(This post is 100% true and based on 100% true events. I am not making any of this up, nor am I embellishing anything. That being said……………….)
For work, I used to have to spend a great deal of time performing safety inspections for clients who were farmers and harvesters in Florida. During the scope of my work one day, I thought I was going to be raped.
I had to go see a client in Labelle, Fl who harvests watermelons. (Harvest is a more polite word for “pickers”.)
In Florida, we have tons of migrant workers who pick fruit and vegetables for mere pennies.
Anyway, I called the client and he arranged to meet me inside the front gate of the farm. Typically, a land owner will have several crews harvesting multiple food items on their vast property.
I pulled into the front gate and my client was waiting for me in a large, extended white van.
I walked towards the van and I could see a driver and another man sitting directly behind the passenger seat. The driver reached over, rolled down the window and told me to get in.
I got in and the smell of sweat, beer and body odor smacked me directly in the face. It was about 90 degrees out and these two men had both been picking in the fields for several hours already. Continue reading “nearly being raped (wash your vegetables)”
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