05-06-2016, 08:40 AM
(05-05-2016, 05:43 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Oh wow...I actually have a little story about that place. Before I joined the Army in 2005, I used to work temp jobs through Labor Ready. One day they sent us out to that cemetery to supposedly do some concrete work. But it turned out we were actually supposed to help demolish a mausoleum and the folks at Labor Ready sent us there with the wrong boots and equipment.
Anyways, I wound up stepping backwards and I stepped right on a carpenter nail that went plumb through my boot into my foot. Then I took another step sideways and stepped onto another nail that went into my other foot. Despite the pain I wound up finishing my shift and even volunteered to work 2nd shift somewhere else after signing a waiver.
About halfway through that shift I had to go home as I couldn't walk anymore. I wound up having to see a foot specialist and my ship date for basic training had to be moved back a month. I didn't really mind that too much though, as it allowed me to watch the Bengals first playoff game in 14 years.
I love the happy ending of that story. And I love that you owe me a nickel! How could you mistake MOG cemetery for Highlands? Next you will be mixing up Herb and Thelma's and The Anchor Grill!
Cheers brother! You can pay the nickel in one payment or five easy installments of one cent each.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
