Coming to the Rural Areas

[Cameramonkey]

Steel mills are also good.
Although, with more cameras around...

"I dont get it, Bob. Our contamination rate is off the chart. I dont think we've ever had to skim off THAT much dross in our history.

And by the way, What is that smell? It smells like hot dogs in here?"

 

[Frosty]

If need be, afterwards I have access to a lot of trash trucks… ya know, for the hog farms…

 

[actaeon277]

"I dont get it, Bob. Our contamination rate is off the chart. I dont think we've ever had to skim off THAT much dross in our history.

And by the way, What is that smell? It smells like hot dogs in here?"

It'll go up in smoke, get collected by the air handling system, send to the gas cleaner, and turned to mud.
And smell? Umm don't smell things in the mill.
I haven't been there for 6 months, and I still barely smell natural gas.

 

[wagyu52]

Before covid my work would provide a wellness test, they would draw blood right at our facility. Would almost always be a nurse from Chicago or indy.

Had one from Indy that literally had to be talked onto the lot then escorted into the building, this is a fertilizer plant in the middle of a corn field. She had never been outside of the 465 circle…ever. She was as panicked as I’ve ever seen someone, they told us She quit the same day.

Another from Chicago could’t wrap her head around the lack of street lights and how we drove on dark roads.
And I think I live a sheltered life.

 

[Frosty]

Before covid my work would provide a wellness test, they would draw blood right at our facility. Would almost always be a nurse from Chicago or indy.

Had one from Indy that literally had to be talked onto the lot then escorted into the building, this is a fertilizer plant in the middle of a corn field. She had never been outside of the 465 circle…ever. She was as panicked as I’ve ever seen someone, they told us She quit the same day.

Another from Chicago could’t wrap her head around the lack of street lights and how we drove on dark roads.
And I think I live a sheltered life.

I have trained two different grown ass adults, both from Indiana mind you, and neither one knew what a combine was or what it was for How do you not get outside the 465 loop? There’s not that much to do in that city!

 

[snapping turtle]

FAFO (roughly freak around find out)

 

[Timjoebillybob]

I have trained two different grown ass adults, both from Indiana mind you, and neither one knew what a combine was or what it was for How do you not get outside the 465 loop? There’s not that much to do in that city!

My wife took a rural girl scout troop to the museum of science and industry in Cago. One of the girls was flipping out over the escalators, she thought they were the coolest thing and had never seen one before. They all thought the high rise stuff was cool, but they all wondered why people were checking out the tractor exhibit. The local HS has one day where the kids drive their family tractors to school. Different people are used to/exposed to different things.

 

[Cameramonkey]

My wife took a rural girl scout troop to the museum of science and industry in Cago. One of the girls was flipping out over the escalators, she thought they were the coolest thing and had never seen one before. They all thought the high rise stuff was cool, but they all wondered why people were checking out the tractor exhibit. The local HS has one day where the kids drive their family tractors to school. Different people are used to/exposed to different things.

But I would expect more out of a grown ass adult. I'm not surprised a "hick girl" would have that reaction. No good reason for an adult to have the same sheltered life.

 

[Timjoebillybob]

But I would expect more out of a grown ass adult. I'm not surprised a "hick girl" would have that reaction. No good reason for an adult to have the same sheltered life.

I agree, but I've met adults who've never been into a decent sized city, and some that have never been out of one.
It's a bit of a culture shock if you've never experienced the other.

For the rural GS troop they are from a okay sized town/county seat and a couple of small towns around it and had never been to a city larger than Lafayette. But for comparison size the population of the entire county is about the same as the population of the county seat where I grew up and it's not the most populated place in that county by a long shot. White co vs Lake co.

 

[Keith_Indy]

I guess I'm a lucky one. Grew up in urban/suburban Connecticut (low-mid income.) Went to college in middle of Pennsylvania with an Amish community next to it. Had to walk to the nearest mall (where I bought my first Gerber pocket knife.) College had as many people as the town it was in.

Also a computer geek who is good with his hands; construction, mechanic, welding, gardening, bush crafting. Not expert enough in anything but can do each enough to get by for stuff I've needed to do.

ADDED: My better roommates/friends were often from more working class; one was from a cow farm, another from a coal mining town. My favorite thing to do there was explore the countryside around us on foot. Dad started as welder at G.E., moved into motor pool doing limo driving, parking lot plowing, ambulance driving, drove Jack Dorsey and his arm candy down to NYC frequently. G.E. did good with their retirement plan for him. I was first to graduate in our family line.

 

[Timjoebillybob]

I guess I'm a lucky one. Grew up in urban/suburban Connecticut. Went to college in middle of Pennsylvania with an Amish community next to it. Had to walk to the nearest mall (where I bought my first Gerber pocket knife.) College had as many people as the town it was in.

Also a computer geek who is good with his hands; construction, mechanic, welding, gardening, bush crafting. Not expert enough in anything but can do each enough to get by for stuff I've needed to do.

I feel the same, I grew up suburban could leave the house and go through half a dozen other towns/cities and never leave town/city limits. Could make it to Chicago without getting on the highway. But we had family and friends that were rural. Some farmers, some who just lived rural and in much less populated counties, some long time family friends in the UP MI who owned a bunch of land with several ponds/lakes and wildlife everywhere including bears.

I will say you learn to figure out real quick just how bad you need to go when the "bathroom" is 50 yds away from the guest cabin it's the middle of the night and they were talking about how they had to shoot a bear that was getting too aggressive around the house the year before. Yeah I think I can hold it until morning, it's only a couple of hours away...

 

[Keith_Indy]

I feel the same, I grew up suburban could leave the house and go through half a dozen other towns/cities and never leave town/city limits. Could make it to Chicago without getting on the highway. But we had family and friends that were rural. Some farmers, some who just lived rural and in much less populated counties, some long time family friends in the UP MI who owned a bunch of land with several ponds/lakes and wildlife everywhere including bears.

I will say you learn to figure out real quick just how bad you need to go when the "bathroom" is 50 yds away from the guest cabin it's the middle of the night and they were talking about how they had to shoot a bear that was getting too aggressive around the house the year before. Yeah I think I can hold it until morning, it's only a couple of hours away...

One of my best friends husbands family owned a wilderness cabin in PA. Had a bear inside the outhouse the season before we took our 3 day canoe camping experience (complete with one near case of hypothermia.) Stayed overnight with a friend in rural CT, next morning had a racoon sitting in the drivers seat, hands on the steering wheel as another was climbing out of the car.