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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 />
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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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