Manual Labour

Looking out the restaurant window, I didn't understand why the young fellow was stacking bricks, two by two. It looked a bit like child's play -- until the reality hit me.

With one rope and a strong back, each man could hoist more than 40 bricks . . .

. . . and carry them up several flights of stairs to a renovation job. While one carried a load upstairs, the other stacked the next load, which he carried. No Workman's Compensation here. And no work boots: one wore sandals and the other worked in bare feet.