They are digging up a little piece of sidewalk that is catty corner to Rite-Aid. This operation involves the back-hoe operator, 2 truck drivers, a guy sweeping and a Highway Flagger-guy. According to statistics that may exist, the occupation of Highway Flagger-guy is in the top 3 most dangerous occupations; right up there with Alaskan Crab fisherman and Mercury Taster. But what do you call a Highway Flagger-guy when they aren’t on a Highway? Is there such thing as Side-Street flagger-Guy? Do Highway Flagger-Guys start off as Cul-de-Sac Flagger-Guys? Are Cul-de-Sac Flagger-Guys included in the statistics?
There are little trash bins attached to some of the bus stop signs around here. They are cylindrical, about a foot in diameter and maybe 2 and a half feet deep. I saw some older lady rummaging through one. She was armpit deep in this thing. Unfortunately for us, she came up dry. Although she was wearing a face of disappointment and I am ignorant of her objectives, I reckon she was better off that way.
posted by Seabags @ 11:10 AM
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When I hung out with the great legendary BRETT, he would sometimes get up at 5am to wait in line for a job at LaborReady. That's like The Millionaires Club in Seattle, where people can work for a day and get paid in cash that same evening. He said that those flagger jobs were considered to be "a great ticket." Everyone loved those jobs because they didn't involve much hard labor. You just stand in the rain for 10 hours and wave traffic by. Compare that to digging a ditch with a shovel for 10 hours, or loading an unloading 100-lb bags of rice off a truck all day, and it doesn't sound so bad after all.
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