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Posted by Ron in AR on December 03, 2005 at 17:07:09 from (66.82.9.85):
In Reply to: Smart alecking... posted by Ol' Rog on December 03, 2005 at 12:47:43:
When I was in my early 20s, I worked at a pottery for a short time. The group I was to work with when I started sent me after a left hand pipe wrench to tighten a left hand theaded bolt. So I went looking.... in one of the back store rooms. After several hours the foreman found me and asked me what I was doing. So I told him. He asked if I was really that dumb. I said "Nope, but those guys are working twice as hard keeping up without thier 4th guy on the floor. Maybe they'll think twice next time". He laughed and told me to come on out before the end of the shift and don't do that any more. I went back about an hour before the shift was over. Everyone was pi**ed and wanted to know where I was. I just told them that I had to go all the way over to the next town to order that darned wrench. They didn't mess with me any more after that.
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