Road Guard
In a younger, randier life it didn’t take much for me to swell to embarrassment. Hell, as teenager boys are, sometimes it took nuthin! I was working with an asphalt crew, paving city streets. Wrapping up for the day included cleaning the paver and tools, maintenance, and keeping people off the hot asphalt until it had cooled enough to withstand the traffic. As the new laborer with the lowest pay (16), I was often chosen for this. One of these evenings, as dusk was settling, I was parked...