Daily Chuckle

[Daren Todd]

Fun fact: When I was in the Army I lived off post for a while. Nice older couple. He told of being a young mechanic, and they had a customer who was a royal pain in the patootie. I'd guess this would have been back in the 40s or so. So they dropped a large ball bearing into a section of iron pipe, welded both ends shut, and welded it crossways under the car.

Thunk. Thunk. Every turn, every time.

Shortly after a buddy of mine graduated the Ford Assett program at community College and became a Ford technician, He had an elderly man show up complaining of a Clunk, Clunk sound when he entered or exited his driveway.

My buddy drove him home in his car to diagnose the issue.

Sure enough, he heard a large "Thunk" come from the trunk area of his car.

Buddy hit the trunk release and found a loose bowling ball rolling around in the trunk

 

[Daren Todd]

Fun fact: When I was in the Army I lived off post for a while. Nice older couple. He told of being a young mechanic, and they had a customer who was a royal pain in the patootie. I'd guess this would have been back in the 40s or so. So they dropped a large ball bearing into a section of iron pipe, welded both ends shut, and welded it crossways under the car.

Thunk. Thunk. Every turn, every time.

I had a guy at work think he was funny and put a glob of grease under the door handle of my truck.

I had a bag of industrial zip ties in my truck. So I did what anyone else would do and climbed under his truck and connected a bunch of them to his drive shaft

For giggles, I slapped an apple in his tail pipe as well.

He had his stereo cranked so he didn't notice anything until the apple popped out of the tail pipe.

He turned his stereo down and heard the slapping of those industrial zip ties.

Instead of pulling over and inspecting for himself, he panicked and drove to a quicky repair shop instead.

Mechanic grabbed his keys from the counter, pulled his truck in the shop while my coworker was giving the counter guy his info.

Well, the mechanic comes back into the office from the shop, red faced and barely holding his composure.

In a semi composed, but reddish face, he gets my coworker, all the office people, the rest of the mechanics in the shop, plus any customers in the waiting area, and has everybody come out and inspect his truck on the lift

I wished there was some way I could have recorded that phone call I recieved shortly afterwards That was absolutely epic

 

[Lil Foot]

I had a guy at work think he was funny and put a glob of grease under the door handle of my truck.

This reminded me of an absolutely epic prank i saw when I worked in production machining.

There was a guy working (I use the term loosely) there who was not very well liked.
He spent very little time working and lots of time sucking up to the bosses: paling around with them, bringing them gifts, bringing them coffee, etc..
He was bucking for a supervisor job, so he decided to dress up: while the rest of the shop wore coveralls or jeans and t shirts, he wore leisure suits- light blue, pink, white, yellow.
He kept them pretty clean because he didn't do much work.
One day, he left his machine for his twice daily 30+ minute bathroom break.
One of the guys put a bead of Prussian Blue under every handle & lever on his machine.
For those that don't know, Prussian Blue is a very permanent dark blue metal dye that comes in a toothpaste type tube, with about the same consistency as tooth paste.
He came back and started running his machine, also doing all of his common nasty habits.
He picked his nose, scratched his balls, picked his a$$, scratched under his armpits, etc..
All while wearing that banana yellow leisure suit.
Everybody in the shop could see what was happening, and everybody was dying trying to keep from laughing.
Eventually some women walking by started pointing and laughing, so he went to the restroom and checked himself- blue hands, blue nostrils, blue crotch, blue a$$ crack, blue armpits.
He spent an hour in the bathroom with a couple supervisors & a bucket of acetone, but to no avail.
He was gone for about two weeks, and then we heard he had transferred to another plant about 5 miles away.
It was cruel, but God, it was funny.

 

[Toyboy]

When I had a real job, there was a fellow, good guy, but a trickster that was a devil at times. He would squirt one or two pumps of way oil the the change return of the coffee machine. Way oil has the consistency of STP. when a unsuspecting person went to retrieve his change, his fingers came out with stringy way oil on them. Juts like mozzarella pizza does.
When you really wanted to mess with someone that was a PITA, they would put Prussian blue on the phone earpiece... what a look.

The one time I was targeted was when I was new to QC as a line inspector. I was certificating torque wrenches and the grease/oil guy put grease on the handle of the cart I was using. He was standing about 30' away with a couple of his friend laughing about it. I walked over to him and spread the grease on both lenses of his safety glasses and walked back to my cart. He laughed like hell at the retribution and we became fast friends and I was never bothered again.

 

[skeets]

You guys are too much, so I will toss in one from when I worked underground. At the mine I worked at they provided trailers for changing and showers until they erected a dedicated bath house. Well each guy had 2 lockers, just we had like high school, one for your clean clothes the other for your pit cloths, and by the end of the week the pit clothes were pretty ripe, if you didnt change then out. We had a guy that wore the same pit clothes for a couple weeks and it was nasty to say the least even just walking past his locker. There was a stray cat that hung around the lamp house and one week end someone picked the cat up. And put it in this guys locker with all his dirty cloths. Monday morning, I was working midnight so I missed it, this guy came in to dress for his shift, opened his locker the cat bolted out, and you can imagine the stench that came out ! He dumped his pit clothes in the dumpster, and went home. When ever his clothes started to get a little ripe,,, someone on the shift would start to meow a couple times, and next day clean pit clothes.

 

[DaOtherOne]

 

[Lil Foot]

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I have seen that exact scenario.
I serviced and calibrated fiber optic filament fusion splicers for the last research lab I worked in.
I designed a cart to move the splicers from workstation to workstation.
It was 28" x 50", formica topped, & held the splicer, computer, keyboard & monitor.
It had a power strip like the one pictured above and about once a week I would get an emergency service call that the splicer didn't work.
It was plugged into itself.
Not once, or twice, but dozens of times.
Same girl, every time.
A DEI hire for sure.

 

[Lil Foot]

The other prank that would occasionally crop up was to take DUXSEAL (a gray putty-like stuff originally designed for sealing ducts; we used it for coolant dams & vibration deadening) and soak it in VARSOL.
It became like snot, and then guys would put a blob of it in a length of 1/2" conduit and shoot it across the shop at each other like a blowgun dart.
Very messy & hard to clean off.

 

[xrocketengineer]

The roll out of Columbia from the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) for its first flight was a significant NASA milestone. The orbiter had been ready for roll out for hours waiting for the scheduled time for the VIP's to be there. In the mean time the technicians did nor have much to do. So the forward fuselage techs decided to get creative and have their own little celebration. Back then we used a lot of play dough to measure gaps between panels, sealing surfaces etc. (eventually replaced with dental mold that was much more accurate). So, at least one of the techs was very skilled and made about 10 totally different and highly detailed gargoyles about 6 inches tall each out of play dough. They set them along the inside of an I beam flange a few feet apart that was located about 7 ft. high. Then they wanted and insisted to show their handy work to any non VIP that would show up to the OPF. I was one of those and I stood in front of each gargoyle admiring the very intricate art. When I finally reached the last one, I got soaked with water. The techs had rigged a very long thin plastic line through the mouth of the gargoyle connected to a very large syringe filled with water. Then they would laugh their a$$es off every time they got somebody soaked.

 

[chim]

I can sympathize with a rear tractor tire. Just last night I was getting filled with glycol. It all leaked out.

 

[GreensvilleJay]

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you can do that with a UPS and it'll run for HOURS

 

[dirtydeed]