The Flagman At Home
Clare Briggs
Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.
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It’s pride in one’s work.
They don’t come home and say “I do a bullshit job for bullshit bosses and get bullshit pay”, they take their jobs seriously and talk about the nuances of what they do that others just don’t appreciate.Report
They’re also talking about working in jobs that were vaporized by a little metal box hanging in the intersection years before we were born.Report
Along the same lines, ‘I’m carrying on the tradition of the family business’ struck me as odd, considering we’re only about 12 years passed the start of the Model T rolling out of the assembly line in mass quantities.
(I suppose flaggers may have been used in city centers for deconflicting non-motorized transport & streetcars)Report
According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of the term “flagman” in the sense of rail or road traffic control was in 1832.Report