Men at work

Karen told me about how she happened to get this shot. She stopped the car the other day where she had seen the workers in our neighborhood for a couple of days. Getting out of the car with her camera, still in her nurses' scrubs, she asked the man with the white helmet if she could take a picture of their "hole" for a "photography project." He said that that was fine, so she aimed her camera at the hole and shot. The man came over to her and asked her if she knew what they were doing. She said no. So he gave her a fairly complete layman's explanation of the "problem with the six-inch gas main," and how they had had to replace it because the old yellow plastic pipe, "over there," had had gashes in it and might have ruptured at some point, causing a gas shutdown for all the people supplied from it, "probably for six or seven miles out." She also heard all about the various pieces of equipment seen at the job-site: splicers, clamps, a pressure guage, special glues, pumps, and a variety of hand tools. Naturally, she followed his information-generosity with a question or two for him, just to be friendly. After finding out his entire life history, she complimented him on his career progress from "crew" (in the hole) to "superviser" (watching the men in the hole). Reportedly, they shook hands, and she left fairly quickly to pick up carpool. And that is the story of the picture, and she's sticking to it!

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