(WSJ) How A Modern-Day Milkman Spends a Typical Morning

My first job at 13 was jumping in and out of a milk truck making deliveries. I told myself, “There is no way in God’s creation that I’m going to be a milkman when I grow up.”

I joined the army. Then, wouldn’t you know it, I married a girl whose dad was a milkman.

When he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, he said that if I brought his daughter and grandchildren back to Seattle, he’d give me the business. It beat the hell out of getting shot at. I’ve been driving this route for 20 years.

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