Post #125435 by spy-tiki on Sat, Nov 13, 2004 7:29 PM

I dropped out of college once because I ran out of money. I got a job at a book warehouse and was driving everyone crazy because I'm not really the warehouse type and can be more than a little obnoxious sometimes.

Anyway, a truck driving and delivery position came up and they gave it to me to get me the hell out of there. Fine with me, but I'm not really the truck driving type either.

Anyway again...one day I backed the truck up to the metal roll up door to load books for the day. I'd gotten too close and the lip of the door was catching on the bumper so I had to go back and move the truck forward.

Now what you have to picture is a half city block warehouse with 6 or 7 foot book shelves, full of books, lined up in alternating rows the length of the warehouse. Something like dominoes...see where this is going?

So I was getting ready to move the truck forward... It wasn't a well cared for truck and the idle was very high. SO...when moving the automatic shift from park to drive you have to go through reverse...

Upon hitting reverse the truck jumped back about a foot. This was enough to take the rolling steel door off it's track and knock over the boxes of books I was supposed to load. They in turn hit the first row of shelves, which in turn hit the next row, and so on, and so on...

The echoing sound of the shelves crashing into each other and tumbling over punctuated by the occasional screams of the warehouse workers diving for their lives struck me as hilarious for some reason and I sat there in hysterics as everything went to hell around me.

This is how the management found me when they ran out to see what disaster had occurred. Needless to say they didn't find it quite as amusing as I did and let me go on the spot!

It still gives me a pretty good chuckle!