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  • God I can't escape the stupidity

    I was getting my hair cut and I overheard this little tidbit from the guy next to me.

    He works as a horse importer from Europe. He loves his job but just recently had a major issue. Due to the incompetancy of the feed delivery guys, his barn where he housed his horses burned to the ground. He was at a show with a client at the time. They were supposed to go to another show the next day. The client asked if they were still going, the guy said you gotta be kidding me, I just lost 9 horses, I gotta get home and take care of this. His client just gives him a disgusted look and says FINE I'll just have to take my business elsewhere.
    Losing faith in humanity, one customer at a time

  • #2
    The client was charming, wasn't he?
    Unseen but seeing
    oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
    There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
    3rd shift needs love, too
    RIP, mo bhrionglóid

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    • #3
      Quoth Ghengis51 View Post
      The client asked if they were still going, the guy said you gotta be kidding me, I just lost 9 horses, I gotta get home and take care of this. His client just gives him a disgusted look and says FINE I'll just have to take my business elsewhere.
      Jeez, kick the guy while he's down! No decency at all...
      I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
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      • #4
        I get the feeling that this is not the sort of person he'd want to sell a horse to.

        Rapscallion

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        • #5
          Yeah, cuz why would you want to do business with a person who actually cares about the animals he is handling?
          I don't go in for ancient wisdom
          I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious
          It means that they're worthy - Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"

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          • #6
            Oh those poor horses! How in the hell do you deliver feed and end up burning down a barn?
            Figers are vicious I tell ya. They crawl up your leg and steal your belly button lint.

            I'm a case study.

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            • #7
              Quoth Cia View Post
              Oh those poor horses! How in the hell do you deliver feed and end up burning down a barn?
              Off the top of my head?

              1) They dumped their delivery on top of (or dangerously close to) a space-heater of some kind
              2) One of them tripped over electrical cords, causing a short that ignited the straw and wood in the barn.
              3) Whoever opened the feed silo had an open flame too close (though that'd be *BOOM*, not burn)
              4) Guy flicked a cigarette butt that caught the straw on fire
              5) One of them said something so effing stupid the gods blasted the barn with bolts of fire and lightning trying to kill him before he could breed.
              ...WHY DO YOU TEMPT WHAT LITTLE FAITH IN HUMANITY I HAVE!?! -- Kalga
              And I want a pony for Christmas but neither of us is getting what we want OK! What you are asking is impossible. -- Wicked Lexi

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              • #8
                Quoth XCashier View Post
                Jeez, kick the guy while he's down! No decency at all...
                Well...what do you expect from a *jackass*
                Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines. --Enzo Ferrari

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                • #9
                  Quoth JustADude View Post
                  One of them said something so effing stupid the gods blasted the barn with bolts of fire and lightning trying to kill him before he could breed.
                  That seems the most plausible.
                  Unseen but seeing
                  oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
                  There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
                  3rd shift needs love, too
                  RIP, mo bhrionglóid

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                  • #10
                    what he said

                    Quoth JustADude View Post
                    Off the top of my head?

                    1) They dumped their delivery on top of (or dangerously close to) a space-heater of some kind
                    2) One of them tripped over electrical cords, causing a short that ignited the straw and wood in the barn.
                    3) Whoever opened the feed silo had an open flame too close (though that'd be *BOOM*, not burn)
                    4) Guy flicked a cigarette butt that caught the straw on fire
                    5) One of them said something so effing stupid the gods blasted the barn with bolts of fire and lightning trying to kill him before he could breed.
                    Actually what he said was that some of the hay that was delivered was damp and not cured completly and that led to spontaneous combustion. They had witnesses to the fire, it started on the haybale at the top of the pile. He's in the process of suing the feed company.
                    Losing faith in humanity, one customer at a time

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                    • #11
                      Ghengis, as well he should.
                      Unseen but seeing
                      oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
                      There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
                      3rd shift needs love, too
                      RIP, mo bhrionglóid

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