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An adult novelty store employee
When her job working at a daycare became too stressful, Allison Ortego started looking for something a little more fun. Now, the Wichita senior gets paid for sitting behind a cash register surrounded by dildos and condoms and for helping people pick out vibrators.
Ortego works at Crilla's, 1026 West 23rd Street. Most of her job is helping people at the register, she says, but when people ask for a recommendation. Ortego knows what she's talking about. She says that her bosses didn't really give her much training about the products, but that she wouldn't have applied for the job if she didn't already know what most of the products in the store were.
The job's pretty easy, Ortego says, especially because she is not easily embarrassed and her family and friends aren't shocked by her job choice.
"I'm pretty knowledgeable about vibrators," Ortego says. "And I don't think someone who doesn't know about this stuff would even apply."
"My parents have known me all my life," she says. "They're fine with it. My grandparents are fine with it."
Photo Illustration by Becka Cremer
Photo Illustration by Becka Cremer
Naughty but nice: Cilla's employee Allison Ortego
knows her stuff when it comes to sex toys.
One time, though, when Ortego was visiting a friend who also worked at Crilla's, one of her professors was shopping at the store.
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"I hid," Ortego says. "He didn't see me."
green it! Take-out containers
The next time you consider asking for a doggie bag,ask your server what the containers are made of. Some restaurants around town, including Nice Café in the Casbah Market, 803 Massachusetts Street,offer environmentally friendly ways to take home leftover food.
Casey Millstein, co-owner of Nice Café and 2008 graduate,
says the cafe offers corn plastic biodegradable take-out containers. The containers are made of all-natural materials and can be composted. Toss them in a compost pile, Millstein says,
and in about nine months, they're gone.
Dinner tonight, lunch tomorrow. Ask your servers if eco-friendly options are available for leftovers, or bring your own to the restaurant.
The containers are available.
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container in your bag the next time you go out to eat. Many restaurants will also honor requests for aluminum foil to wrap leftovers. Then the foil can be rinsed and recycled.
even in small quantities, from World Centric (www.worldcentric.org).World Centric is based in California, though, so shipping on the products can be pricey. Millstein says.
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NEED EXTRA CASH?
Biocompostable containers aren't the only eco-friendly way to save your food. Consider stashing a Ziploc bag or other washable
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