11-30-2021, 05:12 PM
I picked up a lot of work from random freight yards, truck stops and so on. Back then hitch hiking was legal just about everywhere and I enjoyed traveling coast to coast a lot. I unloaded everything from frozen bags of meat, produce..once unloaded watermelons one at a time, lumber, you name it. Picked crops in season, worked in scrap yards, trash trucks..all kinds of manual labor back then.
Trash back then was terrible. They had nothing but those old steel cans and one area I worked we had to carry them up and down driveways. The residents, god forbid never touched their own garbage..hilly rich area of town..
Man..that was a job that got you in shape really quick..lol Dragging a hundred pounds of trash up and down hills all day and running to keep up with the truck..
I laugh at our trash pickup guys now..almost everything is semi-automated on wheels. I joke with them saying when we were kids we didn't have wheels on trash cans.
I guess the big plastic cans on wheels came around the late 80s, early 90s..sooner in some areas, later in others.
Trash back then was terrible. They had nothing but those old steel cans and one area I worked we had to carry them up and down driveways. The residents, god forbid never touched their own garbage..hilly rich area of town..
Man..that was a job that got you in shape really quick..lol Dragging a hundred pounds of trash up and down hills all day and running to keep up with the truck..
I laugh at our trash pickup guys now..almost everything is semi-automated on wheels. I joke with them saying when we were kids we didn't have wheels on trash cans.
I guess the big plastic cans on wheels came around the late 80s, early 90s..sooner in some areas, later in others.
In the immortal words of my old man, "Wait'll you get to be my age!"
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse, but the one comfort we have is Cincinnati sounds worse. ~Oliver Wendal Holmes Sr.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse, but the one comfort we have is Cincinnati sounds worse. ~Oliver Wendal Holmes Sr.
