Dirty Jobs

A REAL WORKER

David is one of the hardest workers I have ever met.  He's like Mike Rowe on that Discovery channel show called  "Dirtiest Jobs."  There's simply nothing he won't do when asked.  He's a commercial and house painter now, but he spent his youth washing dishes in a diner, then graduated to mucking out horse stalls and corrals, but went on to train polo ponies and work on various ranches.  One of his more interesting jobs was assisting the horse breeders.  His job was the "line up man."  I'll leave that up to your imagination, but yes, it is that gross.  Still, David doesn't shrink from any assignments, and even goes so far as to tell the bosses to give him the worst job, while the rest of us pansies either wail and moan or disappear altogether. 

This picture above is one of my favorites, take a few years ago in Port Angeles, WA.  Here David is as a "Tunnel Rat."  We had been hired by our sister to help remodel an office building for her.  Since that day were pulling Cat 5 network cables, David drew short straw and had to go into the crawlspace underneath to pull them from the network cabinet to each individual office area.  I let him borrow my insulated coveralls and sent him in.  It was not a nice place.  He finally emerged, hours later, filthy and tattered, and told me of squeezing through spaces that a cave spelunker would shrink from.  Where the crawl space was tightest, he said he had to do the "alligator death roll" just to move around.  He looked like a coal miner's daughter's worst nightmare, but we "gotter done." 

After doing the dirty work, David would change into his painter's whites and produce the finest interior and exterior paint jobs you could ask for.  His nickname is "Michaelangelo." 

If I ever have a dirty job that is too tough for me, I know I can count on him to do it.

He's a worker, that Dave