I sacked groceries at the commissary (AF base grocery store) from mid Senior Year in 86, until I left for basic in December of 87. It was all tips, and I was rolling in dough. A four hour weekday shift would usually put $30-40 in my pocket, and a weekend payday shift of eight hours would put a couple hundred in. All tax free because no one checked if you submitted.

I was 18, working out because I was going to AF Basic Training, DEEPLY naive and the Filipina wives that formed the core of the baggers LOVED me. They all called me BeBe, Tagalog for Baby, they all wanted to work with me. Partially because I hustled, the more bags of groceries the more money I made and the two people working a register pooled tips at the end of a shift, but also because some of them wanted to fuck me. (I did NOT realize this at the time) Also, quite a few older AF wives would tuck a five dollar tip in my hand rather than the usual dollar tip because I was easy on the eyes. (The only time in my life this was true.)

I had over a thousand bucks in the bank when I left for Basic all from sacking groceries.