Originally posted by: BAMAVOO
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
working at a grave yard! its interesting maintaining 85 acres with the boss guy, man does he have stories!
I swear, every mechanic guy that was born pre1970 has some wicked stories to tell.
Care to share with us?
I had a teacher whose family owned a funeral home. She told us about bodies sitting up while being embalmed.
In the winter when we waiting for graves to 'cook' we had some downtime to talk and such, and he has lived a intense life, all out.
dropped out of school at 10 because his dad said his education wont take him anywhere.
worked building toppers for some guy who gave them crack/drugs at the end of the day if they did good, he made 12$ an hour (damn good back in late 70s early 80s).
he raced a lot of dunbuggies/crotch rockets/drag races/etc....broke a lot of bones doing this, especially crotch rockets in california.
around the age of 22 or so, a grandma driving in the other lane had a heart attack and flew over the divider and he was on his bike going 90 or so and she nailed him and he got run over by a big half ton truck that wrapped him in the axle while driving.
another accident was he was biking and hit a sand dune going 120 or so and it nearly killed him, broken bones, spine, abs, etc.
he looks like a big man in his old pictures (pre accidents), but now he has gotten fat because of them, his abs are not as strong as they should be to control things.
he was also in a construction crew that built pools for famous people and huge hotels in the carribean island.
he moved to wiscon, 25 or so, met his wife, married had kids. worked 80 hours a week for 4 years (ages of 27-31) at the cemetery only getting 26k a year (no overtime pay). Most of the time he slept in his truck when the graves were cooking in the winter, he had to run 3 parks at the time, alone.
I have heard some nasty stories about bodies and such...but the worst I saw was during a funeral a strap broke on the hoist into the ground and one end of the casket was stickign strait out of the grave box....good thing we had the family leave before we lowered it down.
that was probably the worst thing I saw, that and memorial day was poop, we got no complaints though, we mainted it REALLY well this year. i no longer work there though, man...so many more stories I could tell that he told me. We had a lot of downtime at that job, digging and such. I personally never saw a dead body when I worked there, never had to. It was great using the backhoe, 6 wheeler, and other manly vehicles, haha. The best day was when he worked on my car with me (we had a shop with a lift). worked on it 6 hours or so, and I was clocked in the whole time!
at my current job (U of M Landscape Arboretum, as an IT assistant) bob, the grounds crew guy, told me a story of how he worked reinflatting semi tires and fixing 'holes' in them and one guy welded a tired with air still in it and it cut his friends head strait off and blew out the supervisors ear drums and blew out all windows in the 12000square foot garage.
I am sure I will get more stories out of him
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