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AI: And then what about your, the customers there at the store? I imagine, did you helped out and work in the store as you were getting older?

LK: I think I worked, helped in the grocery store from quite a young age. I used to love being behind the candy counter and so -- I was pretty young then. But I was actually helping customers and making change and things by, by the time I was eleven or twelve.

AI: And what kind of treatment did you get from your customers, did they just take it in stride that here you were waiting on them or...

LK: I guess they did, after they got used to the fact that I was serious. They used to pat me on the head and say, "You're a nice girl," and this that, but they finally started taking it serious and realizing that all of us children helped in the grocery store. My older brother and sisters did.

AI: Right. Well, and then I think when we were speaking earlier, you had mentioned a little bit about that at that time, a number of stores made deliveries and that your store did that.

LK: Yeah, my dad used us to do those deliveries to the apartment houses in the area. And I, I especially remember going on bikes and going down to Lake Union. A lot of the people in that area were Norwegian fishermen. They used to request deliveries and we'd go because sometimes we get a nickel for a tip. [Laughs]

AI: Oh, uh-huh.

LK: We'd use a bike and put their groceries on the basket, and go down.

AI: Ride down there, deliver.

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