I used to work in a health foods store with my friend Tim.  He’d been working there for years and had become the manager so when I needed a job for a few months just to get by it was easy to get hired.  The place sold protein, creatine, diabetes products, smoothies, vitamins, healthy choice meals, fruits, vegetables, and all the rest of the bland plastic tasting food you can think of.  The store’s owner was barely ever around and that’s a good thing since he’s one of the strangest men I’ve ever encountered.  Short and stocky, he waddled around the store like the Penguin from the old Batman TV series in the 1960s.  He even made all those weird sounds that the Penguin did and half the time he actually walked around with an umbrella even though it wasn’t raining.  I couldn’t really understand him when he spoke and often Tim had to translate if he wanted something from me since he somehow understood him.  I was underpaid the whole time I worked there so when I finally found something better I was glad to quit.  First, I picked up some freelance writing work and then I finally found a job in copywriting, which was the field I always wanted to work in.