TROY AND THE "DAM MASTER"
One day when our company was out mining, we noticed that the water supply was lower than usual. This wasn’t good for our career because no water meant no mining.
Later on in the week, a distressed miner told us that another company had built a dam upstream. We decided that it would be Troy who would talk to them and try to sort things out. We weren’t completely sure about this because he wasn’t the best at negotiating, but in the end, he had convinced us to let him go. After all, he is usually really lucky.
When Troy marched over to the dam, an anonymous man asked him what he was doing. Troy asked the man, rather impatiently, “Do you know who built that dam?”
“That would be me,” the man said, proud of his work, but still a bit confused. “Why do you ask?”
“The dam has been interfering with our mining,” Troy said, “It would only be reasonable to take it down.”
“No,” the man said obstinately.
Troy seemed ready to explode, “Why not?!”
“Because I don’t want to,” the man said, and with that, he turned away. The moral of the story is that if you are unhappy with something in a mining area, call a camp meeting, and don’t try to take care of it yourself.