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Lol Rerun, you bring back memories of a few months ago that I'd rather have forgotten... I thank you for that though, because the past few months have been dull... boring... and well "Wake up, food, computer, food, computer, bed" will have been my day, SO, I'll rather tell a true story of my previous jobsite some time in November last year.
Twas a hell-hot morning... just like every other morning, and I was dressed in long sleeved shirt upon long sleeved shirt, reason for that is that the nights up in the Northern Cape got so bloody cold you will be awoken by your own shivering... I skid you not, so due to the immense heat inside of the very humid and confined tent our boss provided us to sleep in for 2 months, I was already awoken on the wrong foot... or floor... by my phone's alarm. And guess who shows up?? None other than the WASTED beyond all recognition (I swear it was about 06:00 and this guy was good enough to be on WhenIWasDrunk) mr. Chippa (God knows what his real name was, he was too drunk to ever remember and we called him Chippa due to his obsession with little packets of chips called 'chippa'... go figure) He then came into our tent -mistake number one- and asked for money -mistake number two- when we told him politely (under the circumstances) to get out of the tent and either work for his money or not to ask us for anything, he turned around.... completely.... i.e facing us again... and said hi again as if he just walked into the tent and asked for glass bottles (Good greef the beggers and glass bottles there, I swear I walked down the street with 4 bottles once... they followed me like vultures, just waiting for one to drop) we then told him no again...
Mr Chippa then felt the need to ask for money... again... so it went on until finally one of my co-workers had enough and... well... 'escorted' him outside.
So that was the morning. Ok, moving on to the afternoon... the day went ok-ish, we pulled about half a stage maybe a full stage I can't remember (apologies, we were building a 70m cellphone tower and the parts are labelled in stages, each stage is about 4m long unless stated otherwise) and that being the..... ahem... MIDDLE OF SUMMER in the Northern Cape, it was about 42 degrees........ Celsius, no wind, no humidity... ok, got sunburned in about 15-20 minutes so we worked on because that would just add to the similarity between us and ripe tomatoes.
Now the crown on that cake was the food allowance that was given. we were given a total of R50.00 per person per day for food (which is the equivalent of $6.50...) that would've been ok, BUT seeing as we were really in the ass side of South Africa where the closest civilization is 3 hours drive away, lunch consisted of a single pie and a 1.25L soda. and even that was R25.00-R40.00 give or take, depending if you're eating yesterdays 'leather bits in gravy pie' or today's 'beef s*** in some dough.'
The evening -again, as soon as the sun goes down, you're pissing ice- we were all huddled up around the kettle on a gas burner to boil some water to make dinner, a tin of chicken with some 2minute noodles (also called Ramen apparently) That is IF you can afford it.
So no, my day (back then) was s***. Thank you for asking. NEXT!
Oh and P.S. krazyivanthedivine, Plastic bag + pink pistol + toilet = best hiding place for firearm.
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There's no snow in Maine....We call what you guys have "Frost".
, not like this 