Jack felt extremely happy when he went to school the following morning. Everybody had been talking around the schoolyard about the new addition to the weight room, which was about to be completed that week, and Jack was certainly one of the first boys who wanted to be in line to be using the new facility the minute it opened up.
As soon as he arrived at school, he walked towards the weight room, where a large crowd had formed already. For the last three weeks, the electricians, plumbers and other carpenters had been working vigorously on getting the new facility ready for use by the students at the school. A large delivery truck had parked outside to deliver a container with all the latest exercise equipment, but everything was still packed up and wrapped in boxes and crates and pallets.
Several coaches were standing by the entrance to the room, talking to the Principal, when Jack arrived at the scene. Jack soon figured out what the problem was this time around: the electrical work and all the plumbing work had been done in the new room. The new carpet had been installed and all the lights and electrical outlets had been wired and activated as well. However, the men weren't there to unpack, move, and install the new exercise equipment for the gym!
Jack quickly walked up to the Coach and decided to ask if he could help out, since he was most likely the strongest student at the whole school and the only one capable of unpacking, carrying, assembling, and installing all the machines in the shortest amount of time.
"Coach! Can I help out?" he asked Coach Jones, the Football Coach.
"Are you sure you can handle it, Jack? A lot of heavy lifting is involved!"
"Yes, Sir! I can do it!" Jack replied, as he flexed his fox-biceps.
"Alrighty, then! Have at it! Here is the dolly and here is another metal cart in case you may need it. Have at it!" the Coach replied.
Jack immediately ran over to the large truck and opened the large, steel back door. Then, he raised up the back elevator from the back of the truck, and then he rolled the dolly on to the bed of the truck itself. He pulled the first two pallets on to the dolly and then rolled them down the elevator until he got to the ground. He then lifted them up with his bare hands and carried the pallets containing the heavy exercise equipment into the training room.
Jack made several trips from the truck to the new weight room, hauling the huge crates, boxes, and pallets until the new weight room, until the truck was completely empty.
Then, Jack started opening and unpacking all the pallets, boxes and crates, until all the machines, weights, and parts were uncovered. Everything consisted of weights, parts, chains, machines, and padded parts fit so that people could sit or lay on or in the machines during their workouts. Jack grabbed a screwdriver and a wrench, and he ran down all the machines and assembled everything one-by-one!
Finally, after everything was put together, he removed all the packaging, plastic, bubble-wrap, and scotch tape, and threw everything in the dumpster! The entire weight room was done! All the students were extremely excited and Jack was the hero of the day once again!
"Now you guys can use the weight room... All thanks to Jack! I guess Jack should be the first to work out in here!" the Coach said.
Jack didn't mind that. It was a lot of work, but in the end it was all worth it!
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