Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:49 am
I've been away for a while as I went through a low patch after the death of my wife.
Anyway things are starting to look up (despite just being given the heave-ho by my employers) and I thought I'd share a couple of stories with you - I hope I haven't told them before?
My brother-in-law has just left his job, he liked the work and was a hard worker, but the transport manager was a ********. His job was delivering huge generators to hospitals, universities and so on when their power failed.
One job was at a well known university in the midlands. The chap supervising operations was the head of department, PhD, brain the size of a planet. David turns up with the generator, and Dr Brain says "we want it in that courtyard there". David looks at the entrance and says "It'll never go in there". Dr Brain argues the point, and David gets out his tape measure, and demonstrated that an 8'6" wide lorry won't go through a 7'6" wide gap. "But that's the only way in!". David walks through the archway, and into the courtyard. At one side is a roadway, with no obstructions at all. "Why can't we bring it in that way?"
"But that's the way out".
Anyway things are starting to look up (despite just being given the heave-ho by my employers) and I thought I'd share a couple of stories with you - I hope I haven't told them before?
My brother-in-law has just left his job, he liked the work and was a hard worker, but the transport manager was a ********. His job was delivering huge generators to hospitals, universities and so on when their power failed.
One job was at a well known university in the midlands. The chap supervising operations was the head of department, PhD, brain the size of a planet. David turns up with the generator, and Dr Brain says "we want it in that courtyard there". David looks at the entrance and says "It'll never go in there". Dr Brain argues the point, and David gets out his tape measure, and demonstrated that an 8'6" wide lorry won't go through a 7'6" wide gap. "But that's the only way in!". David walks through the archway, and into the courtyard. At one side is a roadway, with no obstructions at all. "Why can't we bring it in that way?"
"But that's the way out".
