re: Name something crazy your dad had you do growing up

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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.

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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.