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Old 08-22-2014, 12:13 PM
 
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for me cant really think of any really funny moments.
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Old 08-22-2014, 12:20 PM
 
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I was one of the shift managers for a huge truck stop many years ago and it was busy all the time.
Part of being a manager was running the cash register on the gasoline side of the truck stop while the cashier on duty took their breaks.

So, I am running the cash register and have some gal come inside all excited about her trip, it is the first time she is going on a road trip by herself, she packed lightly, had her vehicle checked for safety, got all of her travelers checks in order and received her Passport so she was ready to hit the road.

Behind her in line are about 7 truck drivers so while I am ringing up her transaction I ask her where she is going that she needed to get her Passport. I'm thinking she is driving into Mexico or Canada. I about fell over and had to use every ounce of control I have not to fall down laughing when she told me she was going to ...........

New Mexico and that is why she needed her Passport.

I said "New Mexico"? she replied yes and was so excited because she was going to get her "first stamp" on her Passport in New Mexico.

I told her to have a safe trip and the drivers behind her in line were literally on the floor with tears in their eyes barely breathing from laughing so hard and so long.
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Old 08-23-2014, 05:01 AM
 
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Our Drive-thru has a sloped cement barrier on the opposite side of the window. Someone's car got stuck because they hadn't been paying attention and had driven over the barrier. I've been off work, but I saw a guy with a U-Haul truck that couldn't fit under the maximum vehicle height of the drive-thru and had to get out of his truck. Lol. He probably should have just gone inside to order.
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Old 08-23-2014, 05:04 AM
 
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I alternate on whether this was funny or sickening or both.. about 6 or 7 years ago.. I was decommissioning an office for.. I think it was a medical billing office. They were shutting it down, I was to go in and pack up all the IT equipment and ship back to the main office.

There were kleenex every 2 or 3 feet down a hallway.. Apparently someone there crapped his pants
Didn't the EPA get in trouble for that this past year?
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Old 08-23-2014, 07:24 PM
 
Location: SW Florida
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Back in 1975 I was working as a decontamination specialist in a nuclear station. We had these contractors come in to do some kind of job and they had NO radiation training. We had in the past uncovered all this really weird old radiation protection equipment in a shed out behind the plant. Anyway, when they sent these guys to us to get outfitted for working in the reactor we got them to put on these totally ridiculous looking huge lead lined jocks over the tops of their coveralls.
They looked so funny we had a very hard time keeping straight faces as we sent them out to the service area to meet up with their escorts. All hell broke loosewhen rad control saw these guys. It got worse when they asked them WHY they were wearing these things. The foreman said, "those guys in the safety shop told us our dicks would fall of if we didn't wear these things. LOL it was too funny.

We got a major lecture and slaps on the wrists for not being "professional".
Sounds a little like the time, as my husband tells the story, that he and a couple other electronics technicians in the Navy were training some of the new recruits on the job-this would have been in the late 1960's- early 70's. He says they sent a guy down to the stock room to find a "fallopian tube" to bring back.
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