"What a Racket"

When I was a kid in Simons I had a good racket going. In the hot summer months the brickyard workers would start working in the early AM, 4:00AM to be exacted. Their first break was at 7:00AM, which was their breakfast break. At 6:00AM I would get my wagon, a wagon that I had made out of a wooded box, and start out of the house with a breakfast that my mom had made for my Pop and I, I would then go to some of the other worker's houses and pick up their breakfast's to be delivered to them. In every home that I would go in to pick up a lunch I would fine the lady of the house making tortillas as they listened to Maria Ellen Salinas play Mexican music on her radio show. I would eat a hot tortilla at every pick-up. After picking up the lunches I would dropped off the worker's breakfast's first and save my Pop's to the last so that I could have a hot breakfast of tacos and coffee with him.

It was a good little racket that allowed me to make money to go to the movie show and also gave me time to spend with Pops at his work at the brickyard.