I worked at Safeway back in the day when they didn't have quarter carts and specific areas for carts so they were all over hells half acre in the parking lot. Collecting carts at Southland Mall in Regina when it's the prairie trifecta of -30, snowy, and windy, does not make for a fun evening.
I also had a stint one summer where I worked at The Student Union at the U of R. Again, this was back in the day of the old Lazy Owl pub in the "temporary" building. Another guy and I were tasked with cleaning the drop ceiling supports, which were identical to what many people have in their basement. Imagine a lifetime of smoke wafting up to your basement ceiling, those white supports end up very much caked in yellow brown tar. It would make any smoker stop.
More interesting was the bucket of "chemicals" we had. You put half the supports in for a few seconds and then pulled them out and had half a support covered in tar and half white as snow. Impressive, and scary at the same time. After our first couple of supports we didn't go near the stuff without gloves and eye protection. Thankfully that only lasted for a week or two and I ended up getting a better job.
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