Worst job I ever had....

not the hardest, but worst, was moving sprinkler line in Alfalfa in the summer. Like you the humidity was unbearable... we don't have high humidity but IN an alfalfa field, a wet one, the humidity sky rockets. I'd have to drink gallons, no exaggeration, of water a day.

Which leads me to this story... at work one day, moving sprinkler lines... there were 3 of us pulling and loading, then unloading, the lines and one driver on the tractor pulling the trailer. He was 'upper management'. None of these guys I was working with, not even the driver, spoke a word of English. Well.... we ran out of water.

The driver had a full thermos. My co-workers hit the driver up for a swig of water... the driver refused... so we kept working but I could tell tension was growing. They hit him up again, (we were close to death from thirst).... no luck. The third time my co-workers asked for a drink the driver once again refused.... big mistake.

The two guys helping me on the ground went into a huddle... wasn't hard to figure out what they were talking about..... the driver, in mid-swig, was grabbed from behind, drug off the tractor, and got his ass beat. At which time the 3 ground guys, me included, satisfied our thirst.

I guess I was about 13-14 when this happened. - JamesJM