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Faith · « **Reply #61680 on:** June 03, 2025, 07:52:04 pm »

The way the crossings are here, you would have to intentionally drive around it….and people do. What scares the shit out of me are these country roads. You can drive for miles and there’s nothing. So these guys in their truck are going a hundred. Sometimes there’s a crossroad just as desolate and once in a blue moon, like lightning striking twice, two guided missiles going a hundred reach the same point on the Earths surface at precisely the same moment and it’s like artillery. Everyone dies and the vehicles aren’t even recognizable.

Faith · « **Reply #61681 on:** June 03, 2025, 07:53:38 pm »

Quote from: Teeman on June 03, 2025, 07:49:52 pm

Yes. It took the back off like a sardine can and spun me around into a fire hydrant. When i was crossing the tracks I saw that Conrail bumper right next to me. All I could do is punch the gas and try to beat it.

I t was close to my home so I walked back to my house and got my other car (wife's). Loaded my tools and went to the job site. The boss gave me a hard time for being late. I told him I got hit by a train. He said don't get smart with me.

Wow. When I was a kid, if a single raindrop fell, we all threw our hammers on the ground and went to the bar.

Faith · « **Reply #61682 on:** June 03, 2025, 07:55:34 pm »

That was fun. Making 5 bucks an hour, blowing it over the weekend with just enough left for gas.

Faith · « **Reply #61683 on:** June 03, 2025, 08:01:21 pm »

Working in our family shop was like being in hell. It was in the worst ghetto; razor wire, cages over the windows. Like a war zone. Inside the building was worse. It was so miserable that at lunch, everyone, even the managers would rush down to the cop bar on the corner and slam as much liquor as possible in 29 minutes and then rush back and jump on the presses or saws. It was all OSHA approved.
What a miserable place to waste a life.

Teeman · « **Reply #61684 on:** June 03, 2025, 08:02:23 pm »

Quote from: Faith on June 03, 2025, 07:53:38 pm

Wow. When I was a kid, if a single raindrop fell, we all threw our hammers on the ground and went to the bar.

I don't remember working in the rain. Most of the jobs were indoor renovations. There were additions. There wasn't much you could do in the rain.

I got my first dishwasher at a kitchen reno. The woman gave me her old one. A role up to the sink and attach it to the faucet type that opened up at the top.

Faith · « **Reply #61685 on:** June 03, 2025, 08:04:59 pm »

I second guessed walking away from that every day of my life until about a month ago when my kid was accepted to college. I knew for certain then that I made the right choice. If I had stayed it would have ruined all of us the way it ruined my family.

Faith · « **Reply #61686 on:** June 03, 2025, 08:07:31 pm »

Quote from: Teeman on June 03, 2025, 08:02:23 pm

I don't remember working in the rain. Most of the jobs were indoor renovations. There were additions. There wasn't much you could do in the rain.

I got my first dishwasher at a kitchen reno. The woman gave me here old one. A role up to the sink and attach it to the faucet type that opened up at the top.

I was on a roughing crew for a couple summers when I was in my 20’s- oddly for the guy in the Econoline. It was a lot of fun - at work and after. Back in the days when my only responsibilities were feeding the dog and brushing my teeth.

Teeman · « **Reply #61687 on:** June 03, 2025, 08:09:11 pm »

Quote from: Faith on June 03, 2025, 08:07:31 pm

I was on a roughing crew for a couple summers when I was in my 20’s- oddly for the guy in the Econoline. It was a lot of fun - at work and after. Back in the days when my only responsibilities were feeding the dog and brushing my teeth.

Those were the days. Not complicated.

Waco 1954 · « **Reply #61688 on:** June 03, 2025, 08:13:11 pm »

Have to go to Duke Medical at the University for surgery to get my eye fixed... Next week I have to get stitches out of my right arm... Then a colonoscopy.... Then I have to have prostate surgery...

Teeman · « **Reply #61689 on:** June 03, 2025, 08:14:21 pm »

Quote from: Waco 1954 on June 03, 2025, 08:13:11 pm

Have to go to Duke Medical at the University for surgery to get my eye fixed... Next week I have to get stitches out of my right arm... Then a colonoscopy.... Then I have to have prostate surgery...

You sure know how to have a good time.

Faith · « **Reply #61690 on:** June 03, 2025, 08:16:01 pm »

That guy was a real friend. He died. He had a real red face, like he had high blood pressure or something. One day when we were about 45, he left for work but didn’t even make it to his car. He dropped dead from some kind of aneurysm in his head. He is the only person I know that died that I really miss. Out of all our friends, he didn’t go to college after high school. I worked for him on and off for years. Him and me built out that cafe I had. I’m glad as shit I learned all that from him because it has been my most marketable skill.

Teeman · « **Reply #61691 on:** June 03, 2025, 08:21:15 pm »

Quote from: Faith on June 03, 2025, 08:16:01 pm

That guy was a real friend. He died. He had a real red face, like he had high blood pressure or something. One day when we were about 45, he left for work but didn’t even make it to his car. He dropped dead from some kind of aneurysm in his head. He is the only person I know that died that I really miss. Out of all our friends, he didn’t go to college after high school. I worked for him on and off for years. Him and me built out that cafe I had. I’m glad as shit I learned all that from him because it has been my most marketable skill.

You kind of remind me of my mentor in carpentry. (Posted photo) His name was John Mocci. That was back in the day when you morticed a door for a hinge with a hammer and chisel. He had recently passed away also.

Faith · « **Reply #61692 on:** June 03, 2025, 08:24:08 pm »

My reign as the backsplash king had a peculiar ending. I make it sound like Covid put me out of business because it sounds markedly more noble than the disgraceful truth. I actually was fired….angrily I might add, the night before the Pandemic hit. It was seamless timing. I take credit for planning it that way, even though I didn’t. I guess they couldn’t handle all of my unreasonable demands and refusal to do bathrooms or work anywhere where there might be traffic. After all, I’m a delicate genius, an artisan…

CCL · « **Reply #61693 on:** June 03, 2025, 08:27:57 pm »

Quote from: Waco 1954 on June 03, 2025, 06:42:33 pm

Europeans don't have the balls to fight Rhode Island. There will be no war. China's not going to attack their biggest customer and kill the cash cow. They will do what they do best which is threaten. They have like 400 nukes we have 5500 nukes. That math don't add up for China.

China operates through industrial sabotage not direct fighting. They know they cannot militarily defeat the U.S. so they will pull every dirty truck.

Faith · « **Reply #61694 on:** June 03, 2025, 08:33:48 pm »

Carpentry was always a side hustle until maybe the last 10 years. But my wife also started working again after the kid was older. It would be nearly impossible to make it solely on that without two incomes. Medical is the big kahuna. There’s no way around it and it sucks.

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