It was funny as hell.
I have a cousin that used to install interstate signs such as gasoline station signs. He had dug a huge hole with a backhoe and had been cutting reinforcing steel with a cutting torch. He had an assistant not overly bright.
Getting ready for a big concrete placement he had to make a material run. Left marked 3/4 inch plywood (form material) and instructions for assistant to cut the plywood as marked.
Upon his return he saw that smoke was covering the work area. Inspecting further he found the dumb ass assistant trying to cut the plywood with a cutting torch.
It do happen.
Yeah... and there are more of them out there than is comfortable to think on.
We've seen our share over the years of hiring young men to help with the heavier work of the dsiry fsrm. Generally, they were high school kids who needed the cash, but we had several Amish teens as well over the years.
At least one of the Englisch kids was functionally illiterate (at 17, and pulling acceptable grades as a junior... But he needed me to read his chore list to him?!). And a couple of the Amish kids weren't any better, with the added "bonus" of them speaking Deutsch as their first language. And then there were the cultural issues...
Which led to hubby coming in from evening chores with a very puzzled look on his face. He had been milking when the phone rang. He asked Andy (the current Amish hired man) to answer it. A minute later, Andy trots down to him and tells him the call is for hubby. Hubby jogs down to the end of the barn, to find the phone securely hung on its hook, and (naturally) no one on the other end.
He goes back and asks Andy, "didn't you say I had a phone call?" Andy says yes, they wanted to talk to him. Hubby asks, "er... so... why did you hang the phone up?"
Andy says, in total seriousness, "I just put it back where I found it!"
Summerthyme (this was before the smart phone era... we never did figure out who had gotten hung up on!)
