The hardworking men and women of America are what make this country great! We'd thank them ourselves, if we knew any. Sadly, all we know are soft-assed nitpickers and middle-managing mouth-breathers and tender-pawed desk ornaments with hair-trigger tempers. But you can be sure that we'd slap a hardworking fella on the back for a job well done -- if we weren't surrounded by
overeducated hothouse flowers, lily-livered second-guessers, arrogant pencil pushers and self-proclaimed experts with corn-chip breath.
Wow! Maybe Heather should switch to decaf. She points out though that the success of recent shows like the Deadliest Catch, Ax Men, and Ice Road Truckers as testimony to honor our working class roots.
But Heather is not alone in her idolization of physical work. Witness the lyrics of a popular Brooks & Dunn song:
I'm a hard workin' man
I wear a steel hard hat
I can ride, rope, hammer and paint
Do things with my hands that most men can't
I can't get ahead no matter how hard I try
I'm gettin' really good at barely gettin' by
Early in my career I worked as an automotive machinist, electrician and then back to a machinist/parts rebuilder of air brake systems. Those were good days, when I could look at a pile of freshly machined cylinder heads or see a light bulb come alive as electricity flowed through wiring and switches that I had installed and see the fruit of my labors. My collars were blue, I spit wherever I wanted and poured out my cold coffee wherever I happened to be standing. Maybe I should write lyrics for Brooks & Dunn. Now that I'm an office worker I can appreciate Havrilesky's sentiments.
There is a need for us office workers to get into shape and return to the joys of physical labors. However, to jump right into such a job would likely injure a flabby body. However, someone has come up with a solution that can be a gateway back into the hard working man mentality - behold the Shovelglove!
Lest you laugh and think this is a wimpy device, behold the Shovelglove upgrade.
