[MKSixer]

Originally Posted by chief1richard

Retired for two years now after serving in the Boston Fire Department for 33 years.

Originally Posted by Murf993

Good for you Smokey!

Originally Posted by infinitekidM2C

Don't get him all fired up...

Originally Posted by fiveohwblow

You guys are gonna spark something in him.

Originally Posted by M_Six

Blame Murf. He was the first responder.

Originally Posted by Murf993

I hope nobody minds if I smoke.

Originally Posted by fiveohwblow

Blaze away, friend

Originally Posted by pennsiveguy

"Smoke 'em if you got 'em."

Originally Posted by M_Six

Beat me to it.

Just when you think it's hit rock bottom in here, you guys blow the floor out one more time.

If you can't be 'em, join 'em.

I was really fired up when I read these responses.

[JP10]

Originally Posted by MKSixer

Just when you think it's hit rock bottom in here, you guys blow the floor out one more time.

If you can't be 'em, join 'em.

I was really fired up when I read these responses.

Y'all need to relax, reading all of these is burning me out

[pennsiveguy]

Originally Posted by IllSic_Design

Train(bogie/truck) inspector

Ah...you're a choo-choo checker.

[Joekerr]

Originally Posted by MKSixer

Just when you think it's hit rock bottom in here, you guys blow the floor out one more time.

If you can't be 'em, join 'em.

I was really fired up when I read these responses.

At least they went out in a blaze of glory...

[wcr3d]

You guys are burnin down the house!

[M_Six]

It's all smoke and mirrors.

[fiveohwblow]

Bit hazy trying to find the direction of this thread really.

[M_Six]

I believe it's about what we all do for a living. Quite obviously a bunch of us are not comedians.

[vreihen16]

Don't give up your day jobs.....

[JP10]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

Don't give up your day jobs.....

Right, definitely don't want to burn that bridge.

Alright that's enough puns on my end, enjoy your weekends guys haha

[IllSic_Design]

Originally Posted by pennsiveguy

Ah...you're a choo-choo checker.

Yup, but I wish I was a chichi(spanish slang) checker... lol

[Noneya]

Originally Posted by SCKOMS

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon

What are those gigantic metal studs(?) going through that person's entire face for?

[pennsiveguy]

Originally Posted by IllSic_Design

Yup, but I wish I was a chichi(spanish slang) checker... lol

A friend of mine had that very job. He was a tour production assistant for a bluesy-metal rock band back in the early '80s when they were touring. Their stage show featured scantily clad dancing girls on one of their signature hits. My pal's job was to travel 1 or 2 towns ahead of the tour and recruit girls from strip clubs. And acquire weed. He'd roll into town with a pocket full of $100 bills and have a blast, courtesy of the band.

[IllSic_Design]

Originally Posted by pennsiveguy

A friend of mine had that very job. He was a tour production assistant for a bluesy-metal rock band back in the early '80s when they were touring. Their stage show featured scantily clad dancing girls on one of their signature hits. My pal's job was to travel 1 or 2 towns ahead of the tour and recruit girls from strip clubs. And acquire weed. He'd roll into town with a pocket full of $100 bills and have a blast, courtesy of the band.

haha oh wow, that sounds like a hell of a gig. Definitely wouldn't mind doing that for a little while back in my 20's lmao

[kanovic]

Originally Posted by StatenEye

I'm always ordering things, like a few packages a day.. Do you get annoyed with customers like me? I feel ashamed when I see the driver, I try to be nice an express gratitude but I feel bad inside. UPS is great I never have an issue... USPS on the other hand lost 4 out of my 5 last orders and 2 phone returns to ATT.

I personally don’t. I like my customers and you build a relationship with them. Especially during Christmas my customers give me gift cards etc and that makes a world of difference to know you’re appreciated. I have a few house that literally have a package everyday and I do wonder what people can order every single day lol.

[spazzyfry123]

Mechanical engineer with industrial and electrical engineering as an add. Currently manage an area for a top medical equipment manufacturer. I spend a lot of my days in cardiovascular, electrophysiology, neurovascular, interventional radiology, special procedures, and general surgery.

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by kanovic

I personally don’t. I like my customers and you build a relationship with them. Especially during Christmas my customers give me gift cards etc and that makes a world of difference to know you’re appreciated. I have a few house that literally have a package everyday and I do wonder what people can order every single day lol.

We used to get at least one package every day. Wifey is senior editor for a journal that reviews new books. Publishers send her books (or they did) virtually every day. We currently have 15,000+ books in the house. But the pandemic really changed the publishing world and pushed a lot of them into e-books, so now we don't get as many books delivered.

[pennsiveguy]

Originally Posted by fiveohwblow

Bit hazy trying to find the direction of this thread really.

Yeah, it's hard to see through the smokescreen.

And as the old saying goes...where there's smoke, there's fire.

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by kanovic

I personally don’t. I like my customers and you build a relationship with them.

Our regular UPS driver had to deliver my IV bags and medical supplies to my house every Thursday morning for over two years. Expedited first-stop delivery, refrigerated, cannot freeze, the whole gamut of special handling. I met him at our front door at 7:30 AM on Thursdays like clockwork, and he saw me with the IV infusion pump "albatross" around my neck and knew that I was not in good shape.

The doctors took me off the IV infusion at about the time that Amazon shifted from UPS to USPS for Prime shipping, so the driver did not have any stops here for a few months.

He was making a delivery for someone else on our dead end road one afternoon when I was coming home from work, and he stopped as I was getting out of my car to say how happy he was to see me alive. When he didn't see the Thursday IV deliveries, he assumed that I had passed away since it was supposed to be a lifetime IV treatment!!!

[SCKOMS]

Originally Posted by Noneya

What are those gigantic metal studs(?) going through that person's entire face for?

dental implants to support teeth

[M_Six]

When I started with UPS in Germany, I was a helper for the driver who had the huge Nürnberg pedestrian zone on his route. He could only drive on the cross streets which were several blocks apart, so I would load up a huge two-wheeler with packages and work my way down the pedestrian zone from business to business delivering packages and picking up new ones. Then we'd meet at the next crossing and I'd load up again. I lost 30lbs in the two months I was a helper before I got my own route.

One day I had a COD package for an address in what is known as The Wall in Nürnberg. It's basically the red light district. The COD was a couple hundred DM, which was pricey. I went to the address and the door was locked. When I rang the bell, a...um...lady of the house came to a window to see what I wanted. I showed her the COD package and asked if she knew the person it was addressed to. She said yes, grabbed the package, and disappeared inside, closing the window. I was like, oh shit, now what do I do? I waited there for a few minutes trying to decide what to do when she came back to the window with the money and thanked me for delivering. That's just one of many really unusual deliveries I had in my time with UPS.

[SCKOMS]

Originally Posted by M_Six

I gotta think that involved some serious pain.

Surprisingly not that bad