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PAGE 4 - MADISON MESSENGER - <strong>July</strong> 28, <strong>2019</strong><br />

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Work’s payoff can come in unexpected form<br />

Job satisfaction and long-term career goals were not on the mind<br />

of my mother as a 14-year-old graduate of the Austrian school system<br />

looking for employment in post-World War II Vienna.<br />

Yes, age 14 is the graduation age (they do things differently in<br />

Europe) and no, it was not an easy task to find a job amid the ruin<br />

and rubble of a city recovering from the bombing brought about by<br />

the war.<br />

Going shop-to-shop, she asked, inquired and begged for a position<br />

to earn money to help her family, not unlike thousands of other<br />

teenagers and adults displaced by years of Nazi and Russian occupation.<br />

She finally found employment–on a production line stuffing cotton<br />

into stainless steel lighters. Later she sold knives at festivals<br />

to country folk who believed the company’s “will never lose its<br />

sharpness” hype, then served travelers at an outdoor restaurant,<br />

often working 80 hours a week.<br />

My mother was 19 when four nations patrolled quadrants of the<br />

city. My father was serving in the Army at the time and, while it<br />

was not love at first sight–my mother was, and still is, an independent<br />

woman–they fell in love and got married.<br />

After coming to America, getting settled and raising me, my<br />

mother went back to work at a restaurant on Parsons Avenue in<br />

Columbus near a railroad complex.<br />

You might not think of Parsons Avenue as a destination spot for<br />

fine dining. (The building is still there today, albeit boarded up and<br />

in a terrible state of disrepair.) But at one time, Johnson’s Restaurant<br />

served the movers and shakers of Columbus, including mayors,<br />

lawyers and a young Jack Nicklaus.<br />

Tables were covered in linen, well-maintained fish tanks functioned<br />

as living portraits of sea life, and a special Japanese-themed<br />

room featured low-level seating. Waitresses like my mother were<br />

dressed in white uniforms and knew many of the customers by<br />

name, always addressing them formally as Mr. or Mrs.<br />

While the restaurant still served railroad workers during the afternoon<br />

rush at a lunch counter on the opposite side of the building,<br />

dimmed lighting and elevated seating areas were hallmarks of the<br />

finer dining area.<br />

Although located outside of the downtown loop, Johnson’s was<br />

still considered one of the city’s “fancier” establishments and tips<br />

reflected that status. It was not uncommon for my mother to receive<br />

a $3 tip, considered high for the time.<br />

This brings me to the crux of my story.<br />

I asked my mother the other<br />

day, “What was the best tip you<br />

ever received while working as a<br />

waitress?” Her response surprised<br />

me. “25 cents.”<br />

She told me that one evening a couple came in. The<br />

man was dressed in clean, but older overalls and the<br />

wife was dressed in a plain, but pressed dress.<br />

She was timidly clutching a small handbag and a<br />

handkerchief.<br />

They were seated, looked over the menu and selected<br />

the most inexpensive meal–ham steak, which was obviously<br />

an extravagant dinner for them.<br />

While their clothing was in stark contrast to diners<br />

around them, my mother realized this was a special<br />

outing for the couple and still treated them with the<br />

same care and attention as her regular customers.<br />

When they were finished, the man called my mother<br />

over.<br />

He turned to his wife and said, “See, I told you I was<br />

places<br />

Linda Dillman<br />

going to bring you to a nice place.”<br />

He then turned to my mother<br />

and thanked her before handing<br />

her the quarter and saying, “Here,<br />

honey, this is for you.”<br />

When I heard this story, I<br />

cried. My mother did, as well.<br />

It amazed me that here was a<br />

woman who lived through a war,<br />

lean times trying to find a job, a<br />

move across the ocean and employment<br />

in the service industry<br />

with a foreign accent, but her best<br />

memory of work was a 25-cent tip.<br />

My mother made the day for<br />

that couple, but they gave her a<br />

memory for a lifetime.<br />

Linda Dillman is a <strong>Messenger</strong> staff writer.<br />

Creature film is back with some bite<br />

Want to see apex predators on the big screen? Are<br />

you not interested in watching them singing and dancing<br />

and, you know, getting along with others? If so,<br />

might I suggest the recently released “Crawl” to whet<br />

your ravenous appetite?<br />

If you’re like me, you miss the abundance of mindless<br />

creature features that filled the summer blockbuster<br />

slate in the 1990s and early 2000s. These films were<br />

fun, simple, stupid and exactly what you wanted to see<br />

during these long and hot months.<br />

Unfortunately, like most species on this planet, this<br />

genre became endangered and then practically extinct<br />

due to human activity, or inactivity to be more precise,<br />

at the box office. But unlike the former, powerful people<br />

in charge may be looking to bring the latter back to life,<br />

a welcome respite from the constant stream of comic<br />

book adaptations, sequels and reboots. Though some<br />

the reel deal<br />

Dedra Cordle<br />

may<br />

not be thrilled with this potential bit of news, I say it is<br />

cause for a generic celebration. Let the creature feature<br />

reign!<br />

In “Crawl,” the primary focus is on a competitive<br />

swimmer named Haley Keller (Kaya Scodelario) and<br />

her strained relationship with her father Dale (Barry<br />

Pepper). For reasons not well explained, these two had<br />

a falling out several years ago and have been in minimal<br />

contact since despite living a short distance away.<br />

See CREATURE, page 5<br />

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