Worked up a sweat today

I have a kind of a full time job, but because I like trucks, especially dump trucks, I drive a tri-axle occasionally for some friends. Today we were clearing out a city lot of about 3/4 acre that had been vacant for many years. The truck was getting loaded one time with stumps and next time with old asphalt. The loading takes awhile especially because the places that receive the loads want no garbage or bricks or big rocks. I am not expected to, but I like to help out when waiting for the truck to be loaded. So I was helping to pull out the trash, and trying to encourage their 18 year old laborer to work a little harder. He was prone to stopping for a drink or smoke or check his phone more than working. So when I came back after dumping a load the kid says he is riding with me to as far as I am taking the next load, where his dad would pick him up. He said he was sick, but he kept lighting up. When I got back again I apologized to my friend for pushing his laborer too hard and making him sick. We had a good laugh over it.

You BAD! ROFLMBO

Reminds me of my nephew from this summer. He was sentenced to labor on the farm as punishment for something. My sis dropped him off at about 7 on a Saturday, I had to run to town so I put him to work busting skids.

When I got back my brother had him unloading hay. Nephew claims he helped hay before(not our way though). Nephew was darn near ready to drop at half load (70 or so 50lb bales), We pushed him through two full loads(300 total bales). When I went back to town to help pa(noonish) he was out cold on the couch. It was a hot day so we took it easy that afternoon. Finished the day in the evening with a third load of hay.

On Sunday, got a 4th load up to unload.. About 20 bales in, the elevator broke. Got that fixed in ten minutes, kid was no to be found (turns out he was almost all the way across the field). He got NO MERCY on that load. I was on the wagon with him and made him unload EVERY bale, and when standing on the back of the wagon I TRIED on PURPOSE to knock him(on the front of the wagon) over with the bales. Before long we had him(nephew) crying. My brother called down from the mow, after a time of his complaining about being sick, "you aren't puking your guts out yet, get back to work"

That afternoon we put our "slave labor" on help loading. Got three loads done when his ma came back to get him. We gave him such a chewing over the rest of the weekend, he was thankful when we said he could go ... we'd finish the 4th load without him (he seemed undecided if he could go or had to help yet).

I bet it will take a long time till my nephew forgets that weekend.

And then you wonder why kids want to leave the farm.

He also forgot to mention the kid is four years old

Don't worry middle east refugees are on there way to fill in those jobs Americans don't want...

We used to offer "college prep" jobs to employees' kids who weren't sure they wanted to go to college. Put them in tight spots all summer with a 50# chipping gun wrecking out old hard refractory. Never saw one that wanted to go to work for us after the summer instead of starting college. They also had more respect for the way their fathers earned money for them to go to school on.