Oh come on. That is not true that no one works on Labor Day for starters. I did. This year. I didn't picnic or BBQ. And you're talking about a homeless man who can't get work. Labor Day is a big nothing day for many people. It's not Christmas. It isn't even Memorial Day with such meaning to it.
@Tresir may be in the UK but don't push a bunch of untrue stuff at her.
No offense, I can tell you and she'd agree that I and
@Tresir have butted heads and don't always have the same opinion.
@Regina has been here too and her and I butt heads once in awhile and for sure don't always have the same opinion but as you see we are all here discussing together.
Maybe it is unlikely wood delivered at night on a holiday but I can tell you flat out it has never been clear to me when this job was to be and I doubt it was to
@Tresir either and do you even know? I don't know either when he was to pick up mom's wired money, where or how he was to get there? When it came in, was it that night and he could have gotten iit then? Did he plan to the next day? When and how? I seem to recall mom was immediately worried as he hadn't picked it up and hadn't answered. Also what bus would he have taken and what day and what time because he did not pick up mom's money that night that's clear. Sooo there is much unclear and I can see easily why Tresir is thinking as she is, I could as well as we know NONE of these things.
Now maybe all the years of JT thread and talking with his mom and seeing tons of others things you know when the job was, what the job would pay, when he was going to pick up mom's money, when it came in, where he had to get it and how he was going to get there, etc. but I somehow DOUBT it. Because I doubt his mom knew when he was going to pick it up necessarily or every detail about the firewood job.
Tell me this, if the firewood job would as you said just barely cover the bus ticket, then there was no need to send money UNLESS he had SOME reason for not wanting to the do the job or some need to get out of town sooner. But then he didn't and he was murdered. And I think that's significant with its timing in his case. He simply didn't manage to go soon enough. It sure looks like that could be the case. So who is it and what was it he was worried about?
By the way I'll likely work next Labor Day too. And I'm sure people who need money would too, like Troy. No offense but are you living in the 50s where all have picnics, family get togethers and BBQs and no one has to work and every service industry is open and it's on a holiday that has no real significance to most? Many kids are back in school prior to Labor Day. Always been that way in my state.
Even those that camp are putting up their camper, pulling up their deck from their permanent summer spot and closing them up. MANY people are working at something on Labor Day or they're just doing nothing at home as it is the END of the summer season and the last day IF kids are out of school yet before next day IS SCHOOL so they're packing backpacks, making lunches, fiilling out tons of forms, etc., etc. The Monday, the actual day? That's when most have to travel home and are looking at real life about to intrude. Fall is coming, we need firewood, it is back to school and work, etc. Picnic? Lol. I guess there may be a few who do it on the Monday. But why? LOL.
And I'm sorry but Troy isn't living the 9 to 5 family picnic life nor are any truckers who are at the Pilot. Nor anyone looking to hire someone to deliver firewood. Think about it, someone ordered some, someone wanted someone to deliver it put to him on that weekend.
None of this is really worth time other than I think it really wrong and unfair you claim that's how it is in the U.S. and that's what we all do on Labor Day and said such to Tresir. It is sooo false. Did you have a big picnic with extended family or a BBQ? Maybe you did. If so good for you. In my family it would have been in my parent's generation and even then it would never have been Labor Day but either of the other summer holidays for family or extended family.
It isn't JT, no one's after you and I can get the argumentativeness or defensiveness or whatever but Tresir isn't after you, I guarantee you she digs and finds stuff. Even if you think the Greenway thing isn't related, look at the effort she is putting in. And I am US born and raised and I disagree with the Labor Day remarks and I disagree with the firewood job and whether worth it to someone with no money or that you could know what the pay would be.
