Just like always, we arrived at work before any of the others. We walked through the gate as usual. We waved, “Hello” to the gate guard. He waved back, and we kept on walking. We went to the plans table where the plans for our work were kept. We memorized how the weights were arranged that held the plans down against a stray wind. Without rolling up our trouser legs we each wrapped a sheet of construction plan around our shins to see how high up it would come on our shins. On all of us except...