One of Jon's company's customers runs an ice cream sales business. He has a few vans and has a concession at a number of big events around the area. Jon volunteered me and Bridie to help him when he was desperate for staff.
The day of our first 'volunteer' work came and Jon drove us to this country fair thing. He introduced us to Pete then left us for the day. Pete showed us how everything worked, let us practice filling the cones a couple of times, gave us each a white coat and then told us that he'd be back to check-up on us in a couple of hours.
We were both in the back of the van and Bridie looked at me and said,
"Well, I guess we'd better get ready for our hard day's work."
With that she whipped of her dress and stood there in just her shoes. I've never been out done by Bridie before and this wasn't going to be the first time so off came my dress as well.
We picked up the white coats and looked at them. They were big, and short. We decided that they were designed as jackets for large men. Bridie took the smaller of the two and I had the other one. They both had four buttons down the front, but two of the ones on mine were missing. We looked stupid, but 'what the hell', we were only selling ice cream.