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Bucket of Steam
Unread 06-19-2011, 07:34 AM   #34
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On my first job in a shipyard when I had just turned 17, the lead man sent me to the tool hut to retrieve a bucket of fresh steam and a wood burning tip for the torch. Also later told me that one of the yard foreman was gay, and that I should never find myself alone with him anywhere in the ship yard. For the next week or so, every time I saw him, he was winking at me and blowing kisses. He was a big Mohiccan, and I had nightmares about that guy. I wouldn't even go into the outhouse for fear he'd follow me in! Obviously it was all a joke, and I reckon if it had been played on someone else and I'd have been in on it, I would have thought it was pretty funny as well. Turned out to be some of the best and talented guys I've ever worked with.
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