"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
Push Over
March 2009
A young, brash and an annoyingly over confident new labourer started work on the site and by the lunch time of his first day everyone was fed up listening to him bragging about what he couldn't do, what he couldn't lift, what he didn't know.
One old feller in particular got the brunt of much of his barbed humour, "let me you help you with that old timer before you do some damage" or worse still " I'm surprised your still working at your age".
By the end of the week the oldster could stand it no more. "You do a lot of bragging son" he said "but I bet you your wages I could carry something across the site in that old barrow there that you will never be able to wheel back".
The young man laughed and said "old man there's nothing you could wheel across the site in that barrow that I couldn't wheel back and I'll bet you a whole months wages on that".
With a wise old glint in his eye the old man put out his hand to the young man and they shook on it to the cheers of the other men who had come to watch.
He turned around and took up the handles of the wheelbarrow and with a nod of his head he said "right son... in you get"