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I remember one afternoon when I was a teenager in East Texas, my dad made me help him rake up pine needles one afternoon in our front yard. It was very hot and humid as it always is in East Texas during the summer. I was complaining and bitching about how hot it was and that I had to be out there helping him. He told me how easy I had it compared to when he was growing up. He told me once when he was a kid that he got a job at a train yard . He said that his job was to shovel gravel out of a boxcar. He discovered the more he shoveled out gravel, the deeper he sunk into the boxcar until finally, he had shoveled out all of the gravel and was standing in the bottom of this huge boxcar and realized he couldn't get out. He said his brother threw down a rope and pulled him out over the top. My dad died last December. I never found out if that story was actually true.---Keith
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Beth
3/20/2014 11:33:27 am
He would have been glad you remembered it and that you wrote about it.
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James
7/10/2014 01:57:45 am
It was most definitely true, I used to remember getting mad about cutting grass an raking yard but now I understand, I am a master yard raker, an I think of it as working out when I do it to make the time go faster. I look back an realize I should have never grumbled when my grandaddy told me to rake the yard or cut the grass, I always did it but I wanted to do it on my time. No regrets but he died last June at 87.
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