Finally getting a day off in 2 weeks and I need it. Laid out a coworker last night who hid in the back of the truck to scare me and his prank backfired pretty badly for him.
On reflex when he popped up and yelled to scare me I spun with an elbow as hard as I could and ended up taking his chin. He also had yelled as I was trying to back up though so when I sent that elbow (and I SENT it. Too many years in martial arts has me on a hair trigger with fight or flight reflex stuff) I braced it with my legs and ended up stomping the gas. We hit the hillside and the guy hiding to see the whole show laughed their ass off as the truck slammed into the hill and the other dude dropped across the back floor board. So there I am in the side of a hill with a dude moaning and laughing as his buddy cracks up at 2 am last night as I'm asking if he's okay or bleeding and wondering what the fuck is with my job.
Control room laughed their ass off when they saw that the end result of trying to sneak up on me was a muddy tailgate, a carved up hill, and a swolen faced coworker. Been a running gag forever that I did kung fu and wrestled for some reason with these guys. They never really believe that the nerd in the group did anything before this job for some reason (dick measuring football rednecks. Go figure...) so now the story is I "Done did a JUDY CHOP" to the two of em. Glad I didn't catch his mouth or nose or it would've probably did some real nasty work. They'd stolen the electrician's cart to sneak up on me and hide in my truck and apparently their vehicle died in the attempt meaning I had to tow the vehicle back for em and sneak it back to the electricians. I purposely drilled every speedbump as the other dude sat in the seat stearing it behind me and bounced his ass across the roof for all that. Apparently the bumps jolted the shorted engine back to life though so hey the carts back and running and they're none the wiser for my efforts.
But hey...on the plus side Andy Bogard would've been proud of that one. Leveled him in the face with that one so its kind of like I got to do some KOF training last night at least.
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