Buffalo Ron about to be pecked by the big bird - reflection on the upper deck.
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- Thread starter gggGary
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Not sure if this dude is about to try to hijack a plane or about to try to weld some shit.
Drink Wisconsinably??
I might bet on that.
I might bet on that.
The fact that he got out of his truck and moved the sign out of the way is the best part.
Back in the day (early 80s) my family ran a service station located just off a major highway. We had soda machines outside of the building, and when one or the other would stop working, we would tape the stiff paper portion of a credit card slip over top of the coin slot and write "Out Of Order" in fat magic marker.
Regularly, someone would push their coin through the paper and into the coin slot, then, when machine ate their coin, they would come and complain. The conversation would go something like this:
"The machine ate my quarters."
"I'm sorry, it's out of order."
"There's no sign!"
The person and I would walk over to the machine while I said something like, "someone must have pulled it off," only to find the paper still there with a nice coin sized hole in it.
"Yeah, see, it's out of order."
"Well, they should have made the sign easier to see!"
You're talking about customer intelligence? At one time, used to manage a bar-bistro place in St Andrews. Once on a busy weekend, sun was out, lot of people in, coffes, teas, milk shakes and we ran out of milk. So you put up a sign on the bar, telling people there's NO MILK.
'Ooh, can I have a chocolate milk shake please?' You point to the sign, right in front of them, 'Sorry, there's no milk.'
'Oh, well can I have a white coffee then?' 'Uhm, no - would you like a black coffee instead?'
'You don't perhaps have any milk for tea with milk?'
'Ooh, can I have a chocolate milk shake please?' You point to the sign, right in front of them, 'Sorry, there's no milk.'
'Oh, well can I have a white coffee then?' 'Uhm, no - would you like a black coffee instead?'
'You don't perhaps have any milk for tea with milk?'
Trust me you've been here:
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BTDT with various sorts of unfortunate things in fresh cuts.
No grease to the eyeballs, but did get some brake cleaner blowback...
No grease to the eyeballs, but did get some brake cleaner blowback...
Another one:
We're sitting around running our mouths since a big-ass thunderstorm has blown through and the power is out. A guy pulls up to the pumps, and I go to the door and explain we don't have power.
He gets out of his car and comes in.
"How long is it going to be out?"
"I don't know. The storm knocked it out."
"Do any of the other gas stations nearby have power?"
"Sorry, no idea. Looks like everything I can see is out, though."
"Are there any Exxons down the road with power?"
"No idea. Sorry."
"Could you call around?"
"Wish I could, but the phones require power." (back before cell phones were common)
"There's an Exxon in Kettering, do they have power?"
"No idea."
"Well I'm almost out of gas!"
I offer him a cup of coffee no charge and explain he's more than welcome to have a seat and wait until the power comes back on.
"But I'm in a fucking hurry!"
I shrug my shoulders. "I wish I could be of more help."
He turns to go, then turns back, "well, if Exxon wanted the power to be on, it would be on!" Then he storms out to his car and drives off.
This happens to almost everyone at least once, cuz you originally underestimate the pace at which brake cleaner sprays out. But...you remember for next time!
Unless it was a dedicated phone system network inside a business, normal landline phones did not require AC, but were powered thru the phone lines.
It was the Merlin system, thus it did require power (I did actually know what I was talking about).
Yay, good to know! Since the narrative did not indicate year, it was not possible to even infer what the phone situation was. And no gas station I worked at in the 70's had anything except a Ma Bell conventional landline.
Gotcha... I put the "early 80s" in my original story post, though this event would have been later (late 80s, maybe early 90s).
I was greasing the door hinges on a car when the straw came loose and the grease shot out of the can quite forcibly. It hit the jamb, and sprayed back into my eyes. Plural. I got both of them! Felt like I'd doused my eyes in gasoline, then set them alight.
I was the only one in the shop at the time, so I had to pry one eye open, figure out where I was, then head toward the back room. I'd take a few steps, pry an eye open, reassess my location, then move some more.
Washing them out got the burning to stop, but it took a while before the blurriness went away.
To be fair, I don't recommend it.
You should have offered him a second one and a ball of twine, since he wanted a phone so fucking bad.
When I was spraywelding as a career we used to use trichlorethylene as it was the best degreaser for cleaning down hole oilfield tools pre balst and then again pre spray. Would blow it off with compressed air prior to lighting up the gun. Got some in my eye one day and it felt like someone had stuffed a cutting torch into my eyeball ! Also used it post spray to ensure coatings had no cracks as it would evap last from a crack. If put on a hot manrel the fumes
would drop a guy to his knees. Even with a 36,000 cfm exhaust system. Kills almost anything alive if ingested. Almost impossible to obtain in a lot of places now. Pour it on most painted surfaces and the paint comes off. Kills Cnada thistle and dandylions on contact. Have read.
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