One brick at a time.

[sarettah]

So, I'm working in my yard today, cleaning up the mess I made yesterday. I had cut a bunch of bushes down and a tree or three, so today I had to get it all cut up and piled neatly so I can get it up into the pickup.

Anyway, I don't know about any of you, but when I am doing mindless work my mind wanders all over the place. Today I was recalling 1982, right after I got out of the military. I had gone to work for a wholesale liquor company and when the Kansas City warehouse closed I transferred out to West Texas as office and warehouse manager for one of the branches. In Texas I became pretty tight with both the office and warehouse crew. The office was 3 young women, quite nice and the warehouse were 8 or so Tex Mex guys. There was Hippy, the warehouse foreman. Henry, an older guy that got diagnosed with Leukemia and died while I was there, Gordo, Ruben and several other guys, some who I can picture but no longer bring the name to mind.

There was one in particular, Ruben's cousin. He was building a house one cinder block at a time.

When I first got there in fall '82 he had one layer of cinder blocks laid out in the base shape of the house. When I left, in Fall of '83 he was putting the roof on the place.

Each payday he would buy however many cinder blocks he could work into the budget that payday. Sometimes it was 5 or 10 and sometimes it was only one and I know there were several paydays where for one reason or another he couldn't afford any.

In the space of less than 2 years, on a pretty meager salary, he had managed to build himself a house, one brick at a time.

There's something to be learned there.

[Rcourt64]

Originally Posted by sarettah

There's something to be learned there.

He doesn't like log cabins? ...

[sarettah]

Did anyone else hear something? I'm not sure but I thought I heard something. Well, maybe not. Guess I'm just starting to hear shit in my old age.

[softball]

no, I think a tree fell in the woods

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by rhetorical

no, I think a tree fell in the woods

Or maybe a brick fell on a head, I don't know.

[Rcourt64]

Originally Posted by sarettah

Or maybe a brick fell on a head, I don't know.

The moral of your post was your attempt of trying to divulging that your old work buddy slapped a brick on your head and that is in part the reason you being the way you are today.

Ok, I get it know!

I didn't know Oprano was offering psychiatric help now also.

[sarettah]

Damn, there it was again. Did the rest of you guys here that. Like an annoying little buzz, maybe a misquito, or a fly or one of those other annoying pests.

[softball]

didn't hear a thing.