Uplifting experience

I stopped during my ride to watch a truck driver unloading some lumber for a new dwelling construction at the Copper Rock golf course development. I thought it was an uplifting experience, which was the kind of gag that Spike Milligan (1918-2002) might have written. I recalled an appropriate gag that Milligan did write: "We can't stand around here doing nothing. People will think we're workmen." (Neddy Seagoon, Goon Show s9 e04, 1959). Who knew that it was antonymic paraphrase that made the statement into a joke?