My grandmother worked in the store, and she said, "Son, I'm getting
ready to retire. I'm tired. We're losing the pharmacy." Okay. I was
going like, I don't know where I fit into all this. So I came home on a
visit, and they said we need you here. I said well, I'm not a
pharmacist. I mean, I've worked in the store all my life. I know
everything to know including how to fill prescriptions what have you,
but so I said, "What good can I do?" "We need you here." So I went back
to Detroit I guess it was about five or six months later I said well,
she kept calling me. "We need you here." So I said, "Well, my
grandmother raised me. She did everything in the world for me. I'll go
back home and see what I can do." Sure enough we had a pharmacist that
had been here forever, and he resigned to go to West Side Urban, and my
grandmother resigned, I mean, not resigned, retired. So and left my aunt
and two clerks. So I came
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don't know what I can do, but I'm here." Then when she said how much she
could pay me, I was going like I made a mistake
[Laughter] because 1975 I was earning $19,000 a year, which
was real good money in 1975, and I came to Savannah and I started
earning $12,000. But she kept saying the benefits, the perks, okay.