Fly Paper Fly Counter

Theresa Berens

If I ever complained about my nannying or grocery store jobs in high school, I could count on my parents to remind me that it wasn’t that bad. When my aunt was in high school, she scored the charming job of fly paper fly counter. Yes, that’s counting the number of flies that stuck to fly paper on farms.

It always shut me up pretty quickly. The grocery store suddenly seemed palatial.

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