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re: Name something crazy your dad had you do growing up
Posted on 12/9/21 at 1:06 pm to CAD703X
Posted on 12/9/21 at 1:06 pm to CAD703X
Every summer my dad would order a truck load of sand to be dumped in our yard and instruct me to distribute the sand to the "low spots" in the yard. I'd spend the next couple days shoveling sand into a wheelbarrow and finding low spots and smoothing sand over them with a rake.
Somehow...there were always low spots every year.
Somehow...there were always low spots every year.
This post was edited on 12/9/21 at 1:08 pm
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Posted on 12/9/21 at 1:14 pm to SUB
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Every summer my dad would order a truck load of sand to be dumped in our yard and instruct me to distribute the sand to the "low spots" in the yard. I'd spend the next couple days shoveling sand into a wheelbarrow and finding low spots and smoothing sand over them with a rake.
Somehow...there were always low spots every
I never knew my brother posted on TD.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 1:30 pm to SUB
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Every summer my dad would order a truck load of sand to be dumped in our yard and instruct me to distribute the sand to the "low spots" in the yard. I'd spend the next couple days shoveling sand into a wheelbarrow and finding low spots and smoothing sand over them with a rake. Somehow...there were always low spots every year.
My dad was in this vein (vane? Not sure.)
I was woke up 30 minutes before sunrise to mow our 4 acres every Saturday until High School. Got some breaks in the winter months.
I mean EVERY Saturday. I grew up in West Texas so it’s not like it was lush and green and growing all there time.
One of my favorite things he made me do was dig a 250 foot ditch 2 feet deep by 3 wide so that he could run an irrigation line. With a single shovel. He never installed it. I’m fairly convinced he did that just so I didn’t sit around all summer.
Just a product of the 80s/early 90s. I don’t begrudge the man.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 2:09 pm to SUB
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Somehow...there were always low spots every year.
Because sand washes away. Your dad was a dumbass.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 2:20 pm to SUB
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Every summer my dad would order a truck load of sand to be dumped in our yard and instruct me to distribute the sand to the "low spots" in the yard. I'd spend the next couple days shoveling sand into a wheelbarrow and finding low spots and smoothing sand over them with a rake.
Evidently this was a popular job for kids. My grandfather, who was a ssgt in wwII, got a dump truck full of fill sand dumped at the front of the driveway. My job was to move it to the back yard(about 200’ away),wheelbarrow by wheelbarrow. After a week I had finally moved it all. The next week he had me move it again to another spot. Did this a few more times that summer. I had blisters on top of blisters.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 5:55 pm to SUB
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Every summer my dad would order a truck load of sand to be dumped in our yard and instruct me to distribute the sand to the "low spots" in the yard. I'd spend the next couple days shoveling sand into a wheelbarrow and finding low spots and smoothing sand over them with a rake.
My dad believed in keeping us on the end of a shovel as much as possible, and make any other household chore as hard as possible. He though if we were made to do a lot of manual labor we would go to college and get a office job. Worst ever was when he decided we needed to insulate the attic in South TX during the middle of August.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 11:34 pm to SUB
It was a 12 yard load of fill dirt (sand/clay) to move on a Saturday in 3rd grade. 2nd grade was helping muck out a foot of smelly mud in a friend's camp in Hackberry thanks to Hurricane Carla. We never used the camp, not once.
I can change points, condensor and plugs then adjust the timing with a timing light after numerous times holding the flashlight
I can change points, condensor and plugs then adjust the timing with a timing light after numerous times holding the flashlight
Posted on 12/9/21 at 11:38 pm to SUB
4rd grade my grandfather had me haul the wood in a wheelbarrow from his sawing up a old pecan tree downed by Hurricane Betsy. It was about a 300 yard trip. That being said, he used a one man crosscut tree saw about 6 feet long to cut it up at 66 years old, with arthritis and at most 5'6" tall and wiry
Posted on 12/10/21 at 5:27 pm to SUB
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Every summer my dad would order a truck load of sand to be dumped in our yard and instruct me to distribute the sand to the "low spots" in the yard. I'd spend the next couple days shoveling sand into a wheelbarrow and finding low spots and smoothing sand over them with a rake.
Somehow...there were always low spots every year
Pretty sure I just learned my brother's TD username
Posted on 12/12/21 at 10:36 pm to SUB
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Every summer my dad would order a truck load of sand to be dumped in our yard and instruct me to distribute the sand to the "low spots" in the yard. I'd spend the next couple days shoveling sand into a wheelbarrow and finding low spots and smoothing sand over them with a rake.
Somehow...there were always low spots every year.
My dad made me do something similar. He used to get free dirt from the city that was left over and they would dump it in our front yard. Every day after school, my brother and I would have to transport said dirt and "fill the low spots in the back yard". We literally had to put air in the wheelbarrow tire every single trip.
When I told my dad about the tire, he said "Son, when I was your age, I didn't have a wheelbarrow or a shovel, I had to move dirt with my bare hands". I also had a full time summer job every year from 14-17 making $100 a week. That's working every day except Sunday and I never worked less than 10 hours per day. My dad took half my pay and "deposited" in a separate account so I would have money when I graduated. So, in reality, I should have had around $600 or so and when I asked about the money when I graduated, he pissed and moaned and handed me $200.
Probably why I despise manual labor today.
Posted on 12/29/21 at 11:37 pm to SUB
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Every summer my dad would order a truck load of sand to be dumped in our yard and instruct me to distribute the sand to the "low spots" in the yard. I'd spend the next couple days shoveling sand into a wheelbarrow and finding low spots and smoothing sand over them with a rake.
Somehow...there were always low spots every year.
Did I write this under my alter and forget?
Actually, about the fourth time my dad did this shite, I told him to frick off. That pile of dirt sat in the backyard for several years. One day I saw my mom out there moving dirt around and I said frick that. So I went out there and started throwing shovels of dirt over my head in every direction. Then I kept running over the mound with the lawnmower until it reached an acceptable level.
The truth of the matter is much of the dirt was needed to fill in the ruts caused by the fricking dump truck that brought the dirt. Pissed me off to no end.
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