My life as I remember it # 5

When I arrived in State College in the middle of April 1979, I stayed with my mother who lived on Crickelwood Dr. in Toffee trees Area.

I applied for a breakfast cook’s job at the Nittany Lion Inn (The Penn State's top of the line Inn) and lost the bid. So I took a night cook’s job at the AutoPort restaurant. To start on a Tuesday, on Monday the Nittany Lion Inn called and told me the new guy they had hired did not show up for work, so would I start at 5:30 AM Tuesday. I said I would as it was a union job with all the medical benefits and retirement. I also went to work at the AutoPort at 4 PM. I worked 6 AM to 2:30 PM at the Nittany Lion Inn and 4 PM to 11 PM at the AutoPort. I was off at the Inn on Friday and Saturday and off at the AutoPort on Tuesday and Wednesday, which worked out well for me. I have always been a work alcoholic. This schedule made it so I never worked the two jobs on the same day more than two days in a row. I kept this schedule for 2 ½ years.

The AutoPort is where I met Betty Lee, she was the only waitress in the coffee shop in the evening. There were about 10 waitress in the main dinning room. We both had a friend working the front desk of the motel of the AutoPort. He invited both of us to go to a club with him and this started Betty Lee and I getting together. We started to live together on the 10th of October 1979. I had bought a one bedroom trailer in Hill Top Trailer Park. Where we started our life together.

Be safe out there and be well.

Love

Bob