Truth in Advertising

[rolanni]

From the Sunday Sentinel's job listings:

Category: General Help
Description: HARD WORK
LONG HOURS.
Earn $150-$300
cash paid daily.
Call Big Dale
(Phone number deleted, 'cause you really don't wanna be calling Big Dale. Trust me.)

You don't usually see this kind of ad in the fall. The carny ad has for years been: HARD WORK. LONG HOURS. MEAN BOSS. But that runs in the spring.


I work at my cousin's place tomorrow, then I have five days off in a row. Therefore, I will be printing off a copy of Carousel Tides today in preparation for a cold read. Will have to straighten the Auxiliary Office, aka the living room sofa, and excavate the Mencken Table. And finish the current project, which is alllllmost there.

Better get crackin'.

Comments

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

They don't pick cranberries up in Maine do they? Seems a little late for picking jobs, though?

Construction work?

Maybe we should have a contest to see who can come up with the best story based on this ad?

Curiosity is good for the soul, right? :-)

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Maine does have a modest cranberry industry, but I'm honestly not sure when they rake. I want to say September, October, but that's a flat guess.

However, what I know you and don't ('cause of that blacked-out phone number)is that Big Dale is based in Portland. The cranberry bogs are 'way up-country.

Good guess, though.

kinzel thought maybe Dale needed tippers, or Christmas tree cutters. I thought day-labor, myself. But neither of us could figure out why the ad wouldn't have said so, since all those jobs require certain, not-necessarily-overlapping, skill-sets.