Help Wanted: Need Tongue Sewn Back On

[jmowreader]

I had to bite it so hard this morning it came off.

A customer came in to pick up his order. It was a big order and part of it arrived on the lumber truck from Charlotte this morning. Anyway, it took us about an hour and a half to get it together for him.

Said customer drove his Ford F-450 flatbed with diesel engine. It is a largish truck with a largish engine, and this particular specimen is covered in freeper bumper stickers. The kind that basically say you're either with Bush or Osama, and our American soldiers are above reproach--even Lynndie and NaziGirl.

He left the fucking truck running for an hour and a half while we were loading it. He had to have burned two gallons of diesel just sitting on my loading dock.

And all this time I'm sitting there on my Toyota forklift (enduring scowls from freepboy all this time because I was using a Japanese forklift to load him up--as in I get to choose the forklifts we buy) just wanting to scream out at the top of my lungs "turn off that fucking truck right now, you unpatriotic prick; there are Americans dying in the desert for the oil you're wasting so show a little respect." Since I like working at Home Depot, I felt it prudent to not do that.

And now I gotta get my tongue sewn back on. Is there a doctor in the house?

[olddem43]

1. That was a real dilemma

You're a better person than me. I don't have that much self control. I would have said something, even if it could have been characterized as a joke (later) to save my job.

[wryter2000]

2. You did the right thing

I think you need a :beer: to reward yourself.

[jmowreader]

3. I bought some Gilbey's on the way home

And ginger ale. GINger Ale...mmmm.