Actor Roundup: What Was Your Favorite Summer Job?

“I worked on a 7-Up delivery truck. My first day, there was a driver and a helper, and I was the helper. I was with one of the senior guys in the plant and our very first stop was a Jewel, which is a big grocery store chain in Chicago. I had to go and sort the empties that [customers] would bring in, sort out all our company’s bottles [that were mixed in with other brands] then stack them up in crates that we’d bring back to the factory. We were behind a Pepsi truck, which got there first, so some guy was already doing the same thing I was, but with Pepsi bottles. He had already lined up four or five stacks of five cases each, in a row like dominoes. And I wasn’t aware of this, so I’m backing out and not looking over my shoulder and as I back out, I tapped the first case and it leans, falls — just boom, boom, boom — all the cases of bottles fell and all these bottles broke! I thought I was gonna get fired! I learned a great deal in that one moment. It was a great job.”