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To: melinda abplanalp who wrote (43484)	12/11/1999 8:38:00 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 71178

<<Ya but can you paint? eom>> He can paint but I can retail your threads.

To: melinda abplanalp who wrote (43484)	12/11/1999 9:12:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

Mel, can I paint? here's a funny Story: When I was about 16 I worked in the summer painting. This one particular job was painting the outside windows of a 15 story apartment complex in D.C. We would haul these 50 pound bags of cement to the roof for weight, then hook a rope swinging seat under the bags and drop down off the roof, one can of paint in hand, bouncing back and forth from window to window. Needless to say, I got quite a few eye fulls of naked women residents! After a few days of seeing me there, a couple of ladies would put on a pretty decent strip show. :-) Did the same type of painting off a water tower once, in the days before spray devices. We had to roll every single inch of that water tower by hand! Ahhh, the indestructible youth days. I don't believe it even occurred to me that it might be dangerous. I wonder whether it was even legal? That wasn't the hardest job I ever did though. The toughest job was tobacco farming! 4am till 9pm in the sweltering heat with a bunch of migrant farmers near the bay bridge in Maryland. That was the most backbreaking work I've ever done. You would walk down these huge rows of plants with a machette, pull the plant to one side, then slice the truck near the bottom. After each row, you grabbed a long stick with a sort of needle attached to the end, and jammed the plants in as you collected them. What a pain! The migrant workers made me look like a woose! This calls for a new DAR poll. What was the worst job you ever had? Michael