I got an oil change on the Marquis, as requested by Mr. Principe, and with it came a free car wash worth 8.00 bucks. The last time I got an Oil change I never used the free car wash coupon and I still think about it and get so angry at myself. Pretty cheap.
So I'm driving down the street and see more than a thousand guys sleeping in tents, playing football, drinking hard liquor etc. I walked over
"Uh, hey. Hello. Um, I work for a newspaper and I was sent over here to ask a few questions before I come back with my camera later on."
"We are all protesting women's rights."
Wiseass.
So I walk further down the block and ask a couple others and got the scoop that these were plumbers waiting to get into the Union.
When I had walked over it was Monday. (Labor Day) And hundreds of them had been waiting since early Wednesday.
It was basically a party. People offered me beers, hard liquor, burgers, pizza they'd had delivered.
The thousand people zizagged up and down five different blocks around the Plumbers Union office just shy of Queens Blvd.
When I came back with my camera the second time I remarked, "Hey, I work for the paper, I'd like to ask a few questions." and this one guy says to me, "Shit, they hiring?" And of course everyone erupted into massive laughter.



