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Am I the only one that had to spend childhood Labor Days
Sep 7, 2020, 12:47 PM
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helping my dad wax the car to "protect it through the winter"?
There was usually a thunderstorm that followed. He blamed it on a build up of static electricity from "everyone" buffing their cars with rags and elbow grease.
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Re: Am I the only one that had to spend childhood Labor Days
Sep 7, 2020, 1:04 PM
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Hey Mole, don't take this the wrong way, because no harm is intended, but are you bragging, or complaining? Having never known my father, that sounds like an experience I would have looked back on with a smile. I like the thunderstorm theory, makes sense.
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Work ethic and maintenance are good characteristics to have!***
Sep 7, 2020, 1:06 PM
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Speaking of which...I need to go cut the grass!
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Not everyone. My Dad could care less if the car ever got
Sep 7, 2020, 1:14 PM
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washed, much less waxed. Being a farmer, he was much more concerned about when, or IF it was going to rain when needed. (No irrigation systems around back then. They could only take care of half your water issues, anyway.)
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Re: Am I the only one that had to spend childhood Labor Days
Sep 7, 2020, 1:21 PM
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I'm not bragging or complaining. I do think he was a bit of a shyster in convincing us kids that Labor Day was set aside as a holiday so workers could wax their cars.
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Re: Am I the only one that had to spend childhood Labor Days
Sep 7, 2020, 1:55 PM
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Never was needed to wax the car but I sure picked my share of cotton!
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Re: Am I the only one that had to spend childhood Labor Days
Sep 7, 2020, 3:02 PM
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Labor Day didn't mean anything when I was growing up. We went to school on Labor Day elementary-high school and had classes at Clemson like any other day. I attended one session of summer school at Clemson, and we had classes on July 4, but not many attended.
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Re: Am I the only one that had to spend childhood Labor Days
Sep 7, 2020, 3:33 PM
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I'm with you Buddy. Picking cotton, hauling hay, throwing wheat straw back in the barn loft while the thresher( these youngsters probably don't know what that is), was blowing it all over you, and many other such fun things were standard operations six days a week. Labor Day, just another day to work. On July 4th we always plowed up the Irish potatoes. But since it was my birthday we did, at least, make a churn(hand cranked) of ice cream that evening.
I would have loved to have spent an afternoon under the shade of a big oak tree washing and waxing the car
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