“During my campaign for governor, I decided to spend a day every few weeks doing the jobs of other people in Massachusetts. Among other jobs, I cooked sausages at Fenway Park, worked on asphalt paving crew, stacked bales of hay on a farm, volunteered in an emergency room, served food at a nursing home, and worked as a child-care assistant. I’m often asked which was the hardest job – it’s child care, by a mile.”
“One day I gathered trash as a garbage collector. I stood on that little platform at the back of the truck, holding on as the driver navigated his way through the narrow streets of Boston. As we pulled up to traffic lights, I noticed that the shoppers and businesspeople who were standing only a few feet from me didn’t even see me. It was as if I was invisible. Perhaps it was because a lot of us don’t think garbage men are worthy of notice; I disagree – anyone who works that hard deserves our respect. – I wasn’t a particularly good garbage collector: at one point, after filling the trough at the back of the truck, I pulled the wrong hydraulic lever. Instead of pushing the load into the truck, I dumped it onto the street. Maybe the suits didn’t notice me, but the guys at the construction site sure did…”
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Maybe I’m just completely off-my-rocker paranoid, but I find it odd that we have the whole Richard Hayes thing on one hand, then it comes to light that Romney just happens to have made an effort to do that exact job.
Now he just has time to watch Mike Rowe on Dirty Jobs.
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/dirty-jobs/
Good one I had heard that but didn’t know if it was just–blah blah don’t know what to think anymore.
This campaign has gotten like doing the limbo— how low can it go??????
by the way– have ya’ll heard there’s going to be Presidential debates tom. nite.? I don’t know about any of ya’ll but I’m sick and tired of hearing what Romney has to do — and not a thing about what Obama has to do— guess he’s all set — at least with his snarky comments about it. Hope he’s shinning up his I’m the One halo–yannow—? I’m in a quandary can I stand to watch or do I have to watch sound bites on how great the One is? Yannow— I think I’ll celebrate my Birthday instead— yup– made er another year!!!
geezerette Happy Birthday!
Ditto!! :-D
Romney campaign jobs:
Maybe this time Romney should just do day jobs at filling stations pumping gas (surely there’s still some full service ones somewhere besides Oregon); while he’s pumping, he can tell people how much gas has gone up under Captain Zero, and how much more it’s likely to go up if Zero gets another term. If Romney’s campaign underwrote the price and pumped it at $1.84/gal, they would surely have a crowd.
There’s some pre-2008 election soundbites out there somewhere of Zero saying it would be good if gas hit $10/gal (possibly for environmental reasons) — Romney ought to do a campaign TV ad with himself pumping gas and telling people it used to be $1.84, but now it’s whatever it is, interleaved with Zero’s $10 sound bite.
Happy birthday, Geezerette! Hope you get all you wished for!
It’s been down to the dog issue for months. Which is worse? Placing a dog in a carrier on the luggage rack, or having it for dinner?
Happy Birthday Geezerette!
Hopefully, he’ll finish taking out the trash in November.
Heeeere ya go, Marine:
^ 11: YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!