My grandmother worked during prohibition as a hat check lady in a "speak-easy"... Then after it was repealed by the 21st Ammendment, she worked in ont night club after another until she became about 60. The she worked in a plastics factory running all kinds of machines until she was forced to retir at age 79 after a mishap with a band saw that almost took off her hand...

She was boen in 1898 and died at 102 years old some three years ago and...

....sniff. I miss that ol' gal.

I used to stop by and visit her an' split a beer with her every night after I got off work...

The ol' gal would cuss lie a sailor but had some fine stories to tell...

Bobert