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08-11-2005, 11:04 AM
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Fired for hitting a Speed Bump!
XXXXX Van Episode I
My best friend and i got jobs as bellmen / van drivers at a local xxxx Hotel and Golf Resort for summer jobs when we were about 17. It was a dangerous mixture that lead to alot of damage and a lot of fun. Part of our job was driving an 18 foot extended van with businessmen to their destination and then back home each day. Well after we dropped them off we would **** around with the van doing stupid stuff like Brake stands, Transmission gear switching (Drive to reverse while doing 50) and eventually Jumps. We were getting more and more daring and one night while I was off and my buddy was on he was bored and picked me up. We went to a corner of the hotel where they were doing some construction. I was driving and said "Hey watch this..." I proceeded to drive backwards about 35 miles per into a pile of sand thinking the impact would be soft since it was... Sand. The next thing i know was the Van stopped on a dime when it hit the sand, we went flying around the cab, windows in the van broke and the big sliding door went "Whhhheeeeeewww" and was torn right off the van. I panicked and plugged it back into first and went forwrd running the door that broke off over and flattening it. Wouldn't you know right then his pager went off and they needed a pickup? He was frantic! The van looked just plain abused and covered in sand. windows broken and a missing sliding door. We quickly cleaned the sand off then van and my buddy had to go tell the night manager about the Van. Friend- "Ummm... there was a problem with the Van"... "The door fell off" Night Man- "What, what do you mean you just went up to the hill with people" Friend - "Well on the way back we went over a speed bump" Night Man- "What, I don't get it... what do you.." Friend - "Well the windows broke and the sliding door fell off and was then run over and that's flat now too." Night Man- "Over a Speed Bump!??" Friend - "Yeah really strange and we were going slow" Night Man- ... **eyes up in the air** Friend - ....*silence* Night Man- ... "Speed bump?" Friend - "yeah..." Night Man- ... " A Speed bump?????" Friend - "It's an old van..." Night Man whispers- 6 months old...**eyes still up in the air** My poor friend took the bullet for me and was fired the next day. Last edited by forumadmin; 08-12-2005 at 02:43 PM. |
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08-11-2005, 12:21 PM
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funny funny
you should have gotten that on tape that would make a good episode of jack A$$. you would think sand would be soft but just like a snow bank its not soft at 35 MPH lol that is classic. tho good thing you diden't get thrown from the van or worse. lol that being said you were young and young people do stupid things with vehicles. when I was young I took my fathers 82, ford pickup and decided to run over trash can's needless to say this wasent the frist time so one of the people who we had done this to before filled there trash can whith about 90 pounds of mixed quickcreet concrete and lets just say that was a bumpy ride lol.
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09-06-2005, 12:14 PM
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Remeber reading about a simmiler trick for mail boxes. This only works for the ones that open at the the front, think old style farm mail boxes. Buy the largest one you can find, and the smallest, put the smaller one in the larger one and fill the space between them with concrete. Then wait and watch the pranksters try to knock it over. |
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09-08-2005, 09:40 PM
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09-11-2005, 05:39 PM
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That's just ridiculous and insane. You could have gotten into an accident and gotten hurt. What really tops off the carelessness is that it was someone's van, and that costs the company money, which in turn, costs money out of your own pocket, though not directly but maybe the boss was planning on giving one of you a raise and those actions took it away.
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09-11-2005, 05:57 PM
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Would have been a good clip on 'Cops' as they hauled you away for destruction of property and lying about it.
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09-13-2005, 03:35 PM
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A raise from 4.50 an hour to 5.0 even? They were Mcjobs for us during the summer. |
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03-06-2006, 11:44 AM
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It still cost the company money for the destruction of property. Believe it or not, that you do have to pay for repairs on cars and vans, especially when the door falls off and then you run it over. |
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03-06-2006, 01:28 PM
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03-17-2006, 11:30 AM
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I remember one guy got fed up with the kid's taking out his mailbox on the weekends, so he actually took the time to build a balsa-wood mailbox covered with paper. On friday afternoon he replaced his metal box with the fake paper one FILLED WITH FRESH COW MANURE!!
He got it on tape too...didn't press charges against the kids, but he did distribute the tape around the local high school. His box was never disturbed again.
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03-20-2006, 03:14 AM
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Oh my god!! That is great. I hope that tape makes it to the internet, I would LOVE to see it. Kudos to him!!
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