Posted by Paul in MN on January 25, 2010 at 19:56:49 from (71.210.145.3):
In Reply to: Re: BUYING A TRACTOR posted by BDT in Minnesota on January 25, 2010 at 17:01:51:
Naw, never did learn to read, and besides they wrote those AC manuals in Milwaukee in a tavern down next to the AC factory in West Allis. And even though I was a student in the Milwaukee schools at that time, readin wasn't one of the things they taught. Survival skills like how to fight and when to run, and how fast to run were the main survival skills needed to get a high school diploma there. ...just kidding, but not really.
The lady who lived next door was the overhead crane operator at the AC plant. She'd climb the long ladder up to the operator cab in the morning with a full lunch bucket and an empty pee bucket, and at the end of her 8 hr shift came down with an empty lunch bucket and a full p.. bucket. In her off hours she spent a lot of time in the local tavern (probably with some of the engineers who designed that gawd awful WD).
Thanks for the fun and reminder of how uncomfortable that tractor was.
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