Leslie Hardman:  

Well, I don't know if anybody I know will be reading this, but here goes: After HS, I just worked a bunch of different jobs...some of them quite unusual....none that I particularly liked. A few of them were: Working as a carhop at the A & W Root Beer Drive-In in Grove City and also, The Burger Boy Mainliner out on Livingston Ave., both in 1966. Working at Nicklaus Machine, running a turret lathe and milling machine (I was making washers for helicopters used in the Vietnam War and the owner was my boyfriend, who ended up being my second husband!) Working as a file clerk at NAPA off Dublin Road. Working in the daytime, running the Q-Stik Pool Hall on Harrisburg Pk. and Ransburg Ave. I also got hired for, but changed my mind about, driving a Catering Queen truck (I could barely touch the pedals) and at a gas station pumping gas!!! These are just a FEW of the jobs I had. At 21 1/2, being pressured by my dad to "get married and get your own place", I got married to someone I shouldn't have, had my first son Mike, in 1969, and divorced, all in short order. I had already been dating a guy before all of that for a couple of years (Roger, the guy who owned the machine shop, above) and we had broken up, but after my divorce, I started seeing Roger again...we eventually married, after 6 years of going together,total, moved to Clintonville in the northend and we had a son, Jeremy. He also legally adopted Mike. After 8 years of marriage, we parted ways as friends, when I was 33 and I eventually met and married my current husband, Tommy, whom I have been married to for 27 years. The third time IS a charm! Together, we had two daughters when I was 36 and 38. So I now have a family from 39-24 years old! I also have nine grandchildren, 3 boys and 6 girls from ages 11 years - 1 year. I never worked outside of my ho...Expand for more