willshak wrote:
on 9/23/2009 5:10 PM (ET) HeyBub wrote the following:
RobertPatrick wrote:

"HeyBub" wrote in
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There was a notice on the door of my neighborhood Home Depot about a
week ago warning the Parking Lot Pedros to vamoose or dreadful things
would happen.

Went by there today and I could actually GET into the parking lot
without having to dodge anybody. Not a Pancho Bob Villa to be seen!

One of the staff, when asked, told me a couple of police Pablo
Wagons, and the message was received.

"Company-wide or just local?" I asked.

"Dunno" said the droid.

Anybody notice anything similar?




Have no idea what U R writing about.


Sorry. Everybody understands what I'm trying to say, that's why it's
so necessary to explain.

In my part of the country, literally twenty to fifty "undocumented
workers striving for a better life for their families back in the old
country" sometimes surround your car as you pull into the HD parking
lot. They are applying for any construction or repair job you might have.

In many ways I admire them: They are willing to work hard for
reasonable wages. They have enough confidence in their abilities to
risk a lot of time and energy to GET to the Home Depot parking lot all
the way from Patagonia or wherever.

On the other hand, they sometimes dent the fenders as they bounce off.

I never saw anyone, white, black, or other, hanging around my HD looking
for work.


Gotta be there more or less at dawn, when the contractors are picking up
the material for the day. (the small contractors, without the cash float
for an open account at a real supply yard.) Think of it as the grandson
of a Union hiring hall.

I've not seen it up north, but I did see it down in Louisiana. I have a
M-F day job, so unless I am down south on 'vacation', I'm not making
pre-breakfast supply runs.

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