Playing Fred Sanford Now
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Yesterday morning I picked up my return load back North. Friday afternoon I called the place I was to be for the pick up, a towing yard of all places, and got directions. I agreed to be there at 8:00 am.
When I arrived a few minutes early I wasn't too shocked to find that nobody was there yet. I waited until 8:00 and when no-one had shown up I called the guy's cell number. The bastard was still in bed. I told him I was there waiting for him. He apologized and said he would be right there. He showed about 8:30.
I was picking up a CNC lathe which I was told needed to be tarped. When I saw the thing, sitting outside in the weather, all I could think was "piece of junk". Seemed like a real waste of time to tarp it but I did as the customer is paying for it.
We got it loaded after the guy finally got his junk of a forklift started up. The forklift had a wasp nest in it and there were angry wasps buzzing around the thing the whole time. The guy helped me get the tarp on the piece of junk lathe and I then called the receiving customer for directions as I needed to be there, North of Chicago, on Monday morning.
The guy asked me about the machine and whether it looked like a piece of junk. "Yep" was all I could reply. He didn't sound too thrilled having bought the thing sight unseen. Oh well, not my problem.
He said that I could deliver whenever I get there as he only lives 5 minutes away from the shop so if I get there this evening he will come and unload it. Cool. I haven't yet decided whether I'll get there this evening or tomorrow morning. I'm in KY right now and I'll just see how the day goes.
I spent last evening at a trucker's bar in Hurricane, WV and so am not as motivated today as I might otherwise be. Ah well, it was a good time. At least it was until the bouncer came on duty and started hassling me about my knife. It's a fairly small hunting knife in a rattlesnake skin sheath. At first he insisted that I take it back out to my truck. I refused saying that I wasn't going to walk all the way out there just to put a knife away that I really didn't want to put away in the first place.
He finally asked me if I would give it to the bartender to keep until I leave. I said ok, but never actually did it. When he came back again and got shitty with me I called the bar owner over and asked him to put a leash on his dog. He instructed the bouncer to leave me be as I was an old customer and not a trouble maker.
When I finally left I patted the bouncer on the shoulder and said "have a good night, junior". He looked pissed.
When I arrived a few minutes early I wasn't too shocked to find that nobody was there yet. I waited until 8:00 and when no-one had shown up I called the guy's cell number. The bastard was still in bed. I told him I was there waiting for him. He apologized and said he would be right there. He showed about 8:30.
I was picking up a CNC lathe which I was told needed to be tarped. When I saw the thing, sitting outside in the weather, all I could think was "piece of junk". Seemed like a real waste of time to tarp it but I did as the customer is paying for it.
We got it loaded after the guy finally got his junk of a forklift started up. The forklift had a wasp nest in it and there were angry wasps buzzing around the thing the whole time. The guy helped me get the tarp on the piece of junk lathe and I then called the receiving customer for directions as I needed to be there, North of Chicago, on Monday morning.
The guy asked me about the machine and whether it looked like a piece of junk. "Yep" was all I could reply. He didn't sound too thrilled having bought the thing sight unseen. Oh well, not my problem.
He said that I could deliver whenever I get there as he only lives 5 minutes away from the shop so if I get there this evening he will come and unload it. Cool. I haven't yet decided whether I'll get there this evening or tomorrow morning. I'm in KY right now and I'll just see how the day goes.
I spent last evening at a trucker's bar in Hurricane, WV and so am not as motivated today as I might otherwise be. Ah well, it was a good time. At least it was until the bouncer came on duty and started hassling me about my knife. It's a fairly small hunting knife in a rattlesnake skin sheath. At first he insisted that I take it back out to my truck. I refused saying that I wasn't going to walk all the way out there just to put a knife away that I really didn't want to put away in the first place.
He finally asked me if I would give it to the bartender to keep until I leave. I said ok, but never actually did it. When he came back again and got shitty with me I called the bar owner over and asked him to put a leash on his dog. He instructed the bouncer to leave me be as I was an old customer and not a trouble maker.
When I finally left I patted the bouncer on the shoulder and said "have a good night, junior". He looked pissed.
