Sheldon Renaud was hired to play around on his phone most of last Wednesday. He sat and looked at Facebook, made a few comments, looked stuff up. Next to him sat a ham sandwich, with mustard.
“Out of sheer boredom, I ate that by 9:30 a.m.,” Renaud, of Iowa Falls, said. “So, I played some more on my phone and waited.”
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