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When I was a kid, my dad used our wheelbarrow as a grill.

I'm writing all these down.

When I was a kid, my folks added on to our house. The contractors forgot/left behind a rather shabby wheelbarrow, and a huge sawhorse-style scaffold. Best toys ever. It's a wonder every child in the neighborhood didn't break a leg.

Other than the drink, that was me awhile ago, cept my wheelbarrow is gray. You can't sit long like that, that front edge cuts the circulation and both legs go to sleep.

I've put a lot of hours behind a wheelbarrow and except when they were new I would have stayed cleaner sitting on the ground.

Depends on one's level of commitment to "gardening" I suppose.
'Round here, I've always found the tractor seat
far more comfortable. The cup holder is handy too.
On the other end, 6 (yes six) gallon bucket, AKA "pickle bucket" is the preferred impromptu material handling/furniture item.

Some tools have warning signs on them, like the wheelbarrow, an eight pound hammer, hods and trowels, a six-foot Johnson bar, everything that has roofing tar on it.

The Germans that coined this phrase musta meant viewing it, not doing it:

Arbeit macht das Leben süß.
Work makes life sweet.

"How come I've never realized this alternate use?"
You don't get out much...

You don't do a lot of outdoor work that involves a wheelbarrow and hard, tiring, sweaty work?

You do get out a lot and do a lot of hard, tiring, sweaty work and your wheelbarrow is so dirty, grimy, icky that you would never sit in it? Wouldn't touch any part of it except the handles?

Sort of like my wheelbarrow.