Don't mess with old guys A strong young man at a construction site was bragging that he could out-do anyone in a feat of strength. He made a special case of making fun of one of the older workmen. After several minutes, the older worker had enough. 'Why don't you put your money where your mouth is,' he said. 'I'll bet a week's wages that I can haul something in a wheelbarrow over to that building that you won't be able to wheel back.' 'You're on, old man,' the braggart replied. 'Let's see you do it.' The old man reached out and grabbed the wheelbarrow by the handles. Then, nodding to the young man, he said, 'All right, Dumb azz, get in.'
AH! A thread for wheelbarrow stories, eh? This is a story of an old Finn that worked at a U P mine. (true) The foreman wheels a brand new wheel barrow into the work shaft and the Finn eyes it and says he's going to take that home with him. His buddies say there is no way you will be able to get it past security at the gate where they walk out to the parking lot. He says let me worry about that. End of the shift comes along and everyone but the Finn leaves.....he starts to load up the new wheelbarrow with a bunch of scrap metal. About 15 minutes after the end of the shift, he starts to wheel out the wheelbarrow loaded with scrap. Security stops him and says where do you think you're going with that? He replies My foreman said I could have the metal so I brought in a wheelbarrow to bring it to my truck. Not without a permission slip you don't said the security guard. Nothing leaves here unless you have a permission slip!...... The old Finn looks at him for a short while and says Aw, Hell with it and walks over to the side, dumps out all the metal and wheels the wheelbarrow out to his truck! Now tell me Rotti, how do you like that one??
One wheelbarrow says to another wheelbarrow "what's goin' on?" The other one says...."I wheelie don't know." Haiku-ish.
That is sort of like the old joke about during the war a man kept on every night on the way out, had a wheelbarrow full of sawdust. Security went through it but could not find anything hidden. This happened night after night after night. After the war ended and things began to settle down both the guard and the worker retired. One day they met at a bar and the security asked the man, "I know all those years you were stealing something but try as I might could never catch you stealing anything; just hauling out sawdust. Please tell me what it was you were stealing." The man answered, simply, "I was stealing wheelbarrows."
