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Hammonasset State ParkClam Shed Continued
By Al Miller
To enter the Clam Shed dining room there were three ramps. There was a buzzer attached to each ramp. When the busboy needed the boss or someone in the kitchen to help him in the dining room, he would push the buzzer and somebody would come.
Our boss, whose name was Leo Sullivan, would og out to this home everyday at 12 o'clock and would return at 1 o'clock. Every body who worked in the Clamshed could have coffee for free. For anything else to eat or drink you would have to pay.
So, everyday at 12 o'clock when the boss left for lunch mostly everybody would head for the kitchen to find something to eat, which they did.
There were two fellows at the counter and one busboy out in the dining room. After eating they would have a little fun. Being the busboy I was told to stay out in the dining room. One day a fellow from the kitchen came out to me and told me if anytime during the lunch hour I saw anybody from the Main Office coming down to the clamshed, I was to push the button and that would let everybody in kitchen know to stop fooling around and get back to work.
One day, sure enough I looked down to the main office and the big boss was walking toward the clamshed. His name was Mr. Park. When he was almost to the clamshed, I pushed the button, but it didn't work,
"Oh, Oh! I'm in for it now," I said to myself.
Sure enough. Mr. Park went into the dining room and then to the kitchen door. He opened it and someone spotted him and yelled, "Back to work."
He looked all around and up in the rafters there sat a fellow by the name of Selwood Bushy. The boss said, "What are you doing up there, Selwood?"
"Well," he said to Mr. Park, "You know that there are quite a few birds that fly in and out of theses rafters and they drop their droppings on the rafters and I am up here cleaning the rafters off.
"Well," he said to Selwood, "you are doing a mighty fine job. Keep up the good work." Then he left.
I was in trouble. The fellows asked me why I didn't push the button. I told them I did but it didn't work.
"Well, let's try it."
They pushed the button and it worked.
Boy, was I in for it again.
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