We had America's only active 90 and later 100 year old Avon lady. Some of you may remember her two shows on the Johnny Carson show.
She was a hard working, fiesty but totally honest old gal who lived through the depression and worked for every penny she ever had.
By the time she was in her late 80's she no longer trusted herself to drive. Local folks in our small rural community kind of adopted Rosie and went out of their way to help this frugal old soul who never stopped working as long as she lived. The locals, mostly retired folks who volenteered their time to drive Rosie on her Avon rounds, had to chuckle a bit about Rosie's drivers pay. She would not think of asking anyone to serve as her driver for no pay, but she could not comprehend how anyone could be worth more than $1 per hour, so that was the standard for many years. You WOULD be paid immediatly at the end of the day, but only $1 per hour. That was fine with most of the drivers, although a bit of a joke among the locals.
Rosie had a little single car garage built using Avon earnings, to protect her beloved 50 Chevy.
Problem was that Rosie was already in her mid 80's and found it somewhat frightning to back out of her narrow little garage.
Rosie was always a problem solver, she called the carpenter back to install another overhead door in the rear of her little garage. Problem solved, open one to drive in and open the other to drive out . Worked fine, and good for a smile and laugh from her friends.
This post was edited by Jon Hagen at 16:37:36 03/10/14.
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