Barnsey never got a look in here..
My lot are a bit on the slack side, theres plenty of drinking and sleeping.
But they work pretty hard here... if its a labour job. They are pulling down the house next door. Houses here are litterally wall to wall. theres no yard, not usually. Certainly not in my street. They collapsed this 3 storey house in on itself. Using one jackhammer for the concrete, and about 7 hand hammers.
The work crew was 3 older blokes and about 5 young boys, aged 15 - 20 I'd say. They worked all day, and rested a little, then did shift work through the night, carrying baskets of bricks and rubble on their heads, and carting them out to a large skip bin out the front.
At night, if they werent working, they slept on little thin bamboo or cane mats, outside in the alley (which is only a metre and a half wide) in front of the house they were working on. I had to wake them up in the morning to get past them on my way to the gym.
And not a single barnsey tune to keep the morale.
Actually, that house blocked out a lot of sun, I'm on the 2nd floor myself, but that house is 3 storeys high. Now its gone I have a pretty clear view of the sky when I wake up and walk out onto the balcony. Rather nice. Its just a big empty gap in the alley now.
More on working people. I ride down Kim Ma st, on my way to work. Its a pretty broad street, with a wide nature strip of grass and trees in the middle. Yesterday, they were cutting the grass. 5 old ladies, squatting down in a row, with large scissors in their hands! And a young boy following behind with a cane broom and a plastic garbage bag.
What I will spend on breakfast this morning, is probably more than some folks will earn in a week, here. I cant blame them for people trying to rip me off 100% of the time.
But they work pretty hard here... if its a labour job. They are pulling down the house next door. Houses here are litterally wall to wall. theres no yard, not usually. Certainly not in my street. They collapsed this 3 storey house in on itself. Using one jackhammer for the concrete, and about 7 hand hammers.
The work crew was 3 older blokes and about 5 young boys, aged 15 - 20 I'd say. They worked all day, and rested a little, then did shift work through the night, carrying baskets of bricks and rubble on their heads, and carting them out to a large skip bin out the front.
At night, if they werent working, they slept on little thin bamboo or cane mats, outside in the alley (which is only a metre and a half wide) in front of the house they were working on. I had to wake them up in the morning to get past them on my way to the gym.
And not a single barnsey tune to keep the morale.
Actually, that house blocked out a lot of sun, I'm on the 2nd floor myself, but that house is 3 storeys high. Now its gone I have a pretty clear view of the sky when I wake up and walk out onto the balcony. Rather nice. Its just a big empty gap in the alley now.
More on working people. I ride down Kim Ma st, on my way to work. Its a pretty broad street, with a wide nature strip of grass and trees in the middle. Yesterday, they were cutting the grass. 5 old ladies, squatting down in a row, with large scissors in their hands! And a young boy following behind with a cane broom and a plastic garbage bag.
What I will spend on breakfast this morning, is probably more than some folks will earn in a week, here. I cant blame them for people trying to rip me off 100% of the time.
posted by Pseudomys at 6:29 PM
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