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Bloke In A Black Cap Declares Delusion The Starting Point Of Every Dream, Concrete Trade Confirms It Also Explains 'Home By Two'

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CAR PARK, BEFORE SUNRISE — Every pour in the country starts with a lie, and Willz has finally said it out loud from the driver's seat in the dark. "Delusion is where it starts," he wrote, in a black cap, with the dash lights off and the day not yet fucked. The trade has adopted it as the most honest thing ever said before a 5am start.

The full line goes on: dreams get built when you back that belief with action. Linehands have already translated it. The belief is "we'll be home by two." The action is standing at the end of a hose at one o'clock, watching a mixer that was meant to be five minutes away.

"I've believed it's the last stick six times today and I've been right exactly never," said one linehand, who has also believed the plans were accurate, the access was fine and the pump would start first go. "Delusion's the only reason any of us are out of bed."

A sports psychologist who has never waited on a truck in his life confirmed the model: belief gets you to the car park, and action is the part where it all goes to shit. Pumpers have been running on that formula since before sunrise, and the formula works.

The belief got him into the car park. The truck arrives at nine.

Satire, obviously.PumpLife is a satirical publication about the concrete pumping and concrete industry. The stories here are made up for a laugh and are not statements of fact. Any resemblance to a real operator, concreter, pump or smoko is a coincidence.

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