Tuesday, January 23, 2001

Let your fingers do the walking

Unless they've seen the trailer personally -- featuring the company name in large red letters painted on the side -- parked on a job site, no one believes me when I tell them about this business.



A few years ago, there was a nursing home being constructed across the street from The Complex, one of St. Louis' more popular gay dance clubs. The Big Boy Steel Erection trailer and several trucks also bearing the name were parked nearly every night throughout the summer, just footsteps away from hundreds of homosexuals. I would point them out to guys on the patio who hadn't noticed them, and the result was almost always a spit-take.

Over lunch yesterday, I was looking for something else in the Yellow Pages and ran across this listing. When I saw the street address, I spit Mountain Dew all over my computer monitor.