one summer, too, though she says she'd never do it again; the work was pleasant enough, she said, but after a shift she'd just smell like burgers, even her underwear.

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