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Up next, a story about a first job. Here's our regular contributor from Delaware. Brent Timmons with his story. During my high school and college years, I worked at a restaurant. the Fenwick Crab House, in Fenwick Island, Delaware.
The restaurant was owned by Casher and Mabel Evans from 1962 to 1983. In February of 2006, I sent this letter to Mrs. Evans. mister Evans had previously passed. DEAR MRS.
EVANS, This correspondence is long overdue. There were a few things I've been meaning to tell you. This is no exaggeration. I have a dream about the Crab House two or three times a year. It is always a similar dream.
I come into the kitchen, years after having worked there, and I am expected to cook. but it has been so long that I can't remember what to do. It isn't traumatic or anything. I just realized that time has passed and I need to relearn the job. Those years in the kitchen must have made quite an impression for me to still be dreaming about the crab house.
I became aware of job openings through Michael. It was the spring after we got our driver's license, nineteen seventy seven. Mike came to school one day and said he had gotten a job at the crab house. I asked what he would be doing. Washing dishes and peeling potatoes are the only two chores I can recall.
I could do that, I thought, and working with my best friend Mike would be ideal. A nervous phone call to Mr. Evans ended with an invitation to come to Selbyville to interview for a job. He told me where he lived, a white house in view of Rick's laundromat, The only house with a picket fence. I drove to Subbyville to a house with a picket fence in view of Rick's.
No one came to the door. A neighbor alerted me that I was at the wrong house. You lived in the other only house with the picket fence. I passed the interview and had landed my first job. Perhaps it was my relation to my grandfather Elias, a good friend of mister Evans, that made him feel obligated to give me a chance.
Well that and how hard could it be anyway? Despite my inability to find your house, I did find the crap house on that first day of work. I drove down with Mike, thinking the company would help with first aid jitters. I had known a few people who had worked there. my older brother Buddy included.
He lasted about a week. My first day on the job, I came under the instruction of Will Daisy. Will was only a couple of years older than I. but seem much more mature and wise. He became one of my mentors at the Crabhouse.
He seemed flawless in his job. He was universally accepted as our peer leader. While Will was our peer leader, We also had our teacher leader. Dave Baker. who coached basketball and taught school.
How did you find these guys? Dave had been there thirteen years. and will about five by the time I came. They were wholeheartedly devoted to the restaurant, but most of all devoted to the Crabhouse family. I had great respect for both of them, You know as well as I that the Crab House would have been a very different place without them.
I learned from them. What defined the proper relationship between us employees? And you and Mr. Evans, the the owners. That first summer, I washed dishes and did occasionally peel potatoes.
although you had that nifty potato peeler. I learned that if you left the potatoes in too long, you ended up with potatoes the size of golf balls and cherry tomatoes. And I also learned or actually relearned to make salad. We made salad on that table in the back porch next to the coleslaw mixer. I was standing there one day during cucumbers.
It took no great skill, Cut both ends off and feed them through the slicer. but I managed to fumble on step one. I was cutting the ends back to where the seeds started. mister Evans came strolling in to see what we were up to. Why are you cutting so much off the end of the cucumber?
he questioned.
Well That's the way my mother does it. I responded. It was then I first learned about the quick wit and intolerance for impertinence of mister Evans. How long has your mother been in the restaurant business? he bellowed.
I don't think I intentionally determined to cut the cucumbers in a way that was different from how I was told to, but I did learn that day the importance of paying close attention to instructions. We've gotten many a laugh recalling that story. My mother especially enjoyed it. It may have been about my second year when my impertinence reared its ugly head again. I was a slow learner.
mister Townsend, a very, very old man, would come in to eat several times a week. I didn't really grasp the significance of what mister Evans was doing for him at the time. because I was young and self centered. mister Evans would hand prepare mister Townsend's dinner. It was usually no.
like that always. Broiled chicken breast. no skin, sautéed asparagus, and boiled potatoes. Mr. Evans viewed the task of cooking for his old friend as a privilege.
I viewed it as just a chore.
Sometimes Mr. Evans would cut up the chicken himself. But often he would come to me and ask that I go get a chicken and do the honours, as I was one of the resident chicken prep guys. By this time in my crabhouse career, I'd advance to Clam Man. A job I took over from Rex Palmer.
I thought that I was very busy one night. when mister Evans requested that I cut up two chicken breasts for him. A little exasperated and wondering why he couldn't do it himself, I said, Mr. Evans, I'm really busy right now. Wrong answer.
You're not too busy to work for me, he shouted. I had missed the whole point of mister Townsend's dinners. I was too young. to have an old friend that I love to serve. I had my first serious relationship while working at the crabhouse.
She was a wonderful girl. and mister Evans loved her. But he felt it was important to constantly tell me the hazards of first relationships, He warned me over and over about these hazards. I ignored him. and finally figured out on my own that maybe These should not occur your senior year of high school.
I had my second serious relationship right after ending the relationship with my first. also a waitress at the Crab House. She was a wonderful girl as well, and mister Evans loved her as well too. He did not warn me about second relationships. His mistake was that he should have warned the girls about me, not the other way around.
And you've been listening to Brent Timmons share with great detail. Great emotional memory too. His first job at the crab house. From everything from his duties to Two well, his loves, his first two loves. springing from that employment.
And there's nothing like working to get to know people, especially. in a business like that. The amount of time you spend together, and the stress you suffer through together, and the slow times you get through together. When we come back, More of Brent Timmons. on his first job.
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If you eat too many ultra-processed foods, you could be starving your gut microbes, and they'll get hangry. That's one of many things I learned after working on a new audio course about the gut microbiome. You can learn how to keep your gut happy by listening to Try This from the Washington Post. I'm Christina Quinn. I host Try This.
Dig in with me on practical advice for life's common challenges. Follow Try This right now wherever you're listening. Seriously, try it. And we continue with our American stories and Brent Timmins' story on his first job. The Fenwick Crab House in Delaware, working for Casher and Mabel Evans.
Might point out that this story is actually a reading of a letter he wrote. to Mabel Evans. When we last left off, Brent was telling us about some of the lessons he learned there. from the pitfalls of young love to how to cut a cucumber properly. Let's continue with the story.
Okay. I mentioned that I had taken over the job of clam man for Rex. Rex had a way of joking and kidding that I really enjoyed. One day, while training me on the clam steamer, he mentioned that if you aren't sure if a clam is good or not, you can tap two together. If they make a solid clicking sound, they are both good.
If one is dead, it won't hold its shell tightly together. and it will make a dull thud. It was legitimate instruction. Think. You never knew about Rex.
He may have overemphasized the necessity of this task. Because I took him to mean that you should do this on every clam you put in the bucket for steaming.
So if you were to observe me doing clams, you would have heard an incessant tapping. I can be a little compulsive. and it became a compulsion to tap clams together. I didn't want a dead clam in the steamer. Mr.
Evans caught me doing this early on. He asked why I was knocking the clams together. and I told him, not impertinently, mind you, that I was checking to see if they were good. Rex told me to do it, I added. I had learned from the cucumber episode to follow instructions to the T.
Mr. Evans roared in laughter. From that day on, he referred to me as Knock Knock. It makes me laugh just thinking about it. The following spring, working some before the season started, he had forgotten what nickname he had given me.
I reminded him, and knock knock stuck for the rest of my time at the crabhouse. Eventually, I moved up to Linecook. It wasn't until recently that I realized I wasn't really cut out to be a line cook. My favorite thing to do at the crab house was to cook out of Siberia 2. Siberia was a long stroll to the other end of the kitchen and was given that name due to its remote location.
Siberia too was the smaller line in that kitchen. I like Siberia too because I would have just a couple of waitresses. and would be able to work on one or two orders at a time. What I realized just a few years ago is that I am not a great multitask person. I don't do well trying to do a bunch of stuff all at once.
thus my attraction to the small line in Siberia. My next favorite job was Siberia One. It was not as busy as the main kitchen. and much less chaotic.
So even when it did get busy down there, there were fewer things to distract me from cooking. Plus Working in Siberia 1, Normally Matt you would be the first to get off work. I don't know if everyone else knew this about my abilities or not. If they did, they were sensitive enough not to make a big deal out of it. But my guess is that you all understood our strengths and weaknesses.
and put us where we would work the best. It was wise on your part. And as I look back, much appreciated online. One of the things I really enjoyed was the preseason work. I enjoyed going with Will and mister Evans down to the Crab House before we opened for the season.
I liked being in that select group of people who could be on the inside. Perhaps I was really seeking to be a right hand. I wanted to be a go to guy for mister Evans. On a Saturday morning after the restaurant season had ended, mister Evans called me at home. He invited me to go to a University of Delaware football game with you.
It was the same day that my grandfather chose to dig out his potatoes. a yearly task for one Saturday in the fall. He would plant rows and rows, enough to feed everyone in our family who wanted them. for the entire winter. We would all go and dig them out after he turned over the dirt with the tractor.
It was an all day affair of digging, loading them into baskets, and transporting them to the pump house for storage. I enjoyed it. to a degree. but also viewed it as sort of an obligation, partly so we could share in the free potatoes all winter. and partly because Papop couldn't do it alone.
Today mister Evans called, I can't really say I was totally thrilled about going to the game. I had never been to a college scheme, And there were the potatoes. Looking back, I am sure my family would have given me the go ahead to go to the game. but I dug potatoes instead. I should have gone to the game with you and mister Evans.
I should have taken advantage of your generosity. It was a great privilege to have been invited to spend the day with you. And in my short-sightedness, I missed it. There is a brick wall in front of Prince George's Chapel in Dagsborough. Sections of it have been replaced over the years due to cars driving through it.
Some of those bricks were due to Kendra West driving her car through it late one night after work. She fell asleep on her way home. I don't exactly know what you did. but I recall hearing that you either loaned her the money to buy a new car, or gave her some money towards a new car. Either way.
It was a very generous and caring thing for you to do. and I took note of it. It was completely in character for both of you. One summer, Dorothy had a hernia repaired. You made a place for her out front, seating customers, while she recovered.
Perhaps it was a wise move on your part. as she was so cheerful and chatty and cute. But I was very aware that you were taking care of her until she was well enough to go back to waiting tables. Um While I was dating Sherry, You invited us to a New Year's Eve party in Mehoboth. The Old Landing Country Club, I think.
or perhaps it was the Rehoboth Beach Yacht and Country Club. It was a very classy affair. as one would expect. The old folks did the jitterbug and whatnot. We felt privileged to spend the evening with you.
I knew that we were much more than a couple of kids who just work for you. And that is my whole point. You and mister Evans made us all a part of your lives. We were not just employees. You loved us.
And we loved you back. because you earned it by investing yourselves in our lives. I learned in those five years that life isn't just about work. It is more about people. And when you do it right, Some of us end up dreaming about it for the next 24 years.
I have often wondered if I could have better spent my summers someplace other than the Crab House. At least one spring I was considering looking elsewhere for a summer job. I waited until late spring. to call mister Evans and let him know I would like to return to the crabhouse that year. mister Evans seemed to know what I had been contemplating.
He didn't say much about it. But he said just enough to let me know it bothered him that I had felt the need to consider going someplace else. I can only recall thinking about not returning that one year. If I had, in fact, done something else with my summers, I would not have learned about the pitfalls of young relationships, A first hand experience I shall be sure to try to relate to my own children. I would have missed the opportunity to work with a wide variety of young kids of all kinds of backgrounds.
The Crab House was a training ground for relationships. I would have missed all of that. and I would not have had the opportunity to work with a couple fifty years my senior. and to develop a friendship with that couple that went far beyond an employee employer relationship. I don't think the fruit of that experience is over yet.
I fully expect some day. to have an opportunity to befriend young men and women 50 years my junior. and be able to influence their lives as you and mister Evans did mine. and at that time I expect to hear an almost audible bell go off in my head, and I'll say to myself, Now this is why I spent five of the most impressionable years of my life at the Crab House with Mr. and Mrs.
Ethens. And a terrific job on the production by Monty. And a special thanks to Brent Timmons for sharing his story of his first summer job. And by the way, he did that by reading a letter. that he had written to Mabel Evans.
and her husband cash. were the owners of the Fenwick Crab House, where young Brent did so much learning. Working for a couple 50 years older than him, well, that memory still burns in him because he's now hoping to transfer his knowledge. to a generation or two generations behind him. And that's how so much of our learning happens.
It gets passed along. from generation to generation. And we love sharing these intergenerational stories. His old and young have a lot to give each other. The story of Brent Timmons, the story of a first job.
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