Posted by noa on February 16, 2003, at 19:38:13
In reply to I am from Wisconsin!!! » beardedlady, posted by Miller on February 16, 2003, at 19:04:37
Here, too. Hasn't stopped for a long long time. The condo has these contractors that come and shovel the walks. They were out this morning, shoveling--while it was snowing and long before the snow is expected to stop-- the walks are covered in another foot of it! Albeit, the walks are less deep than the grass, but I still wonder why they bothered! Not these guys fault, though--probably in the contract. And for all I know, maybe in the snow-shoveling industry, this is the way to do it?
I gave the guys hot cocoa cause I felt so bad for them out in the snow and cold. These are day laborers from Central America. Now that I think of it, they probably would have preferred a tip instead of hot cocoa, with daily/hourly labor wages being what they are. I kept thinking, that maybe they are wondering what the heck they were thinking by coming from their nice warm tropical environment (forget about the wars, political oppression, earthquakes and horrible poverty for a moment, please) to this ice pack of a place up north. But if they are following the trend of many immigrants before them, this slave-wages era of their lives will at some point be behind them.
I am so not looking forward to digging out my car tomorrow!!
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