Jan's Short Stories

By Jan Griffith, Sr

This is few of my stories that aren't long enough to publish as one book so I combined several short stories into one. these are real life stories that I can contest to be true and actually happened. I hope you enjoy your read.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jan Griffith, Sr
• Release date: Dec 3, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463973639

Jan Griffith, Sr

I am 69 years of age and I started putting my life history in print maybe 20 years ago on an 8088 computer and then i got away from it for a long time and about a year ago I learned of Smashwords.com from my granddaughters pen pal and it rekindled my need to finish my books and then I found a few more areas to write the history of and that brought me to publish my first book.I am married with two children and 9 grand children and am a retired Parts person and trying to enjoy life without having to be at a place of work everyday. My wife and I have been raising a large garden and selling some of our crops in our front yard.I have in the neighborhood of dozen books yet to be finished and published to Smashwords specs, I know I will enjoy finishing those books too! jansr..

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Jan’s Short Stories

Author: Jan Griffith Sr.

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Copyright November 2018

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These writings are of a multiple of different stories that happened to me over my life. It is a several different short jobs that I held, some I walked away from and some they walked me out the door. You’ll find out most of them I walked away from on my own decision to do so.

These stories are true and actually did happen and I’ve only used the first names; some of them all I can remember is the first name. Have you ever had people you work with for several years and never know their last name? I have.

These are jobs that I never succeeded very well or I just didn’t like the job after I got it. I had a series of jobs over a few years that just didn’t work out well for one reason or another.

Thanks to ever one that has decided to read these stories.

Chapter one; Sewell’s US Mail, Star Route;

Martinsville, Ohio driving US MAIL star route from Cincinnati to Greenfield every other day.

I left Buckley’s $2.75 hour driving job for this $3.25 driving job. The two jobs were as different as day and night. The Buckley's job was dusty, dirty and sometime late hours where the US Mail job was on a set schedule, clean and home on time every other day.

I took over this job from my brother Jack he moved on to driving semi loads of US MAIL.

I would report to Pappy’s at Martinsville at 11: am and I would fuel up and check the fluids and tires and I would start my route by going toward Cincinnati. I would stop at Martinsville Post Office and pick up outgoing mail bags, then proceed to Midland PO and pick up their outgoing mail bags, (keep in mind I had a 15minute window to be at each PO) from Midland I went to the Blanchester PO picked up their outgoing mail bag and from Blan I would go to the Goshen PO and then on to the Milford PO. When I left Milford I would travel west on Columbia Parkway as far as they allowed trucks then they routed my down on Eastern Ave west to where I could jump back on Columbia Parkway again over to I-75 north to Hopple Street west over to the US Mail annex sort center by this time it was 12:30 pm I would unload my mail on the west side of the building and then go around to the east side of the building and wait for when it was time for the mail going out to the Post Offices on my star route. It usually would be a half hour or so. They would bring out the parcel and third class mail first and the first class would come out last and the bags would be pad locked. I would sort and set the bags in separate piles on the truck to make my delivery easy and to eliminate mistakes, because they write you up if you left a mail bag at the wrong PO. And as they would if you were 16 minutes late or 16 minutes late, that schedule became very hard to keep in bad weather and heavy traffic, but I never did get wrote up for anything.

I would leave the annex about 2pm I guess and I would retrace the route I just traveled and deliver mail to those PO that I just made pickups at and then after I got past Martinsville my next stop would be New Vienna, Leesburg, and then Greenfield, Ohio. I would get to Greenfield about 4 pm and I would have an hour layover there were sometimes I would go across the street and get a cup of coffee or a snack while I waited.

At about 5 PM I would load up and start back toward Cincy making all the stops that I did on the way to Greenfield picking up outgoing mail again. I lived between New Vienna and Martinsville and being on the schedule I was on Becky would know almost exactly when I would be coming in. I would take about a half an hour for my supper at home.

That summer I developed a really bad allergy to Dandelions blooms. It was so bad I nothing I ate had any good taste what so ever. It was just a nasty thing on my throat, I ate throat drops like crazy and it would go away. It got so bad I could hardly stand to try to eat anything.

After supper I would proceed on west stopping and picking up mail at all the ones I did earlier in the day. This time I would get at the annex around 7:30 pm and unloaded on the west side, then I was done until 3:30 am and that meant setting there for eight hours until the morning mail came out of the annex.

I usually would go down the street to the Frisch’s restaurant and have a sandwich or soup and some coffee and just hang out in there until about 9 pm and then go out to the truck and lay across the seat and try to get some sleep, I had an alarm clock that I used to make sure I didn’t fall asleep and oversleep.

I would get up and be over at the annex at 3:30 am and between then and 4 am they would start bring the parcel and third class out and finish up with the first class mail at about 4:15 am, I would do my load the same as I did before I would leave by 4:30 am and work my way all the way back up the route dropping off incoming US mail and arrive in Greenfield by 6 am. I would then go out to the north side of town and park