a bad day
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Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana. He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an e-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station that was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won.
Hi Sue,
Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother.
Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all. Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job.
As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wet suit. This time of year the water is quite cool. So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature..It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose.
Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints.
What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet suit. This floods my whole suit with warm water.. It's like working in a Jacuzzi.
Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. With in a few seconds my butt started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened.
The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it.. However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate.
When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my butt.
I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically.
Needless to say, I aborted the dive.. I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression.
When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet. As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber.
The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut.
So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt.
Now whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish bad day?
May you NEVER have a jellyfish bad day!!!!!
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Re: a bad day
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At least no one peed on it. XD
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Re: a bad day
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That'll definitely put things in perspective.
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It probably didn't rank too high on the jellyfishes' "best day ever" list either!!!
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Re: a bad day
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EEEWWWWWW, Sea Critters in your shorts, and every body knows about it now
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It probably didn't rank too high on the jellyfishes' "best day ever" list either!!!
Now that's a Gary Larson point of view if I ever heard one.
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Re: a bad day
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EEEWWWWWW, Sea Critters in your shorts, and every body knows about it now
But in the process you have obtained the best inappropriate dinner conversation topic ever.
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Re: a bad day
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It probably didn't rank too high on the jellyfishes' "best day ever" list either!!!
Now that's a Gary Larson point of view if I ever heard one.
I always root for the underdog... or the team whose quarterback has the best butt.
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Re: a bad day
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#263723 - 01/29/2010 04:51 PM |
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EEEWWWWWW, Sea Critters in your shorts, and every body knows about it now
But in the process you have obtained the best inappropriate dinner conversation topic ever.
No no, my daughter has this one beat with her 1970s news story of an elderly dog owner dead of a heart attack in his NYC apartment, hot summer, bloated body bursting at the seams, dogs in the home having run out of food .....
I'll just say that the dogs survived just fine.
Her favorite story, I think.
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EEEWWWWWW, Sea Critters in your shorts, and every body knows about it now
But in the process you have obtained the best inappropriate dinner conversation topic ever.
No no, my daughter has this one beat with her 1970s news story of an elderly dog owner dead of a heart attack in his NYC apartment, hot summer, bloated body bursting at the seams, dogs in the home having run out of food .....
I'll just say that the dogs survived just fine.
Her favorite story, I think.
I guess I should have clarified fancy dinner inappropriate talk vs inappropriate bar talk... *barf*
Yes I've heard a similar story involving a crazy cat lady who had a stroke.
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