Who Knows Where Lightning Will Strike Next
Copyright© 2022 by Sam
Prologue
I’m glad Grand father made it big, now I don’t have to. I think it was easier for the family back then. By easier, I meant all the rules, restrictions, taxes, codes, permits, and hundreds of other cost-eating expenses were not in-place then. Now, if you try to do something the majority of your expenses are for legal fees, taxes, bribes and union wages to drink coffee. How many times have you driven by work (Oxymoron) crews where two men act like they are digging and 12 men stand by to watch or hold flags? Often, Ehh. Must be a union thing.
He was near 100 years-old when he passed. He started working me when I could first walk it seemed. By the time I was old enough to drive, wham, there was nothing that could be called free-time. I made those jack-rabbits look anemic, he kept me hopping so much.
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