White slavery
After university, I went travelling for a bit and at one point found myself in the USA. I got a job on a farm in Virginia but this proved to be a mistake on account of it being incredibly hard work for little pay. The boss was an old southern farmer, who must have forgotten that slavery had been outlawed many years previously. I used to have to work my arse off from dawn till dusk every day, with no breaks for food until we stopped at the end of the day.

OK, there was machinery to do most of the big jobs, like harvesting the grain and so on, but when it came back to the farm I and another couple of student slaves had to move these huge bags of wheat around all bloody day. It was like something out of the dark ages.

Eventually, I had had enough, but instead of quitting, I took it further. I went to see the state representative, who actually listened to my story of antiquated working practices, and not only did he manage to sue the farmer, he took my case all the way to Federal government.

The result was a complete shut down of all trading of grain from farms in Virginia for a while, with all of the grain on the market coming from the midwest.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how I got the east wheat banned.

Oh, come on, it's Thursday
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 8:32, 2 replies)

*sadface*

( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 9:38, closed)

One more step along
the road of win, have a click you bar raising genius you.
( Funkenschlag still likes dogs more than cats, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 12:18, closed)