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After the store front I worked at a house near boss Miscellaneous's place, because I remember the buyers of the house under construction came out and were complaining about the shoddy work and the unqualified workers like me, and two of his best carpenters quit to start their own business. O Miscellaneous whined about that.
In another place I helped lay in hardwood flooring that was so warped, Miscellaneous got it at a cheap price, that it was impossible to fit all of it tightly together and the cracks had to be filled with sawdust. Again the buyers were not happy.
And I worked at a house on a channel of water. I remember carrying roofing shingles up the ladder onto the roof. One of the workers twenties journeyman guy, who loved to yell at us laborers,
"Well Don't just stand around like a Pelican eating sh---t ! Get to work !", told me he wanted to go home and was going to jump off the roof, and pretend he had fallen, and wanted me to yell - he fell off the roof he fell ... Well I was not convinced so he just went home.
Young teenage girls came around very summertime catty and liked to tease the men - who called them jail bait. One of the workers told me he worked on road crew as flag man and stopped a white Ford TBird with a blond woman driving. She had no pants on naked waist down and he about fell on his nose he claimed. Painters it was said were all alcoholics, the lead in the paint it was thought or the fumes made them thirsty.
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