Worst job? Hands down for me, or rather, almost hands off for me for one job. I was forced to quit for I didn't want the second chance of loosing my hands.

Whimpy, (rest his soul), his brother, Tommy, and I worked at a truck radiator manufacture plant in New Brunswick, (or near there). The billboard had hundreds of photos of accidents at the plant, so the new workers would take safety seriously. I found out how some of those photos were able to be taken.

As I was just getting my hands back in position on my machine, from stacking newly made, but partial Mack Truck radiators, the machine I was at suddenly let loose of the many ready to be made radiators, which came down from about five feet above at full let go speed. The weight was said to be around a ton. Now, do you know that game we play where you have to move your hands without being tagged, when laying then on your friend's hands? Well, it's a good thing I am one of the fastest at that game, for I had to remove me hands from the machine in just that short of time, to not have both hands sliced right off. The crash was of course very loud, and everyone came running over ot my station. My friends, Whimpy and Tom were the first ones there and just looked at my hands, then yelled something like, "Alright! You're alright....Fking A"!

As soon as it registered I still had my hands, (for it looked like I wouldn't as I saw the accident, (hands "are" quicker than the eye), Three of us hugged, and kept saying all kinds of fun phrases, THEN I walked right pass the foreman, and went into the main office to announce I was leaving right THEN.

It was dumb of me to take such a job in the first place. But with my two friends I grew up with just getting that job, I thought it would be FUN to for us to work together! Man! It was NEVER fun. All the time it was hairy, with how the sharp copper and metal tubes and frames of the radiators were. And all the ways to have accidents there! I was playing Russian Roulette with my hands all the time there, and came within a nanosecond and a hair of loosing that game. I still cringe when seeing that exact moment in video fashion that is etched in my memory. I can hear the sudden burst to the crash a split second later. I moved my arms and hands so fast, that I had pains in my upper back and neck for a couple of days.

Makes all other jobs I had seem like picnics!

I'll have to ask Tommy for the year. It was in the early to mid 70's.


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