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rrneck

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Sat Jun 15, 2013, 11:46 PM Jun 2013

Big strong guys, an observation. [View all]

I was in a restaurant today having breakfast and struck up a conversation with the guy in the next booth. Nice fellah. He was about six foot three two hundred ten pounds with biceps the size of my calves. His dress and his tan labeled him for somebody that worked outside, probably in construction. When he got up to leave I noticed he did so slowly with a short pause half way up, as if he were in some pain. He walked with a slight limp that seemed to clear in about ten feet or so.

I've had a lot of manual labor jobs from farming to construction to furniture installation, and it seems that most of the big strong guys I've worked with had some sort of injury related to the physicality of the job. They've always got flat feet, a bad knee or a back that's giving them trouble. It seems to me, based on my considerable experience, that big strong guys get treated like draft animals.

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