"Bruce L. Bergman (munged human readable)"
on Sun, 13 Nov 2011 07:57:29 -0800
typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

We offer that all the time to our customers, especially ones that
already have a full-time grounds crew on regular payroll that is used
to fixing the sprinklers and planting trees - and one Summer Camp
where the older campers volunteer to make the place better for the
next generation, rather than just make macrame keychains...

We'll mark the path, let them dig the trench, then we'll come drop in
the electrical conduits and run the wire, they back-fill.

All of a sudden the bill drops like a rock, because they aren't paying
me (or my Assistant who isn't a Spring Chicken anymore either) to dig
a trench. And frankly, that's not on the top of either of our Fun
Things To Do lists - we like finding and fixing.

And it does seem to be one of those things that you can brag about
later. As in "Oh yeah, we dug trenches when I was at summer camp ..."

I was doing that one summer (the digging) when my friend the
Doctor told of digging a ditch at home in Virginia, when he was 17.
His pappy rode up on a horse and stopped, said"Charles, there is two
sorts of work in this world. What you are doing, and what I am doing.
And believe you me, this pays a whole lot better,too." and rode off.

tschus
pyotr

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