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Rumble Strip

Dry Wall

Rumble Strip

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2014

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The Great Wall of China was built with no mortar. Scott Carrier's wall was also built with no mortar. Here's his story.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Rumbel Strip, Vermont, America Heilman.

0:05.0

A dry wall is built with no mortar.

0:09.0

The stones are carefully selected and they interlock and gravity holds them in place.

0:14.9

The Great Wall of China was built this way.

0:17.5

Scott Carrier's Wall was built this way too.

0:20.8

Here is his story.

0:30.0

One time I had a girlfriend who told me, if you ever start feeling really neurotic,

0:32.0

the best thing to do is paint your walls white

0:35.2

and buy new sheets for your bed. She said it worked for her, and I believed her.

0:41.3

Last year I had a job. It's not important what job it was. What's important is that I thought it was going to be the job of my life, the job of my dreams.

0:51.0

Last year I had this job for a few months and then I quit. I won't bore you with the details. I quit my job and was feeling really neurotic so I tore down our house. Actually I just gutted the

1:06.0

inside tore down the ceiling and all the lath and plaster on the walls tore up

1:11.9

the floors ripped out the furnace. I ran new wires, rebuilt the

1:16.6

kitchen, sheet rocked, and taped and sanded, and then I painted the walls white and

1:21.9

bought new sheets for the bed. But it didn't work. I was

1:26.1

pacing around a lot late at night. I was moaning and groaning in the shower. I was

1:31.3

scaring the kids. This is what my son told me one morning at breakfast. He

1:36.2

was four years old at the time.

1:38.2

Dad? Do you know what, Dad? Do you know that, you know what dad do you know that you know what I do to you want gonna do today?

1:48.0

I'm gonna tear down the house and I'm gonna tear down you too. You know how? With my ice axe.

1:57.0

You know what?

2:00.0

He was just four years old and I don't really think he wanted to kill me

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