"If you have to do something, you might as well get good at it" department:
Michiana has something to brag about, it's home to the best grocery bagger in the country.
Martin's employee and 19-year old Kyle Perry of Osceola beat out thousands of competitors to be named the best.
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"At first I couldn't really believe it and then I looked down in the crowd and saw my parents and everyone cheering for me. I didn't even know what to do," Kyle said.
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Kyle won $10,000 and planned to use some of that money to buy new tires.
If only I'd applied myself in some of my earlier jobs -- become the best burger flipper at McDonald's, the best lumber stacker at Wickes, the best poop scooper at the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo -- and then gone on to national competition, who knows where I might be today? My parents would have been proud of me, and I could have had new tires, too.
Wish we had an award winner at some of the gorcery stores I visit, where the baggers seem to be space-and-volume challenged. They're forever stuffing most of my groceries into a couple of bags, filling them so full they can barely be lifted, and putting one or two things each in 10 other bags.
