Listening 6 – Listen for specific words

The worst job that I ever had was actually the Fill in the blank 1 of 11 job that I ever had. I was fifteen years old and I was a plate-washer at a bed and breakfast in Amish country. And where I grew up in the mid-west, there were these tight-knit Amish communities that were far-off from everything; far from electricity, and from buzzing cars and Fill in the blank 2 of 11 , and it was the perfect setting for a little quaint bed and breakfast. People would come in from the city and they would spend a weekend or spend some time there and enjoy Fill in the blank 3 of 11 .

But part of the quaintness was this cozy little restaurant that didn’t have a Fill in the blank 4 of 11 ; that served one thing every meal. There were no options, they just cooked it and brought it to you. And I was the dish washer. And I would go there with my brother, who was Fill in the blank 5 of 11 enough to drive, we would go there and would always just have the most exotic things come back on plates. I felt like you couldn’t get plates any Fill in the blank 6 of 11 with this food.

I had to not only rinse everything off in scalding hot water, but dry it in this industrial dishwasher and dryer that would just burn your hands every time you Fill in the blank 7 of 11 a plate – but they kept coming, so you had to wash them and get them in and then get them out. And I remember my hands being burnt and just achy all the time. I knew I was gonna get burnt touching these plates.

And then there was also the other Fill in the blank 8 of 11 , there was a freezer, a walk-in freezer that you had to go into to get certain things, certain supplies, it was the grunt work to get things. And actually my first day there, I got locked in the walk-in freezer. There was no handle on the inside, but instead there was a Fill in the blank 9 of 11 that no one had ever really showed me, and when I was in there I actually got stuck in there.

Thankfully there was a small Fill in the blank 10 of 11 in the middle that I was able to knock on and you try to get somebody’s attention – but I was in there before 5 or 10 minutes before anyone came and got me.

And long story short, I didn’t last very long in the plate-washing industry. It was not my Fill in the blank 11 of 11 of choice. I only worked there for about six months; made enough money to buy a new bike, and I was outta there.