By David Abdel

As a young boy growing up, one of the first “jobs” I had was at the grocery store. Technically a volunteer position, it still paid. It was bagging groceries. The store didn’t hire children to bag groceries, but they did allow kids to hang at the end of the checkout line and offer to bag customers’ groceries for them. I was quite good at it, from watching my mother bag our groceries. See, she never allowed someone else to do it, for two reasons. One, she was ...