April

Back to work is always interesting.

I am NOT going to rant about work - I am NOT going to rant about work.... ok, repeat after me...I WILL more than likely rant about work.

Some of the stories that I have heard from the guys this hitch....

Couple of the guys that I crew change with, they say at a different hotel closer to the heliport. The company has changed hotels since the last time we came to work the last time. I was asking what they thought of the hotel they were staying at, compaired to the one they had previously been at.

Apparently these two guys were going to go to the bar for a few drinks (not apparently - but commonly). One of the guys has to be mid-40's the other early 50's with very noticeably gray hair. The "younger" of the two is a heavy heavy drinker and also one of those people that is medicated (no, for real) for the good of man-kind. The other one is a standard beer drinking fool. For the sake of describing each of them lets call the older one "Don" and the younger one "Mike".

So...., Don sees a couple of young ladies headed to the bar - he says they "were not bad lookin women". When they go into the bar - it is nothing but ooollllddddddd women. And as "Don" says Ugly Ole' Women. He apparently had never been in a place when you walk through the door all heads turn toward the door. He said they felt like cheap meat.... [There are many stories that can be told about these guys - I will work on that] These old women were asking them to dance - which, they said that they were afraid they might break a hip. They said the bathroom even had the elevated toilets along with the hand rails..... Bet they don't think it is so bad in the next 20 years - when they are using those elevated toilets and rails!!!

Another story about "Mike". He was telling me about returning a dvd player that he bought at the house. He said that he took it back to the store, it was only a week old and had broke. The store refused to return the item, since he did not have the original box. He asked them if $176 was worth them shutting the store down for three weeks to remodel? Because if they did not give him back his damn money he was going to run his truck through the store. The store manager apparently took this as a threat - and told him that he was going to call the police. At which time, he told them that they might as well call a tow truck also, by the time the cops would get there he would have hung that truck up on something!!! He says, that by the time he got to his truck and had the front tires on the sidewalk - they had returned his CASH ! ! ! Good thing, huh...

Another one of "Mike's" favorite stories, is (on a different rig) when he put Alka Seltzer in his mouth (foaming effect) got a fire axe and went busting into a co-workers state room in his underwear. Acting as if he was looking for himself - generally, just being crazy.... It works for him....without the Alka Seltzer.