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Great Story Malone!!

Great story! It is good to hear from someone who remembers where he comes from. We are all human beings and deserve respect no matter what our job might be.

Malone,

I would have been the first to reply but I just pulled into st. louis.

Great story. Ill never forget my first day at enterprise rent a car back in college when I pulled in and saw the guy who runs rentals for the entire state out washing a car for a customer. The CEO of southwsest airlines still hands out peanuts when he flies. If you learn anything in this world it is that there is no job to small and it pays to lead by example.

agree with everything that has been said on the thread. I told my friend i wanted to start a custom home building business and he laughed and told I had better run it and not do any work. I was truely offended. i love building and have built two homes for habitat for humanity from the ground up being the leader of the build.
You are in a great line of work, i find it to be probably the most enjoyable out there.

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To carify i was offended because with everything he said he implied that i thought i was above the people that would be doing a job like framing the house.

Great story Malone! Thanks for sharing it. Never forget the blessing you also posses, the blessing to realize that you are blessed for those days! Did that make sense? Some folks are truely blessed, but only end up miserable because they lack the foresight, or maybe the insight to see it!

Thanks for inspiration on a beautiful Friday!
Paul

That's a terrific story Malone. It made me think of my next door neighbor back on "Lawn Guyland." He owns a tree service and was my first boss. Never one to give the impression of being better than the crew, he was always pulling pranks on us and pitching in as much as anyone. At 59 yrs old he still climbs :duh:

Gentlemen like you make it fun to go to work!

Well said Malone, that same bond is alive and well among our fighting men and women in Iraq today as they depend on each other at the unit level. Regards

Great story, Malone. My father runs a local construction company, every year we throw all the guys a christmas party at his house. He goes all out to give these guys a great night - smoked salmon, beef tenderloin, fresh seafood, and whatever they want to drink. Its a great feeling to give some hard working men somthing to remember during the holidays.

I've always been amazed at people who are very handy, and construction workers have always been working class heroes of mine. I mean, construction workers make EVERYTHING, and I sure as heck can't figure out how they do it, but bang, zoom, a house goes up, ba da bing, ba da boom, an office tower goes up. Rooms, floors, running water, electricity, toilets work, elevators move.

I can push, pull, dig, slam, bang, lift, carry, and even paint with a brush well, but don't bother putting a drill in my hand when it's plugged in. And I know I've told the story about the time me and a few big name comedians sold out a 3,000 seat facility in Dutchess County. They did their standup routines and I screwed in sheet rock. There were big screens which showed the up close part of what I was doing to those in the cheap seats. I got the biggest laughs by far. To this day, all those big name comedians will go on Leno, Letterman, you name it and they all deny ever being in Dutchess County, let alone doing that show!!!

None of them want to admit that an inept fool who couldn't properly screw in sheet rock with a gun pointed at his head beat the world's most famous comedians at getting laughs. Oh yeah, I follow orders much better than I give them. Just give me some work, tell me what and how to do it, and I'll be okay.

Just don't hand me a drill when it's plugged in.

An' as fer dis malone guy, da con-STRUCK-shin guyz always liked him big time. He smokes cigahz, he's one uh da regler guyz, all us yoonyun woikiz, we likes him. :thumbsup:

Ummmm, boss, ya might wanna check wit' B.B. Mann & Co. 'bout postin' pitchas o' uhhhhh, . . .

peepuhls Richids.

Just a cahful t'awt dere, boss.

:dunno: :dunno: :dunno:

ahh the good old roach coach. I used to live off that thing when i was at my last job. Everyone always looked foward to its arrival.

malone said:

Yes, one young 21 year old kid- pissed 17 feet 4 1/2 inches.

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That lad is under some serious pressure....pun intended.