Working Men

So, the septic system didn't pass inspection and needed repairing.  It's the kind that has an areator or some such thing and the motor wasn't working on it any longer.  Two guys showed up to make repairs.  One, an old codger with a few teeth missing wearing a battered cowboy hat, his belly hanging over a pair of multi-colored work pants.  The other, his apprentice I guess.  A slender boy with an earnest look in his eyes...maybe in his early twenties wearing dirty jeans and needing a haircut badly.   After digging down to the system they extract the thingy with the motor on it.  Sure enough, the motor refused to start.  I was then instructed to go into the house and turn the breakers off because "no teeth" decided it must be in the wiring to the house.  We turned the breakers on and off about ten or twelve times.  Finally, with a sputter the motor started working and the codger told the boy to put it back in the hole.  Yowwww!  It shocked him.  I didn't realize until then that the boy's true talent lay in acrobatics!  Back to the breakers.  There must be a short.  Finally the old guy says he thinks its all fixed now.  The motor is working so he tells the acrobat to touch it and see if it shocks him again.  The boy says no.  NO???  "No Teeth" has this look of unbelief on his face...."I said touch the @*&^@!)))(*& thing and see if it shocks you.  The boy looks around....I could almost hear his mind working...what can I do to get out of this.  Finally, he blurts out to toothless...."YOU TOUCH IT"  I cannot say here what toothless then says to the boy with the earnest eyes.  BTY, I neglected to say that during this whole episode it is raining.  I am standing on the front porch all nice and dry as they work with water sliding down there faces.  When I can stand it no more I yell from the porch to the boy standing in the rain "Remember there are saftey rules to protect you", gaining a threatening look from toothless.  The boy doesn't get it.  After a while the boy rocks on his feet for several minutes looking for all the world like a golfer getting ready to putt, and then gingerly reaches for the motor.   The motor works.  It does not shock him.  Everyone explodes into relieved laughter.  The inspector who has been standing in the rain watching all of this in his buttondown white shirt and blue slacks gives his blessing, the motor is once again laid to rest in the earth and all is well with the world....and the septic system.