[GreenKeys] Bidding Mystery

[hunybuny at eskimo.com]

Jim Haynes wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Chris Elmquist wrote:
>
> That reminds me of the old military fools' errand, where the newbies
> were given the job of separating the pink chad from the yellow chad,
> because the pink chad comes from classified messages.

Hey Jim;

And yah know - I'd always volunteer to do that. Also, to go to the
motorpool and get an *unopened* bottle of left-turn blinker fluid.
Or prop-wash (even though we didn't have a plane). Or when the 3-copy
Teletype paper came in and the carbon was on the outside, to unroll
it and reroll it so it was right.

And then, one day, while we're eating lunch, it comes up about "tony,
I can't believe how you fall for all those things!" - and they start
laughing. And then they're surprised that I join them. And when they
STOP laughing and I continue - their facial expression is priceless. And
then I say: "So - while I'm off on an expedition to find blinker fluid,
what are you doing? - you're working. I'm goofing off, B-S'ing with the
secretaries, drinking coffee, and carrying on. and YOU'RE WORKING.

I didn't get any more "fun jobs" after that...  :-)

UE,
W6ESE - tony
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