“I was 14 years old when I got my first job washing dishes on a floating restaurant just a quick bike ride away from my home on the banks of the Ohio River. It was a good job to have as my first and it kicked off a long career in the arts of dirty dish sanitation. I could come to work as dirty as I wanted to, feed the ducks, and take long breaks staring at the river just dreaming about the day I might cut the old boat loose and set off on a real adventure. That dream was cut short when she sprung a leak and sank during a lunch rush. Everyone survived to tell the tale. Yo-ho, yo-ho a dishwashers life for me!” - Mike Oberst
