When I was going to High School, I worked in a stock room but didn't have a lot of extra to throw around. We had a small pin ball joint close to school. At that time many of the pin ball machines were a nickel. Thats were we hung around at lunch time.
I used to collect the knock outs from electrical boxes, take them in the garage and file them to a perfect nickel. Then, the next day, I was a Pin Ball Wizard.
The old Chinese man who owned the joint must have freaked when he opened the change boxes and saw 1400 slugs in there.
The guilt after all these years was just too much, I had to tell you guys.
Just the other day, I was waiting in line at a change machine, behind a blonde. I noticed that she kept on putting one bill after another into the machine.
I was running behind a bit and wanted change to buy a Pop. So, I asked her how long she was going to be. She turned around to look at me and said, "do you mind, I'm winning".
if these guys had to work hard labor
I would think that most of us on AZ have been working our 9 to 5, shift work all our lives. Whatever, its like being in the military, you don't have to like it but you have to do it.
I started working when I was 14. We weren't rich. I had to if I wanted extra. I think the worst thing that ever happened was to get rid of Chain Gangs in prison.
Now its almost like Disney Land in smaller jails in Canada where you do 2 years less a day instead of a Federal Pen.
TV, game room, internet and phone access etc. Get out there in the hot sun or 30 below. Dig holes and when you are done, fill them back in and start a new one. Beak rocks with a sledge hammer. Make jails a very unpleasant experience and chances are, a large percentage might not want to return.
Now, you can go to jail, get 3 squares a day and come out with a University education.