Re: Not your everyday public market Pictures

Posted by Bret4207 on December 05, 2014 at 09:31:16 from (64.19.90.196):

In Reply to: Not your everyday public market Pictures posted by oldtanker on December 05, 2014 at 07:02:13:

oldtanker said: (quoted from post at 12:02:13 12/05/14) Spook said: (quoted from post at 06:46:05 12/04/14) Bret4207 said: (quoted from post at 06:35:14 12/04/14) Tom OConnor said: (quoted from post at 22:45:29 12/02/14) Bret, This is a place where farmers and fishermen come to market their products. I only posted these pictures because I thought some people might enjoy them. Certainly not to judge their customers. The customers will range all the way from street people to Boeing and Microsoft engineers, housewives purchasing food for their families, medical personnel and all other business people. I milked cows and have been around dairy animals from the time I was born till I was thirty five years old. In that time I hope I had the "class" of every time I left the farm that I took a shower and changed my cloths. No, you would not be asked to leave with your barnyard boots on but you would not enhance the publics opinion of farmers either. Not to argue, but street people? Really? That's a stretch. So is the idea that any farmer has the time to spiff him self up with a shower and town clothes. Hey, glad you like the place, more power to you. I've has some not so hot experiences with the higher end type places and the "consumers" that frequent them. But then, I live in a real poor part of the country. My SIL lives in Seattle and she refers to our area as "living in abject poverty". Really think about how she came to that conclusion. Is she, at least in some sense, right? I think if you put the education and income of states like Washington vs Michigan, ( where I live ) in comparison, we come off pretty poorly. I don't know. My dad would have killed me and he never left the farm with manure on his boots and not cleaning up first. He said that there was no excuse for being dirty or nasty in public. Guess everyone's priorities are different. I know when I see a farmer in town who is dirty or has manure on his boots I don't think anything good about him. I in fact think the guy has no self respect! Rick

I guess we just have different perceptions on things. To me, I don't mind a guy whos obviously working and busting his butt. I don't care if it's a farmer with crap on his boots, a sweaty, filthy mechanic, a flagman that's been standing in 100+ heat for 10 hours or a roofer that's dead tired and stinks of BO. They deserve the respect that their labor earns them. None of us go to the public function or church in that condition, but danged if you happen to be in line in front of Mr and Mrs O'sogood at the 7-11......

ETA- FWIW- back when I was writing traffic tickets for a living, the guy with manure on his boots or who was otherwise obviously working his tail off was a lot more likely to get a break than the yuppie in his Beemer with the arm candy in the pass seat. Respect for a mans labor is something that died in this nation some time ago.

This post was edited by Bret4207 at 09:34:15 12/05/14.

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