Ever think about how hard your day is going. I was having one such day about two months ago when I noticed at the back of our lot in the ‘neutral zone” outside our fence the local helper cleaning out the septic tank. Or what our landlord of the trailer park calls his version of cleaning it out. He has this poor fellow scrape just enough off the top to allow it to function another year.
No gloves, no face mask and getting paid a whopping $60 to use a pick and shovel and crowbar to dig up the lid by himself and shovel poop off the top into the back of the Trailer Park pickup truck to be hauled off to who knows where and dumped. The poor guy shovels, shudders, stifles back throwing up and jerks uncontrollably from the smell (frame stutter is from the webcam) and digs some more as I watch. I kept waiting for the cigarette he was smoking to set off drifting methane gas but it didn’t happen thank goodness. Imagine where all that gunk would have gone!
It must take a special kind of cheap to enlist another human being to do such a thing to save money on a real septic cleaning service.
So on your next “Hard Day” drop back by here and check him out. You just might get a new perspective.
Comments welcome,
No thank you! I remember one time, when I was a kid, a man came with a truck to clean ours, and he asked me if we wanted him to haul it away in his pumper truck, or pump it somewhere else to save money. I had seen my Dad pour a test sample in the garden, so I said just pump it there. Needless to say, we didn’t grow any vegetables that year!