Basketball Game Hot Chocolate

I worked for the BYU Traffic Office while I was an undergraduate student. I wrote parking tickets during the day. I also worked parking enforcement during BYU athletic and other special events (e.g., devotionals). 

During the two basketball seasons that I worked for the Traffic Office, I was assigned the VIP parking lot on the north side of the Marriott Center. I had to be in the parking lot three hours before game time to keep others from parking in the VIP parking lot closest to the Marriott Center. 

This assignment had several perks. 

1. I got to work extra hours. Normally, student workers at BYU could only work 20 hours per week. However, parking enforcement during the event was paid from a different BYU budget. Thus, I was able to work my 20 hours per week for my regular job plus, I would clock an extra 5-6 hours every basketball game. Annette and I needed every dime we could earn because we did not have much. I usually volunteered to pick up the traffic signs and parking lot barriers we distributed across campus for the games. This allowed me to get additional hours as well.
2. I got to meet the basketball players (the first season I worked was Shawn Bradley's freshman year at BYU before he left on his mission). I also got to meet important people who came to watch the basketball games including President Thomas S. Monson, Elder L. Tom Perry, Elder Neal A. Maxwell, and Senator Orrin Hatch. 
3. The weather for most of the basketball games was COLD. Thus, my boss at the traffic office would purchase several gallons of hot chocolate that he brought around in his truck for me and the other officers who were working parking enforcement to drink so we could stay warm. 

After the first game when we had hot chocolate, I saw my boss dumping the remaining hot chocolate out on the ground. I was surprised. He said they had no place to store the hot chocolate. So the next game, I brought several empty, one-gallon milk bottles. When the game was over, I poured the extra hot chocolate into the milk jugs. Depending on the temperature (colder days had less leftover hot chocolate), I was able to bring home 3 to 5 gallons of chocolate milk. 

Annette and I would drink chocolate milk for every meal between games. It helped us save on buying milk to drink with our regular groceries.