[kach22i]

I did a little prayer once on the job, and it worked!

It was 1979 I was 19 years old, and I just worked my third double (16 hour shift) in a row and turned around to watch the sun rise. My view from on top of the 3-story tall coke oven overlooking Zug Island was surreal. Right then I asked God to have me laid off so I could go to college.

I got sick from food posing the next day from something warmed up on the coke ovens, collard greens some black dude gave me. The forman would not let me get something to eat for the full 16 hour shift, I was ready to pass out and was having hallucinations. I called in sick for what turned out to be my last day. The next day they laid 3,000 of us steel workers off.

Good times.