So a long time ago, before my internet dating days, before my move to Arizona, even before my first fast food job, I worked a summer on a construction site for a tile company. It was rough work: every day I went home filthy, sore, exhausted, and completely sick of mexican music. I’m pretty sure that was the summer I decided I would go to college and be a writer, and probably never touch a shovel again.

Housing communities are built in phases, so different homes have different crews working on them depending on which phase the house is in. Next to the house I was working on, concrete finishers were putting huge driveways in – now concrete finishing was the messiest job! While tile was rough, nothing was worse than being a concrete finisher. Concrete finishing is not only a messy job but long, tedious, and hard on your back. The guys would have to smooth it out manually using blocks of wood, trowels and who-knows-what-else. During our worst days my coworkers and I would say “Hey, at least we’re not finishing concrete!”

But a few days ago, during my minimum of 10 hours a day on the web, I found this thing called the Tibroc Radio Controlled Concrete Finisher – this thing is so cool! I had no idea concrete finishing could be so fun! This concrete finisher is remote controlled which basically takes the messiest job on the construction site, which is absolutely concrete finishing, and makes it the funnest job on the site. If the guys I worked near had the Tibroc Radio Controlled Concrete Finisher, and I am sure they wish they did, the tile company would have needed to find a new employee!

I don’t know how much this thing is, but I am sure it’s worth every penny. When you take into account the amount of time and the cost of labor associated with a big driveway like those poor saps I worked with, a concrete finishing company would be out of their minds not to own one of these. I think the only possible problem would be employees fighting over who gets to use it.

I included a picture of it in this blog, but you can find more info no their website: http://www.tibroc.com

You can also see some more pictures of it here: Tibroc Radio Controlled Concrete Finisher Gallery

I recently saw this thing called the Boyfriend Arm Pillow on www.activeforever.com and I think it is one of the coolest products around. Talk about a brilliant idea: ”Here honey, I’m off to go drink with the guys. This should keep you company.”

Anyways, I am sure it serves a useful purpose to single women (and the occasional guy), and I bet military wives whose husbands are overseas could find some use from it too. The woman in the picture on ActiveForever’s website sure seems to be enjoying it (note the hand position). And with a price of less than $40, it sure makes a great gag gift. Your thoughts? Check it out and let me know.

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El Computardo