Holiday Weeks
By Jon Halgren
“Hey,
Kid did you take a job?” No the peg did not get to me, maybe tonight or
tomorrow. “Is there a reason you did not take a job?” “Just too many pegs
in the board.” “If a replacement comes in are you next out?” “I think
so.”
This
was at the 84 Union Street Hall. I do not remember the name of the brother who
spoke with me. He went to the dispatchers’ window and talked to the
dispatcher.
He
came back and started talking to me. “You know this week makes the paycheck of
Christmas week. Believe it or not
we had a sometime tradition, when the regulars would make sure all the “B”
would get jobs for holiday weeks to have a nice paycheck, and a happy
holiday.”
My name got called. I got a
replacement. That was a good job. I would not have understood why he checked out
had he not told me the short story.
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