If I keep writing these letters of praise about the Mississippi Department of Transportation, pretty soon you all will think I like those folks. And you would be right.
A short while back, I wrote a letter about our road builders, thanking them for doing a job most of us wouldn’t want. They are out in the blazing hot sun all day, putting down asphalt or any number of fun jobs they have.
Just think of all the miles and miles of roads and interstates, and the hard work of these men, so that you and I would be able to enjoy them.
I have discovered some more MDOT workers to thank and praise. These were the ones mowing the grass on the banks of the road, in the ditches and beside the highway. Have you ever noticed some of those embankments they have to mow? Some seem almost like mountaintops.
It might not be the toughest physical labor around, but would some of you men who sit behind a desk every day in an air-conditioned office trade jobs with those MDOT fellows? Put it this way: I seriously doubt it.
I know you would say, it’s their job, they chose it and they get paid for it. But that doesn’t change the circumstances. And let me just say, I haven’t heard a one of them compain, and I don’t imagine I will.
Just remember: Even though you all probably don’t get a ton of thanks for the jobs you do, you absolutely do have our thanks. I imagine you would have a pretty hard time finding someone who wanted to take over your illustrious job. I guess this means that where job security is concerned, you all don’t have anything to worry about.
Like I said about road builders, I hope you get paid really well. As far as I’m concerned, you all couldn’t get paid enough.
— Debbie Touchstone, Jayess
