The best part of the zoot suit was the silk gloves we had to wear underneath the latex ones. I started calling them my “sexies.”
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We got to work with a LOT of Acetone. As a precaution, they required us to wear respirators. Some didn’t Clearly, they had no brain cells to kill anyway, so no biggie. I wore mine religiously, but I’m pretty sure[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bubba represents all the IDIOTS we worked with. We were all young, but some of them were young and stupid. Since we were required to write our names on our hardhats, I joked that I was going to write Bubba,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
90% of the time, my job was to go into a big room ,full of electrical equipment, and pour canned dirt on the dusty floor. Next, I had to sweep up said dirt. Finally, I had to mop it up. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My very first day, my friend and I were assigned to go into a small room and vacuum water out of the concrete. It took all day. I really enjoyed the bilingual danger signs, “Peligro Alto Voltage.”
One of the long lasting lessons from working construction cleanup was how to braid extension cords. I still do it.
We made a ton of cash working all the overtime, but it sucked going to work all day every day. Our boss Larry was a complete idiot. Like clockwork, every Friday, we would ask if we had to work Saturday,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Meanwhile, back in civilization, my best friend was working at a summer job. He convinced me to come down and work with him. The only hitch was that I didn’t own a car. So, my uncle had to drive me[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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