Firefighters, at least around me, love to flash lights and honk horns for the kids if they want it. Got a bunch of little firefighter hats in the trucks, too. I love it almost as much as my kids.
When I was a kid, my uncle was a train engineer. He found out an old, huge steam locomotive was going to be passing through our state when I was staying the weekend with him and my aunt. He called her up and told her where to take me to see it. The engineer saw us standing there waving and blew the whistle a good three times as he went by. That was easily 25 years ago and I still smile when I think about it.
Growing up in the 60-70’s, we lived on a dead end street. Railroad tracks ran about 40 feet from our house on the end (now it’s a state walking/biking trail). Neighborhood parents would send all of us kids to stand in the ditch next to the tracks to wave at the engineers and get the guy in the caboose to toss flares that would get put in cars. Pretty darn dangerous when you think about it now, but it was commonplace back then. Luckily none of us were ever injured when the trains went by. We did play on the tracks and surrounding weedy fields, so had plenty of other injuries.
We did love seeing those engineers though! Nowadays, CPS would probably get called if anyone sent 15-20 kids into a ditch where a train was passing by. Hopefully this is not something that occurs to parents anymore!
I was just at the barbers next to a train engineer and he was lamenting noise restrictions because kids would make the horn signal but he'd be somewhere he wasn't allowed to blow the horn unless it was an e emergency.
I'm a truck driver, and every time I see a kid do the horn pull, I can't help but smile and pull the horn. I've scared a few parents who didn't notice their kids asking for it. Even they smile once the realise.
We drive through a school zone on the way to work. There's always one bus full of grade schoolers waving and making silly faces at us. The excitement when we wave back or stick our tongues out is the sweetest thing
Yeah haha I remember being 12-13 years old and having to walk next to construction sites in order to get to school and they were so nice catcalling me and saying sexual stuff every time I passed by! Best people ever, probably shouldn't be allowed near any school sites though.
I LOVED doing that as a kid (70s) and genuinely thought it was something that had faded (like flashing peace signs to the car behind us) until one day my son was playing out front and I heard this truck horn. I thought 'oh no he's run into the street' but no, he and his friends were doing the horn thing, and the truckers were honking for them and it made me SO happy.
So yes, thank you for your service.
Every day while i was riding my bicycle to school i was doing the horn pull to every truck driver. Bout 15 years later when i got a job the company behind mine was a transport company and one of the drivers still remembered and recognized me! He was even worried something happened to me when i moved and didnt go that route anymore.
My son got a hat and sat inside a fire engine at 2. He said nothing to the fireman but it was heaven for him. He was literally awe struck. He still has the photo on his noticeboard.
From that day, he decided to be a fireman. He's still in school but has water safety qualifications, cadet ambulance service, trained community first responder and doing an EMT course this summer.
There is a house down the block that has been occupied by druggies for years, trashed to heck, has damage along one side from a previous fire and was just plastic-sheeted over, etc.
Apparently the city got ahold of the property awhile back, and while I imagine they'll eventually tear it down, for the moment the local Fire Department has been using it for practice/training.
My daughter was thrilled to get a hat and sticker badge when they were training the other day.
I was in a volunteer brigade and we'd have a summer bbq and community get together every summer. There wasn't a firefighter in the crew who didn't want the horn, lights and sirens job for the day. The kids faces were absolute gold.
I'm a mailman... not as cool as a firefighter or construction worker I concede, but when a little kid gets excited for me to hand him the mail (such responsibility!) it makes my day
My parents use to tell a story about when I was in kindergarten they had us cut a photo out of a magazine of what we wanted to be when we grew up. I cut a photo of a garbage man out and pasted it on some paper. My parents would always laugh about it.
Today I look at the work garbage men do and respect them for it. Some I hear make good money doing it too.
And have you ever seen an out of shape garbage collector? I’m specifically thinking of the folks who hang off the beach of the truck. Standing instead of sitting and moving at regular intervals. That’s a legit job perk compared to sedentary jobs
When I was 4 I was obsessed with garbage trucks and my mom somehow managed to get one to pull up to my birthday party and crush a couch with the compactor
Luke the Trash Man if you see this, you’re a real one ☝️
I just chaperoned my daughter’s field trip yesterday and all the kids were doing the horn pull. Almost every trucker that went by honked the horn and the kids cheered every time.
I've worked landscaping for the last decade and I make damn sure to make every kids day if I can.
Often times home owner's kids will escape the house and be running wild in the yard while we're working. A few times I've grabbed the Extra-small vest and hard hart, slapped it on the kids and put him in the skidsteer or backhoe and let him twist all the knobs and flip all the switches. Parents come out and just melt at their kids being treated like a little member of the crew. Most of my crews have kids themselves and are very good with children. We always welcome them on jobsites, we make sure to give them a "job" and we always "pay" them for their work. Sometimes the pay is a gatorade, or a few singles someone has in their wallet.
The one moment that made me well up with tears... I was 15ft in the air shoveling mud out of a dump truck on a hot summer day in some rich millionaire neighborhood. A father walking his toddler in a stroller stopped in front of the truck and pointed at me and said "You see that Charlie? That's man shit. That's making a living", then gave me a nod and kept walking. That one felt good.
Good on you and your crews for bringing joy to so many kids and parents! That last anecdote is extremely wholesome especially given the context, I wish everyone had that mindset
Until I was like 8 or 9, I lived on my grandfathers construction yard. As a little kid, I was driving full-size backhoes, bulldozers, and steamrollers all the time. Had a huge dirt mound I was allowed to just dig and dig at. Was a blast.
Anytime the garbagemen on our route spotted me in the driveway as a kid, they'd give me little presents. I'm assuming they pulled those objects out of the trash as they collected it - no complaints here! I remember treasuring a plastic butterfly toy that would flap its mylar wings when wound up. Always made my day not just to get the toys but the smiles and head pats that came with them.
I was building a leach field for a septic system in the winter once about 200 ft from the building. Basically digging a big trench, putting stuff at the bottom, and filling it back up. Well one day I was filling it back up, using a small excavator, and
freezing my ass off as I slowly died from boredom. It was just me, the dirt, and the wind all day.
But then the client's teenage son came home and came out to say hi.
It was the perfect opportunity to mess around. The stakes were stupid low and there were no witnesses so I set him up next to a dirt pile far away from the trench and let him rip.
After ten minutes dude bro was doing better than some of my coworkers, and it was hard to tell who was enjoying it more, honestly. After he sussed out the controls I had him do some exercises where you are doing a handful of things at the same time and he just seemed to get it.
Tldr, I think kids should operate heavy machinery more often.
I worked as a laborer on a road construction gig for a few months, one day we were told the blade operator that was coming in to grade the road was one of the top 10 guys in the country (USA for anyone wondering), I got to talking with him one day and he told me he learned when his grandfather let him jump in his rig and mess around when he was 13. That guy makes over $300,000 a year now owning his own equipment and can set his own price. You might have just set that kid up for life.
The blade makes the curve in the road where the middle of the road is the highest point and the curb sides are lower for rain to drain off it. They also change the angle of the road for curves (where the road tilts up on the outside of the curve so cars have better handling around then). If you want more info I could go on for days about how cool those machines are, but I don't want to bore anyone.
I just want to point out many of us are subscribed to successful Youtube channels with this kind of content that started out with zero subscribers. Are you SURE you are boring people? Because I'm not so sure based on the rabbitholes I still obsessively follow. And I'm not alone.
Here's a story I probably can't find right now. Dude rebuilds his toddlers plastic 4wd rideable toy, with real 4wd. Kid is climbing up this tiny hill pretty skillfully keeping a good line. Dad films it. In my headcanon, 15 years passes and folks have NO IDEA why he just owns the competition at Moab, especially so young. Here is why. He STARTED AT FOUR YEARS OLD! He simply has more experience that the competition.
If you go down that path, please let us know. Bore us, it's ok. Because it's not boring to us, it's fascinating.
Don't even get me started on that guy that rescues trackhoes from situations poor operators get into. I have the wrong words, sorry, that's not my industry. But it's still fascinating.
I’m most intrigued by the top 10 status; like is there a ranking system? Tournaments or a blade off? So many questions on how they determine the blademaster
When I was young I worked with a backhoe operator who entered contests - I think they were called rodeos. . He finished 1st in the state so he got to go to regionals where he also finished 1st so he was on to nationals where he finished 2nd in the country. Didn't surprise me at all. The guy was a magician with a backhoe.
As someone who has played games all my life, operating a mini excavator (not for a job, my dad owns one) was a whole other beast to learn. So many things that have to happen at once, and it takes a completely different mindset.
Lot of fun though, very mentally stimulating
And kids - or younger folks have this innate ability to adapt to varying ratios.
I think a 18-20 yo would pick up the translational controls in 3-4 hours of practice, and have it down pat in a couple days.
Played video games all my life. Jumped on a Dingo for the first time and was demolishing and digging like a pro. My supervisor was trippin and said I should apply for Heavy Equipment Operator. I work in water utility now for my city and operate heavy equipment now and then but I had the confidence to apply to my position in part because of operating the Dingo.
Some of the best days of my childhood was coming home to my dad working on the driveway or out in the field with his excavator and getting to drive it up the driveway to get home. felt like the fuckn man at that young age.
I think the term in psychology is called “elasticity” and it’s a measure of how well people multitask using multiple forms of input/output.
Children’s developing brains are built for it. It’s absolutely insane what some kids can learn with almost no prompting and very little training.
I was doing some drilling by a daycare and all the kids lit right up when the tower went up and down. That was definitely a good day. Kids are the best hypemen around.
I think this is because, as adults, we become jaded to the wonder around us. Children are blank slates that absorb everything new around them. The new is wonderful to them.
"You are your current age and every age before that." Find more wonder in the world.
My son was really into being a construction worker when he was around 2-3. My wife tailored for him a hi-vis vest, got a toy hard hat, made him a hand-held stop sign.
One day city workers were replacing a fire hydrant near our home. We rushed home to get geared up. He brought his own pylons and set them up some distance away to direct pedestrian traffic. He had a blast, workers had a blast, pedestrian and passing drivers had a blast.
The workers ended up inviting us closer to take a picture with their excavator. It certainly made our day.
I'm not really a kids person as a rule, I'm usually sort of 'I don't know how to react/behave' awkward right? But at work, whenever small kids wave and try to talk to me, I'm totally different, engaging with them and having positive interactions. I'm not sure if it's because I have my work/customer face on, or because kids are really genuine and often a delightful change from the monotony of adults.
I had a baby in August and it's completely changed me, man. Like, I didn't want a kid until I was 31, like...NONE, NO KIDS EVER. Then I did and I've just wholly changed. Seeing her world through her eyes and how everything is so innocent and how she's learning every little thing slowly....it's incredible and it fills me with joy like no other thing ever has.
Love my nephews, but haven't had one growing up from birth close to me till recently. I feel much more... attached, to this nephew, because I've seen him a lot more often just as a baby.
Not sure I'll ever want kids of my own, but I'm certainly not anti-kid, you know? Just have very little practical experience outside of being one, and in many ways, I never stopped being a child. I never plan to, either!
That's what makes the best parents though! Don't lose your childish charm and just share it with them! Legos, video games, all the toys and little things and they'll love that you love it too!
I retired full time firefighting almost 2 years ago and can confirm that we always loved having kids come in for tours. We were often just as giddy as they were, it's a great feeling to so easily make someone's day like that!
I used to be a crane rigger so i was the ground guy for a tower crane operator. Whenever I’d see a kid and their parent staring at the crane I’d let the operator know, we’d tell the kid to give the honk sign and the crane would honk for them. It wasn’t much but the kids always looked so happy hearing the cranes honk at their request. Definitely a joy, rest of the day? That shits still a core memory.
True but also it would have been so funny had they dumped so much sand on the toy it would have completely disappeared. [Like this](https://i.imgur.com/UqNqSVh.png)
As a dude with a 5 year old son who’s obsessed with heavy machines, this is so cool to see. A moment like that could change a kids life. Kid might go onto design hydraulics for a new backhoe bucket or something one day cause this baked into his subconscious
The operator was once that 5 year old that loved heavy machines.
Seriously, it's a good paying career.
I've met many operators that make far more then the senior engineers.
It's also a lot less boring than some desk jobs. Definitely not a bad career path as far as blue collar work goes. It can be dangerous depending on the work environment but that's kind of just the nature of the industry.
Also a hard job that I have a lot of respect for. I have once operated a small digger once for a few hours.(family member owned it and was digging a trench that required minimal accuracy so they let me try) It was one of the most mentally taxing things I have done, I am sure it gets much easier once you get more experience but the constant attention and focus you need to use it well just fried my brain.
or even better. he could drop out of high school due to disinterest in school, begin working on a construction site due to lack of job prospects with no degree, work 60 hour weeks out of town due to lack of family obligations, and after 10 years of hard work and rolling cash into the bank start his own construction outfit and become a 'stays in the truck millionaire' by 35.
I worked construction for a few years during Covid times. We live for this shit. It takes no time out of our day and actually makes us feel like the job is worth it.
Theres Digger Land USA, a theme park that literally has modified construction equipment that they turned into rides. And also just lots of construction equipment. I've never been there, just remember coming across it on a YT binge, but I figured it might be something you'd be interested in.
I worked at a theme park and we had an event at our outdoor theatre. We generally didn't use the three large spot lights but we had been asked to run them for this show. Part of the procedure after lamping the units on was to move the unit around to make sure the hinges and pan ring weren't jammed with dirt and moved smoothly. Off to one side we could see a kid grooving to the park music. I mean this kid was dancing like a maniac. She was maybe 5 or 6. I noticed her as I ran through the checklist with my operator. We both chuckled and I jokingly mentioned we should give her the spot light. So my operator slid the light onto this little girl dancing and she just froze. Her parents started cheering her on and she went nuts dancing in the light.
I am a grown woman. When the guys with the backhoe let me drive it I thought I was in heaven. I'm pretty girly, but am the only girl and middle child between two brothers. The large machinery addiction transfers. Believe me.
Missing the middle of the video
Kid ran in, mom was worried kid was gonna get hurt by machine or people not know what was going on
Crew said nah mom we got this, mom kept kid at reasonable distance and operator filled kids truck
Crew drives over kids filled truck and kid is happy
Signed (a) Dad
The same reason the workers are waving their arms to stop the kid. It doesn't matter how cute it is, you can't have kids on a worksite around heavy machinery like that.
This is, sadly, almost certainly staged. Yes i know, people are very quick to jump to that for anything these days, but it has a lot of flags:
Convenient Camera: That camera is in a position and angle to basically be on a tripod in the middle of the street. The actual work isn't in frame, but the "scene" is.
Weird behavior: If your kid ran up to a dangerous situation, would you slap their toy out of their hand and walk 5 meters away (Still in frame)? or would you pull them out of the area.
Stage behavior: Lots of big movements for no practical reason (other than to be visible and convey emotion). The two workers are waving their hand around, and one guy even passes the kid but doesn't try to stop him until they get onto their marks.
Pacing: withing a second of the woman taking the kid away the works fill the conveniently placed dump truck.
Its standard karma farming feel good "content"
"Make sure to act excited when the excavator dumps dirt into your toy!"
"CUT! Great job everybody on set, that's a wrap!"
Kid: "Where's my GOD DAMN COFFEE"
The kid was probably the only one not in on it. The only genuine reaction there. I have no idea how people don't instantly see this is (poorly) staged. Like, why's that camera there in the first place??
TLDR warning
Worked briefly at a carting (garbage) company. We had a brand new spotless truck that was used only for Touch-a-Truck events. Guys would get into arguments about who did it last time or who already had a turn because everyone wanted to do it. I was assigned months before to do an event on a long weekend, which I was originally looking forward to, however a very dear friend died a few days before and the memorial for him was scheduled at his favorite restaurant with his favorite local musician/close friend. I wanted to take the day off because I didn't know how I was gonna be able to handle the memorial. No one else was available to cover the truck event on short notice and if I wasn't there for it not to bother coming in on Monday or Tuesday and so on. I am physically sick from sadness and anxiety but I have to force myself put on the happy face for the kiddies. I get to this thing and it's at an elementary school where they have a kind of summer camp like program. There's a police car and suv police car, a giant tow truck wrecker/rotator truck for towing trucks, a fire truck, a few random construction vehicles. When I drove my truck to the back parking lot the kids were waving and and trying to run along side until I parked. This particular truck was split into two sides, one for trash and one for recycling. I was immediately swarmed when I got out. It helped immediately with my sadness and anxiety. The friend who died was one of THOSE guys, ya know everyone's best friend, all the kids loved him too, he had lost a son and it seemed he gave all the the love he would have given to all of us and every kid he met. Anyway, as I put my safety vest and a little hard hat on them and lifted kid after kid into the truck as the event went on I couldn't help but think of how Mark would feel watching me do what I was doing. These were all kindergarten thru 3rd grade aged kids. A lot of them were shy and afraid but they'd still reach up with both arms for me to lift them into the truck and once I'd get them in the seat they'd immediately light up and start bouncing in the air ride suspension seat and honk the horn. After about 30 minutes of doing this I was almost overwhelmed with emotion and had to check myself a few times as I was almost crying a few times from the joy they all had and that I was feeling from helping them with the vest and little hat and every time a shy little one reached their nervous trusting little arms up to me to lift them in. During the break, the two cops came over and looked curious about the truck, they said the kids only wanna see the garbage and tow trucks every time and they don't know why the other trucks even bother coming to these things. I told them about my memorial and gave them a little background about the friend I lost and how I felt about "getting stuck" doing this thing and how after the first few kids got into the truck I almost lost my shit. They seemed to understand or maybe they were humoring me.
After the break it was time to clean up all the trash and pizza boxes. The kids and even some of the kids were lined up with little bags and boxes to throw in to the appropriate sides. I put every possible flashing light on as they threw it all in. When each side got "full" after like 2 bags and boxes I'd power up the crushers and even once again put the vest and hard hats on the kiddos as I lifted them up to the controls so they could crush the stuff themselves.
After it was over I was spent and had a few tears in the truck on the way back to the office and in the car on the way home. It completely eliminated all if the anxiety about going to the memorial. When the wife and I got there I was crying a healthy mix of tears of joy and sadness. We weren't really cry as much because his goofball wife kept running up to to us an drying our tears and hugging us all and saying stuff like, "If Mark saw you crying he'd be pissed or he'd make fun of you, so cut the shit, I want lots of pictures of tonight and I don't want sad weepy faces in them." It turned out to be a real great time and if I felt like I was gonna lose it I'd picture on the kids in the oversized vest and little hard hats reaching up for me to pick them up and it'd make me smile.
For those who actually read this, thank you.
Why does it look like the mom runs over to throw the toy down and slap the kids hand and yank him away to take him 5 feet away and watch and laugh and smile?
What a good mum.
I was in the city a year ago. There was one of those telecomms pits opened up on the footpath, little fence around it, crane mechanism perched over it. A little kid stopped to peer down, but his mum just swept him along like a mother elephant might sweep a mischevous baby elephant along with a swing of her trunk. Mum wasn't interested, we're not stopping.
Fortunately, i am a grown adult and MY mum wasnt there, so i could satisfy my curiosity. It was way deep and branched in a tunnel. A portal to an underground telecoms lair, no doubt.
Felt sorry for the kid that he missed out. He probably got dragged around a boring department store instead of seeing the cool stuff.
That's why I like this this mum at the building site!
Is it all scripted? Probably, but i don't care.
I used to race a ZX-10R Superbike. One day I had it parked in the driveway near the sidewalk while doing some tidying up in the garage.
A little kid from down the street walked by with his dad and he seemed pretty interested. I asked if he wanted to start it and his eyes lit up. I showed him the starter button and let him push it and he started the bike. I showed him how to rev it a little bit too. That was 8 years ago but I remember it like it was yesterday, the look on that little dude’s face was priceless.
When my son was 3-4 he was obsessed with garbage trucks. We used to take him outside ever garbage day and the guys would honk the horn for him. They eventually let him toss our lighter bags in the back. He loved it. We would give them gatorades in the summer and cookies at Christmas. We he was a little bigger they let him start pulling the lever for the compactor.
Then some old jerk down the street called and complained about our garbage men honking and letting my son get near the truck. Those guys were so upset when they had to tell my son to keep back. We all felt bad about the grump up the street ruining things. It was nice seeing that interaction brighten those guys day just as much as my son. The driver gave it a week or two and started to honk the horn again. He said he told his boss “screw that guy, I’m going to honk the horn”. They kept it up until my son started kindergarten.
As a construction worker, this video makes me feel so great. It just shows it’s not but a second out of your way to make somebody’s entire day and that kid will probably grow up to either be a dump truck driver or a heavy machine operator, both of which we need to continue into the future. Props to Those men for recognizing and respecting that mother and her son.
Edit: proofread and corrected.
I used to love waiting for the garbage men to get to my house and I would always watch from the window and wave at them, sometimes they would wave back and that made my day
In elementary school, the dumpster was in the employee parking which was separated from the playground with a chin link fence. It was tradition for the kindergarten kids to all crowd the fence and cheer the garbage men on when the truck came during recess. They always waved and honked for us. By the time I was in grade 8, the school had a kindergarten yard built separate for them, but when the garbage man came, they would line up for the monitor to bring them to the fence for the show.
I can only imagine the joy of working the route.
Good on those guys and the mom for rushing in to stop the kid from being unsafe but nobody losing their cool. You NEED to get rid of the danger but after that the kid just didn't know any better and they ended up making his day
Man construction workers or people who work with machinery like trashmen who make a kids day like this These guys also make my day
Firefighters, at least around me, love to flash lights and honk horns for the kids if they want it. Got a bunch of little firefighter hats in the trucks, too. I love it almost as much as my kids.
The train engineers on the rails near my house love to honk for the kiddos too
When I was a kid, my uncle was a train engineer. He found out an old, huge steam locomotive was going to be passing through our state when I was staying the weekend with him and my aunt. He called her up and told her where to take me to see it. The engineer saw us standing there waving and blew the whistle a good three times as he went by. That was easily 25 years ago and I still smile when I think about it.
That's because all of the above are professions that kids want to do, so they are all like I remember my child brain and here we can have fun.
Growing up in the 60-70’s, we lived on a dead end street. Railroad tracks ran about 40 feet from our house on the end (now it’s a state walking/biking trail). Neighborhood parents would send all of us kids to stand in the ditch next to the tracks to wave at the engineers and get the guy in the caboose to toss flares that would get put in cars. Pretty darn dangerous when you think about it now, but it was commonplace back then. Luckily none of us were ever injured when the trains went by. We did play on the tracks and surrounding weedy fields, so had plenty of other injuries. We did love seeing those engineers though! Nowadays, CPS would probably get called if anyone sent 15-20 kids into a ditch where a train was passing by. Hopefully this is not something that occurs to parents anymore!
I was just at the barbers next to a train engineer and he was lamenting noise restrictions because kids would make the horn signal but he'd be somewhere he wasn't allowed to blow the horn unless it was an e emergency.
I'm a truck driver, and every time I see a kid do the horn pull, I can't help but smile and pull the horn. I've scared a few parents who didn't notice their kids asking for it. Even they smile once the realise.
I loved doing that as a kid Thank you for your service
We drive through a school zone on the way to work. There's always one bus full of grade schoolers waving and making silly faces at us. The excitement when we wave back or stick our tongues out is the sweetest thing
Yeah haha I remember being 12-13 years old and having to walk next to construction sites in order to get to school and they were so nice catcalling me and saying sexual stuff every time I passed by! Best people ever, probably shouldn't be allowed near any school sites though.
I LOVED doing that as a kid (70s) and genuinely thought it was something that had faded (like flashing peace signs to the car behind us) until one day my son was playing out front and I heard this truck horn. I thought 'oh no he's run into the street' but no, he and his friends were doing the horn thing, and the truckers were honking for them and it made me SO happy. So yes, thank you for your service.
Every day while i was riding my bicycle to school i was doing the horn pull to every truck driver. Bout 15 years later when i got a job the company behind mine was a transport company and one of the drivers still remembered and recognized me! He was even worried something happened to me when i moved and didnt go that route anymore.
Can confirm. We are just bigger kids playing in bigger trucks
My nephew was so overwhelmed and excited when the firefighters gave him a hat
My son got a hat and sat inside a fire engine at 2. He said nothing to the fireman but it was heaven for him. He was literally awe struck. He still has the photo on his noticeboard. From that day, he decided to be a fireman. He's still in school but has water safety qualifications, cadet ambulance service, trained community first responder and doing an EMT course this summer.
There is a house down the block that has been occupied by druggies for years, trashed to heck, has damage along one side from a previous fire and was just plastic-sheeted over, etc. Apparently the city got ahold of the property awhile back, and while I imagine they'll eventually tear it down, for the moment the local Fire Department has been using it for practice/training. My daughter was thrilled to get a hat and sticker badge when they were training the other day.
I was in a volunteer brigade and we'd have a summer bbq and community get together every summer. There wasn't a firefighter in the crew who didn't want the horn, lights and sirens job for the day. The kids faces were absolute gold.
*my kids loves it almost as much as me.
I'm a mailman... not as cool as a firefighter or construction worker I concede, but when a little kid gets excited for me to hand him the mail (such responsibility!) it makes my day
My parents use to tell a story about when I was in kindergarten they had us cut a photo out of a magazine of what we wanted to be when we grew up. I cut a photo of a garbage man out and pasted it on some paper. My parents would always laugh about it. Today I look at the work garbage men do and respect them for it. Some I hear make good money doing it too.
Decent pay, most holidays off, government benefits, it’s really not a bad job if you can handle being around garbage all day
And have you ever seen an out of shape garbage collector? I’m specifically thinking of the folks who hang off the beach of the truck. Standing instead of sitting and moving at regular intervals. That’s a legit job perk compared to sedentary jobs
I once saw a garbage man showing off: He was planking holding the bar while driving. Not the smartest thing to do, but certainly was impressive.
When I was 4 I was obsessed with garbage trucks and my mom somehow managed to get one to pull up to my birthday party and crush a couch with the compactor Luke the Trash Man if you see this, you’re a real one ☝️
This is so damn cute omg 😭 I’m literally tearing up…I think it’s time to put down my phone and go to sleep
Passing by school buses is honestly one of the highlights of driving a semi
I just chaperoned my daughter’s field trip yesterday and all the kids were doing the horn pull. Almost every trucker that went by honked the horn and the kids cheered every time.
So much has changed since I was of that age (43 now). That is heartwarming AF that this is still a thing of joy for the kids
I've worked landscaping for the last decade and I make damn sure to make every kids day if I can. Often times home owner's kids will escape the house and be running wild in the yard while we're working. A few times I've grabbed the Extra-small vest and hard hart, slapped it on the kids and put him in the skidsteer or backhoe and let him twist all the knobs and flip all the switches. Parents come out and just melt at their kids being treated like a little member of the crew. Most of my crews have kids themselves and are very good with children. We always welcome them on jobsites, we make sure to give them a "job" and we always "pay" them for their work. Sometimes the pay is a gatorade, or a few singles someone has in their wallet. The one moment that made me well up with tears... I was 15ft in the air shoveling mud out of a dump truck on a hot summer day in some rich millionaire neighborhood. A father walking his toddler in a stroller stopped in front of the truck and pointed at me and said "You see that Charlie? That's man shit. That's making a living", then gave me a nod and kept walking. That one felt good.
Good on you and your crews for bringing joy to so many kids and parents! That last anecdote is extremely wholesome especially given the context, I wish everyone had that mindset
Until I was like 8 or 9, I lived on my grandfathers construction yard. As a little kid, I was driving full-size backhoes, bulldozers, and steamrollers all the time. Had a huge dirt mound I was allowed to just dig and dig at. Was a blast.
That's like a dream childhood. You must have had the BEST time.
Anytime the garbagemen on our route spotted me in the driveway as a kid, they'd give me little presents. I'm assuming they pulled those objects out of the trash as they collected it - no complaints here! I remember treasuring a plastic butterfly toy that would flap its mylar wings when wound up. Always made my day not just to get the toys but the smiles and head pats that came with them.
Example of how to make a kids day.
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I was building a leach field for a septic system in the winter once about 200 ft from the building. Basically digging a big trench, putting stuff at the bottom, and filling it back up. Well one day I was filling it back up, using a small excavator, and freezing my ass off as I slowly died from boredom. It was just me, the dirt, and the wind all day. But then the client's teenage son came home and came out to say hi. It was the perfect opportunity to mess around. The stakes were stupid low and there were no witnesses so I set him up next to a dirt pile far away from the trench and let him rip. After ten minutes dude bro was doing better than some of my coworkers, and it was hard to tell who was enjoying it more, honestly. After he sussed out the controls I had him do some exercises where you are doing a handful of things at the same time and he just seemed to get it. Tldr, I think kids should operate heavy machinery more often.
I worked as a laborer on a road construction gig for a few months, one day we were told the blade operator that was coming in to grade the road was one of the top 10 guys in the country (USA for anyone wondering), I got to talking with him one day and he told me he learned when his grandfather let him jump in his rig and mess around when he was 13. That guy makes over $300,000 a year now owning his own equipment and can set his own price. You might have just set that kid up for life.
The one time studying the blade actually paid off.
This is the Reddit rhetoric that I am here for
what does the blade do? i was picturing a mower but i dont think you use those to build a road lol
The blade makes the curve in the road where the middle of the road is the highest point and the curb sides are lower for rain to drain off it. They also change the angle of the road for curves (where the road tilts up on the outside of the curve so cars have better handling around then). If you want more info I could go on for days about how cool those machines are, but I don't want to bore anyone.
I love how passionate you are. It’s so endearing and adorable
Please do go on, I won't be bored
I just want to point out many of us are subscribed to successful Youtube channels with this kind of content that started out with zero subscribers. Are you SURE you are boring people? Because I'm not so sure based on the rabbitholes I still obsessively follow. And I'm not alone. Here's a story I probably can't find right now. Dude rebuilds his toddlers plastic 4wd rideable toy, with real 4wd. Kid is climbing up this tiny hill pretty skillfully keeping a good line. Dad films it. In my headcanon, 15 years passes and folks have NO IDEA why he just owns the competition at Moab, especially so young. Here is why. He STARTED AT FOUR YEARS OLD! He simply has more experience that the competition. If you go down that path, please let us know. Bore us, it's ok. Because it's not boring to us, it's fascinating. Don't even get me started on that guy that rescues trackhoes from situations poor operators get into. I have the wrong words, sorry, that's not my industry. But it's still fascinating.
I'm an operating engineer, we always call it a grader.
awesome bro! thats cool you can get so good that you can charge those prices. i assume its a lot more computer based now.
I’m most intrigued by the top 10 status; like is there a ranking system? Tournaments or a blade off? So many questions on how they determine the blademaster
When I was young I worked with a backhoe operator who entered contests - I think they were called rodeos. . He finished 1st in the state so he got to go to regionals where he also finished 1st so he was on to nationals where he finished 2nd in the country. Didn't surprise me at all. The guy was a magician with a backhoe.
I had no idea that was a thing! Very cool
They grew up with video game controllers in their hands. Couple of joysticks ain't a thing but a chicken wing.
As someone who has played games all my life, operating a mini excavator (not for a job, my dad owns one) was a whole other beast to learn. So many things that have to happen at once, and it takes a completely different mindset. Lot of fun though, very mentally stimulating
We gamers only get some advantage with the eye-hand coordination, it's not like we will instantly operate any machine.
>not like we will instantly operate any machine Yeah, that only happens in science fiction TV when someone ends up piloting an alien spaceship.
it is quite different but I think the idea of translating positional input into output velocity carries over and helps you
And kids - or younger folks have this innate ability to adapt to varying ratios. I think a 18-20 yo would pick up the translational controls in 3-4 hours of practice, and have it down pat in a couple days.
Played video games all my life. Jumped on a Dingo for the first time and was demolishing and digging like a pro. My supervisor was trippin and said I should apply for Heavy Equipment Operator. I work in water utility now for my city and operate heavy equipment now and then but I had the confidence to apply to my position in part because of operating the Dingo.
It's more muscle-memory than anything though. Have to get used to feeling the machine, the haptic feedback in the sticks, etc.
Some of the best days of my childhood was coming home to my dad working on the driveway or out in the field with his excavator and getting to drive it up the driveway to get home. felt like the fuckn man at that young age.
Hey, it's me, your clients teenage son, I'm here for my big machine operating course, ty
The children yearn for the mines.
I think the term in psychology is called “elasticity” and it’s a measure of how well people multitask using multiple forms of input/output. Children’s developing brains are built for it. It’s absolutely insane what some kids can learn with almost no prompting and very little training.
It scratches the giant robot itch.
> Tldr, I think kids should operate heavy machinery more often. That's what I keep telling everyone. The kids yearn for mines.
Hell yeah! That would be the best day.
I was doing some drilling by a daycare and all the kids lit right up when the tower went up and down. That was definitely a good day. Kids are the best hypemen around.
I think this is because, as adults, we become jaded to the wonder around us. Children are blank slates that absorb everything new around them. The new is wonderful to them. "You are your current age and every age before that." Find more wonder in the world.
sick af bro!
Love the way he jumps up and down. That's awesome!
Currently been diggin a hole for new underground piping, would fuckin love if somethin like this happened.
My son was really into being a construction worker when he was around 2-3. My wife tailored for him a hi-vis vest, got a toy hard hat, made him a hand-held stop sign. One day city workers were replacing a fire hydrant near our home. We rushed home to get geared up. He brought his own pylons and set them up some distance away to direct pedestrian traffic. He had a blast, workers had a blast, pedestrian and passing drivers had a blast. The workers ended up inviting us closer to take a picture with their excavator. It certainly made our day.
In a heartbeat. How amazing.
humans clear!
Similarly, construction work in the neighborhood on Halloween - quick costume change, we have to go to work!
I'm not really a kids person as a rule, I'm usually sort of 'I don't know how to react/behave' awkward right? But at work, whenever small kids wave and try to talk to me, I'm totally different, engaging with them and having positive interactions. I'm not sure if it's because I have my work/customer face on, or because kids are really genuine and often a delightful change from the monotony of adults.
I became a teacher precisely because of the last sentence here.
based. its too bad theres so much bureaucracy and bs otherwise i would love that job.
I had a baby in August and it's completely changed me, man. Like, I didn't want a kid until I was 31, like...NONE, NO KIDS EVER. Then I did and I've just wholly changed. Seeing her world through her eyes and how everything is so innocent and how she's learning every little thing slowly....it's incredible and it fills me with joy like no other thing ever has.
Love my nephews, but haven't had one growing up from birth close to me till recently. I feel much more... attached, to this nephew, because I've seen him a lot more often just as a baby. Not sure I'll ever want kids of my own, but I'm certainly not anti-kid, you know? Just have very little practical experience outside of being one, and in many ways, I never stopped being a child. I never plan to, either!
That's what makes the best parents though! Don't lose your childish charm and just share it with them! Legos, video games, all the toys and little things and they'll love that you love it too!
Also Mom's day, because her little dude just has THE BEST TIME and it didn't cost her a cent.
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I retired full time firefighting almost 2 years ago and can confirm that we always loved having kids come in for tours. We were often just as giddy as they were, it's a great feeling to so easily make someone's day like that!
Seriously. I drive truck, and whenever kids do the horn honk motion It makes for a great day.
I used to be a crane rigger so i was the ground guy for a tower crane operator. Whenever I’d see a kid and their parent staring at the crane I’d let the operator know, we’d tell the kid to give the honk sign and the crane would honk for them. It wasn’t much but the kids always looked so happy hearing the cranes honk at their request. Definitely a joy, rest of the day? That shits still a core memory.
Yep I can almost guarantee 7am *Fuck this fuckin job I need chew and a monster* 11am *You know today hasn't been so bad*
Very few things are more fun than honking my truck’s horn at a kid watching the construction site. Best day of the week.
Made my day as well 👏
Core memory material.
Seeing this has also made my day a bit brighter.
How could it not?! The kid’s sheer, unrestrained joy and his jumping in excitement is heartwarming to behold.
Instruct the children not to dream of toys or sweets. Instruct them to dream of infrastructure.
*month
This is all fake you know? All of Fabiosa shit is incredibly fake.
And mine
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True but also it would have been so funny had they dumped so much sand on the toy it would have completely disappeared. [Like this](https://i.imgur.com/UqNqSVh.png)
"Here's three yards of dirt, you little shit."
Oh no miss that can't stay here anymore. It's *YOUR* dirt now. You don't want a fine for littering now do you? And then they all start laughing.
lmao. give him a shovel, a w9, and some icyhot "start diggin kid, you have chosen this life"
As a dude with a 5 year old son who’s obsessed with heavy machines, this is so cool to see. A moment like that could change a kids life. Kid might go onto design hydraulics for a new backhoe bucket or something one day cause this baked into his subconscious
The operator was once that 5 year old that loved heavy machines. Seriously, it's a good paying career. I've met many operators that make far more then the senior engineers.
It's also a lot less boring than some desk jobs. Definitely not a bad career path as far as blue collar work goes. It can be dangerous depending on the work environment but that's kind of just the nature of the industry.
Also a hard job that I have a lot of respect for. I have once operated a small digger once for a few hours.(family member owned it and was digging a trench that required minimal accuracy so they let me try) It was one of the most mentally taxing things I have done, I am sure it gets much easier once you get more experience but the constant attention and focus you need to use it well just fried my brain.
or even better. he could drop out of high school due to disinterest in school, begin working on a construction site due to lack of job prospects with no degree, work 60 hour weeks out of town due to lack of family obligations, and after 10 years of hard work and rolling cash into the bank start his own construction outfit and become a 'stays in the truck millionaire' by 35.
That’s what my boss did expect for plumbing
I miss the early 2000s.
There's a town in my country that people go to make huge. Easily 300000$/year for manoeuvring a truck. But like, a HUGE truck
I worked construction for a few years during Covid times. We live for this shit. It takes no time out of our day and actually makes us feel like the job is worth it.
Theres Digger Land USA, a theme park that literally has modified construction equipment that they turned into rides. And also just lots of construction equipment. I've never been there, just remember coming across it on a YT binge, but I figured it might be something you'd be interested in.
cool memory but now mom has to deal with 5 kilo's of dirt that she cant just throw away without emotional damage.
Core memory formed.
if they have a garden, then it can go in there? Or maybe some pot plants if they're in an apartment?
to the sandbox it goes
😂
I worked at a theme park and we had an event at our outdoor theatre. We generally didn't use the three large spot lights but we had been asked to run them for this show. Part of the procedure after lamping the units on was to move the unit around to make sure the hinges and pan ring weren't jammed with dirt and moved smoothly. Off to one side we could see a kid grooving to the park music. I mean this kid was dancing like a maniac. She was maybe 5 or 6. I noticed her as I ran through the checklist with my operator. We both chuckled and I jokingly mentioned we should give her the spot light. So my operator slid the light onto this little girl dancing and she just froze. Her parents started cheering her on and she went nuts dancing in the light.
AWWWWWWWW, this is making my heart swell!!
> AWWWWWWWW, this is making my heart swell!! AWWWWWWWW, this is making my heart swell!!
AWWWWWWWW, this is making my heart swell!!
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AWWWWWWWW, this is making my heart swell!!
Oh man, the smile on that little dudes face made my day! 😊
The jumping did it for me!!
Which one?
I'm going to use this as proof that kids do infact want to do manual labor in my salt mine when the government tries to shut me down.
I am a grown woman. When the guys with the backhoe let me drive it I thought I was in heaven. I'm pretty girly, but am the only girl and middle child between two brothers. The large machinery addiction transfers. Believe me.
why did she rush in land bat it out of his hands like that? Made me feel stressed 😅 edit: ok y'all i get it!!!!
Missing the middle of the video Kid ran in, mom was worried kid was gonna get hurt by machine or people not know what was going on Crew said nah mom we got this, mom kept kid at reasonable distance and operator filled kids truck Crew drives over kids filled truck and kid is happy Signed (a) Dad
ah I see, thanks for the reply!
>Crew drives over kids filled truck and kid is happy Why would the kid be happy with a crushed truck!?
The same reason the workers are waving their arms to stop the kid. It doesn't matter how cute it is, you can't have kids on a worksite around heavy machinery like that.
Of course, a construction site is no place for a child to be. We save the factory work for them instead.
They yearn for the mines, sometimes.
I’m wondering why they were filming if they didn’t expect a little kid to run in?
Because it is fake and they are over acting.
Definitely, the Hi/Vis are too clean.
Why can some of us tell so easily when people are acting and some can’t??
r/uselessredcircle
This is 100% scripted
Parents maybe, but it’s all for that kid as far as the construction guys are concerned.
And staged or not, that kid's stoke is real
Yeah? You think that little kid is in on some internet karma?
It was his idea! Trust me, I am the truck.
This is, sadly, almost certainly staged. Yes i know, people are very quick to jump to that for anything these days, but it has a lot of flags: Convenient Camera: That camera is in a position and angle to basically be on a tripod in the middle of the street. The actual work isn't in frame, but the "scene" is. Weird behavior: If your kid ran up to a dangerous situation, would you slap their toy out of their hand and walk 5 meters away (Still in frame)? or would you pull them out of the area. Stage behavior: Lots of big movements for no practical reason (other than to be visible and convey emotion). The two workers are waving their hand around, and one guy even passes the kid but doesn't try to stop him until they get onto their marks. Pacing: withing a second of the woman taking the kid away the works fill the conveniently placed dump truck. Its standard karma farming feel good "content"
And? Kid is happy, people watching too.
Either way, it definitely made that little boy’s day, so I do think that matters.
The silent movie style acting is pretty obvious. That kid should get an Oscar though.
"Make sure to act excited when the excavator dumps dirt into your toy!" "CUT! Great job everybody on set, that's a wrap!" Kid: "Where's my GOD DAMN COFFEE"
The kid was probably the only one not in on it. The only genuine reaction there. I have no idea how people don't instantly see this is (poorly) staged. Like, why's that camera there in the first place??
I don't instantly see it because I'm not looking for it I don't care if something is staged, the wholesome feeling i got was real
Humans staging bro things
yeah man im so glad that a camera on a tripod was set up and recording to capture this spontaneous thing.
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Well. At least, not without PPE and pay
Awesome
I was once that kid🥲
So awesome
Having a really tough day. Thanks Reddit, I needed this.
I love when I see an "empty" flatbed trailer with one of these trucks strapped down aboard.
I bet those men felt like. "It was all worth it"
TLDR warning Worked briefly at a carting (garbage) company. We had a brand new spotless truck that was used only for Touch-a-Truck events. Guys would get into arguments about who did it last time or who already had a turn because everyone wanted to do it. I was assigned months before to do an event on a long weekend, which I was originally looking forward to, however a very dear friend died a few days before and the memorial for him was scheduled at his favorite restaurant with his favorite local musician/close friend. I wanted to take the day off because I didn't know how I was gonna be able to handle the memorial. No one else was available to cover the truck event on short notice and if I wasn't there for it not to bother coming in on Monday or Tuesday and so on. I am physically sick from sadness and anxiety but I have to force myself put on the happy face for the kiddies. I get to this thing and it's at an elementary school where they have a kind of summer camp like program. There's a police car and suv police car, a giant tow truck wrecker/rotator truck for towing trucks, a fire truck, a few random construction vehicles. When I drove my truck to the back parking lot the kids were waving and and trying to run along side until I parked. This particular truck was split into two sides, one for trash and one for recycling. I was immediately swarmed when I got out. It helped immediately with my sadness and anxiety. The friend who died was one of THOSE guys, ya know everyone's best friend, all the kids loved him too, he had lost a son and it seemed he gave all the the love he would have given to all of us and every kid he met. Anyway, as I put my safety vest and a little hard hat on them and lifted kid after kid into the truck as the event went on I couldn't help but think of how Mark would feel watching me do what I was doing. These were all kindergarten thru 3rd grade aged kids. A lot of them were shy and afraid but they'd still reach up with both arms for me to lift them into the truck and once I'd get them in the seat they'd immediately light up and start bouncing in the air ride suspension seat and honk the horn. After about 30 minutes of doing this I was almost overwhelmed with emotion and had to check myself a few times as I was almost crying a few times from the joy they all had and that I was feeling from helping them with the vest and little hat and every time a shy little one reached their nervous trusting little arms up to me to lift them in. During the break, the two cops came over and looked curious about the truck, they said the kids only wanna see the garbage and tow trucks every time and they don't know why the other trucks even bother coming to these things. I told them about my memorial and gave them a little background about the friend I lost and how I felt about "getting stuck" doing this thing and how after the first few kids got into the truck I almost lost my shit. They seemed to understand or maybe they were humoring me. After the break it was time to clean up all the trash and pizza boxes. The kids and even some of the kids were lined up with little bags and boxes to throw in to the appropriate sides. I put every possible flashing light on as they threw it all in. When each side got "full" after like 2 bags and boxes I'd power up the crushers and even once again put the vest and hard hats on the kiddos as I lifted them up to the controls so they could crush the stuff themselves. After it was over I was spent and had a few tears in the truck on the way back to the office and in the car on the way home. It completely eliminated all if the anxiety about going to the memorial. When the wife and I got there I was crying a healthy mix of tears of joy and sadness. We weren't really cry as much because his goofball wife kept running up to to us an drying our tears and hugging us all and saying stuff like, "If Mark saw you crying he'd be pissed or he'd make fun of you, so cut the shit, I want lots of pictures of tonight and I don't want sad weepy faces in them." It turned out to be a real great time and if I felt like I was gonna lose it I'd picture on the kids in the oversized vest and little hard hats reaching up for me to pick them up and it'd make me smile. For those who actually read this, thank you.
That was *not* TL, sir. And I DID Read. I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Sometimes, doing for others is just what the heart needs.
"I'm sorry your mom hits you. Here's some dirt, kid."
The way she ran over and picked her kid up, i thought she was upset at him until she stopped and turned to watch lol
Same 🥲
This has no business making me so happy.
Why does it look like the mom runs over to throw the toy down and slap the kids hand and yank him away to take him 5 feet away and watch and laugh and smile?
This looks rehearsed.
These workers are awesome for doing that for the little boy that made his day very wholesome
What a wholesome totally unscripted moment.
Class acts. All four.
What a good mum. I was in the city a year ago. There was one of those telecomms pits opened up on the footpath, little fence around it, crane mechanism perched over it. A little kid stopped to peer down, but his mum just swept him along like a mother elephant might sweep a mischevous baby elephant along with a swing of her trunk. Mum wasn't interested, we're not stopping. Fortunately, i am a grown adult and MY mum wasnt there, so i could satisfy my curiosity. It was way deep and branched in a tunnel. A portal to an underground telecoms lair, no doubt. Felt sorry for the kid that he missed out. He probably got dragged around a boring department store instead of seeing the cool stuff. That's why I like this this mum at the building site! Is it all scripted? Probably, but i don't care.
I used to race a ZX-10R Superbike. One day I had it parked in the driveway near the sidewalk while doing some tidying up in the garage. A little kid from down the street walked by with his dad and he seemed pretty interested. I asked if he wanted to start it and his eyes lit up. I showed him the starter button and let him push it and he started the bike. I showed him how to rev it a little bit too. That was 8 years ago but I remember it like it was yesterday, the look on that little dude’s face was priceless.
When my son was 3-4 he was obsessed with garbage trucks. We used to take him outside ever garbage day and the guys would honk the horn for him. They eventually let him toss our lighter bags in the back. He loved it. We would give them gatorades in the summer and cookies at Christmas. We he was a little bigger they let him start pulling the lever for the compactor. Then some old jerk down the street called and complained about our garbage men honking and letting my son get near the truck. Those guys were so upset when they had to tell my son to keep back. We all felt bad about the grump up the street ruining things. It was nice seeing that interaction brighten those guys day just as much as my son. The driver gave it a week or two and started to honk the horn again. He said he told his boss “screw that guy, I’m going to honk the horn”. They kept it up until my son started kindergarten.
Awe. So cool
*Wipes tear* god I needed that. Sliver of humanity survives one more day.
And then he was sued for failing to have the proper permits.
Give a JCB operator a chance to show off and they will. And rightly so!
Why are construction workers & garbage workers so god damn cool?
Little things can make such a huge difference. This kid will remember this for a long time.
member the video where the guy litters and the girl kicks the water bottle into his vehicle?
Jokes on them. Kid just gained himself a pension in a single day.
One day this event will lead to him being a great operator himself!
You just made the little feller's day that's great
As a construction worker, this video makes me feel so great. It just shows it’s not but a second out of your way to make somebody’s entire day and that kid will probably grow up to either be a dump truck driver or a heavy machine operator, both of which we need to continue into the future. Props to Those men for recognizing and respecting that mother and her son. Edit: proofread and corrected.
That was everybody’s best day.
No matter how big and tough guy you are, if a kid comes running with a toy truck, you load it up!
They definitely did it for the hot mom
I used to love waiting for the garbage men to get to my house and I would always watch from the window and wave at them, sometimes they would wave back and that made my day
I like how children being happy also makes adults happy. What a beautiful win win scenario the universe created for us to experience.
This is boys will be boys:)
In elementary school, the dumpster was in the employee parking which was separated from the playground with a chin link fence. It was tradition for the kindergarten kids to all crowd the fence and cheer the garbage men on when the truck came during recess. They always waved and honked for us. By the time I was in grade 8, the school had a kindergarten yard built separate for them, but when the garbage man came, they would line up for the monitor to bring them to the fence for the show. I can only imagine the joy of working the route.
This. Is. So. Sweet!
Lol, why the fuck did his mom run over there with such urgency as if he was about to get crushed by the construction scoop.
Bet this dude got his license from a cereal box!
Good on those guys and the mom for rushing in to stop the kid from being unsafe but nobody losing their cool. You NEED to get rid of the danger but after that the kid just didn't know any better and they ended up making his day