News at BajaRon's - We Are Moving!

I think I will miss the old place, having been there several times, but can surely understand the need for more space. When u get settled in, shoot us a pic or two.

Hoping to get up this year but might not make it; my riding buddy is ailing a bit. If not, will try this coming spring.

Best of luck.

Ted

I sure hope the new place has a bench or two on the porch....

Sarah

Congratulations! Hope to visit in the near future

BajaRon said:

Then I hocked papers on the corner of H & Broadway to peope coming out of Convair in the afternoon. Then a paper route when I was in Junior High. I shoveled chicken manure for $1.00 an hour when I was in High School. That kind of work really makes you appreciate a good job.

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Yep, I had a paper route also. I went to a one room school, and I was the janitor after school was out. Cleaned the bathrooms, swept the floors, and emptied the garbage every day. On Fridays, I mopped the floor. My paycheck from the county school district was $12.00 a month. That bought lots of Tootsie Rolls and BBs.

Congratulations! Change is good! (Although as humans, we generally don't like change when it isn't our idea.)

Presumably, still in Greenville?

Little Blue said:

I have never been to BajaRon Garage. I have it on my "want to do" list in the future.

The new place sounds great
Best of Business for you and your family.

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me neither but I've gotten good quality parts fairly quickly through the years. and seems like we actually met in person when Lamont did the BBQ after the 2013 BRP owners event in Maggie Valley. Hope you keep providing the great service to our community for many years to come!

BajaRon said:

I know what you mean. I don't remember my age, but it was fairly young when we used to put up a lemonaid stand in front of our house in Chula Vista. I don't know what we sold it for. Or if we actually made a net profit (though my parents let us keep everything that came in) We did a great business! It tought us how to interact with customers, make change, be dilligent, and gave us purpose and a goal. All good training, though I thought it was just fun.

Then I hocked papers on the corner of H & Broadway to peope coming out of Convair in the afternoon. Then a paper route when I was in Junior High. I shoveled chicken manure for $1.00 an hour when I was in High School. That kind of work really makes you appreciate a good job.

Now, I just can't seem to quit. Though I did quit the chicken manure job a very long time ago. That stuff is HEAVY! Not to metion the smell. Thought it's not nearly so bad until you disturb it.

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I used to work summers in an industrial laundry as a teenager. We washed roller towels that were popular back in the day. I worked a machine that unrolled the towels into four foot folds and then we tied them up in a bailing machine to be washed in a huge tunnel washing machine.

You could not believe the things that were on dirty roller towels and how that human waste got on them when their housings were mounted five feet up a wall. The smell was just terrible as was the temperature and humidity in the factory. The smell just permeated everything on the laundry floor. These days it would be regarded as an industrially hazardous environment for which you would require full PP&E hazardous clothing just to step through the door. And then there was the cockroaches. It was for about 35 pounds per week for a 40 hour week with occasional overtime at time and a quarter - yippee.

However, if you didn’t do so many towels per hour, the portion of pay over the minimum wage could have a percentage docked as that was considered a productivity bonus. Yes, under a pound an hour was the Laundry Council’s agreed minimum wage as a teenager as a union shop. I did that in college for the first few years too, but by then it worked out a little bit more than a pound per hour. Just. My skin crawls just thinking about it.

Having done this, it taught me the value of working hard and completing an education so hopefully I never had to do that job again. Now of course roller towels are gone, replaced with paper towels and hand blowers.

Congratulations. If I'm ever in the area I'll drop in. I'm sure you have something I'll need.