After 100 hours or so I developed an obsession – I had to find the most random, most peculiar or just plain WTF products on the shelves of Amazon. I was in search of Sasquatch, the four leaf clover of humorous items. There was no shortage of inspiration, and so I was diligent in keeping a list to share my findings with Lin during breaks and lunch. Yet nothing compares to the bin I found with a value pack of condoms, a pregnancy test and the book What to Expecting When You’re Expecting. No joke. And now I share them with...

It was finally beginning. My new lanyard was heavy with the weight of the plastic badges that hung down at my belly. It dug into my bare neck a little bit, but it was a dig of importance, a dig of belonging. I was inside at last, authorized, on the team. A metal octopus of conveyor belts curved and twisted above my head as I walked the Green Mile that first day. Kuh-click. Whir. Kuh-click. Whir. I looked up just in time to see a flash of yellow plastic whiz by. Clickity, clickity, clickity! Then back to kuh-click, whir. It was a yellow tote carrying products that someone had ordered across the long maze of the warehouse to the packers to be shipped. Shelving stretched out as far to my right as I could see and towered up to the rafters four-stories tall. Stunning. I couldn’t keep my mouth closed. I couldn’t stop looking all around. I felt like a bottle of shaken-up champagne. And when I shared a grin with Allison I’m sure she saw the bubbles dancing wildly in my eyes. I had to remind myself to pay attention. Not only was I supposed to be listening to the safety trainer via my earphones, but I needed to be sure to stay inside the 3-foot wide path marked by green tape on the floor. They call it the Green Mile because it may actually be a mile in length if you walk it from end to end – yes, the warehouse is that big. (We guestimate 6 Costco’s worth.) It marks the safe path for people to walk in when they need to travel from one area to another. In fact there’s so much tape on the warehouse floor that it’s an...