As he was driving to work, John sippied at a cup of coffee and wondered what the day would bring. So much had changed in his 40-plus year career in construction that it kept him constantly wondering what would change his ‘normal’ this year.
Just looking backwards at traffic was something that had taken a while to get used to. The first pickup truck he drove for construction was a 1983 one-ton stick-shift with a fond memory of brakes and a clutch so heavy that he swore it made his left leg bigger than his right.