Posted on 07/30/2003 6:52:31 AM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood
Yeah, so anyone who remembers me, I should be back till I get busy again. Sorry for the absence to those who have missed me.
I went to trucking school over in Medland Ohio. Nice state, nice place to raise a family, terrible experience. 3,000 bucks and all gone. I can back a truck up pretty darned good, but moving it forewards is another story.. needless to say I'm not a trucker because I have a tendency to put more gas to the pedal regardless of a guy sitting next to me giving me a test(examiner).
After that I got a pretty decent job at a gas station within a quarter of a mile of where I live. Awesome, my co-workers and I got along pretty good, even converted a couple to more conservative ways of thinking. This was a good job, 7.50 an hour and I tacked on roughly 20-30 hours of overtime pay to boot while looking for a second job! Put food on the table and I was able to save cash to boot.
Well all was well till ownership went to some East Indians who fired everyone. The day of the overtaking was exciting and here's why!
(Enter action movie-esque music here) I got jumped by two meth using tweakers on the side of the gas station. You see, attendant duty isn't all fame and glory. Ordered by the new wife-beater like district manager of the store to go clean some trash cans while he and 6 others of the new staff of the store and others they now own went about gabbing on what they were to do, I went outside to do as told to do, clean out already clean trashcans. Yeehaw! Well the two villians of this story were outside, hunkering down and watching the goings on between the middle-eastern types that zipped this way and that on their cell phones and talking in Arabic. When I came around I guess they figured I could be a good source of information if they threatened me. Everything went as follows.
Cleaning the trashcans was bad enough when I got asked by the larger of the two in a flagrent(sp?) way,"What the f*** is going on?"he really meant,"Hi, me and my friend here are really super hyped up on doofballs and paraniod over your new bosses."Well I didn't know so I said,"I don't know?" but I figured he wasn't really wanting that answer, turns out he didn't at all."Tell us what's going on or I'm going to bust you in your f***ing face!"yeah he meant that too. With my answer of "I really don't know." I got punched in the face and the back of my head struck the brick wall.(Ouch!To think I know how to do masonary work.)I lunged at the guy and he backpedaled, giving me an opening to my left which I could have used to flee to the front, but I was intercepted by his buddy, so I stuck a thumb in his buddies eye (Ouch!) which sent him howling and backing up holding sed eye. The second punch from the large guy was wild and missed, so when I turned to notice this, I saw the guys back and well, jumped on it with all 160 lbs of my weight. I hit the wall again while pulling a Mike Tyson/Hannible lecter inspired bite to the guys ear. Applying pressure to the fella in my arms I got stomped about a half dozen times on my side and back before working the fellow onto my chest to end the one eyed freaks assault. The guy in my arms couldn't scream otherwise he would have as I kept gnawing on his head, bloody mess! He started loosening up and going limp do to lack of oxygen and blood going to his brain while his buddy started yelling"Let him go! Leave us alone!" he landed a kick or two in my side before I moved the 190+lb body again to end yet another kicking spree. Angery at the one eyed guy and sated in the sound of a "pop" coming from the guys jaw as it popped up and out of place.. I let the fella in my arm go and stood to rush the kicker (sounds like football)who didn't think that facing off against an equal sized opponent was as cool as kicking him while he was down. So I let him off at that and ran to go use the phone assuming that the fellow I choked out would still be there for police to fetch him. Nope. Turns out I had a broken nose and a few cracked ribs on top of a mean concussion from my two trips to the wall.. adrenalin is a wonderfull thing as I didn't feel any pain. I filed a police report with BSPD and went home for a couple of hours rest. The new district manager left Tony(the old Manager) to work. Tony had already been there for 15 hours non-stop with the new owners staff. I came back to work, feeling like I'd been hit by a truck and worked with Tony the rest of the night.
As if getting to work on time the next day and the following shift after that I got fired on account of the new owners only wanting to keep those they can learn stuff from. They only kept one of our original crew who got promoted to Manager, who's there till they learn everything he knows about the stores systems.
So now, jobless and having a good amount of back pain I search for another job while trying for something I don't want, unemployment. The new owners will have to pay it out so I don't feel as guilty if I do manage to get the unemployment. Other than that I have mouths to feed and need to get off to another start on a day of job hunting.
Cheese.Can't wait to see how OU does this year.
Do you have any college?
Gas station attendant is not a viable career if you have mouths to feed, not to mention the violent assaults you have, and likely would again, experience.
I was making a good cut with that over time I had and I had play of the schedual too do to my dedication. Last weekend I was able to cut off for four days straight and had 45 hours under the belt (returning on the last day to do a third shift) so I could visit family down South in Oklahoma.
Turns out I have to use the money I saved to put towards stuff here. Next job I get I'll get those classes. Then after I get my own my woman wants to do the same, so annually we should pull in to being almost rich my Democrat standards annually.
Thanks for the response.
Cheese.
Libraries are free.
I'm not a democrat freeloader.
I have money and my woman has income as well. Just we both are looking for better.
Thanks for the response.
Cheese.Thanks Jim for Free Republic!
Good fun though, sort of miss the rush, but if it happens again I won't let the first punch strike my rugged good looks!
Haha!
Cheese!CFCs are now a good thing?Must inform the misses!
Made a smart move there, when dad and I had a masonary business back a year or so ago I had my dad holding onto a chunk of my change for just in case reasons. I can use it to pay for the classes, yet currently I am unable to contact my father do to him being the supervisor for John Stone Construciton. Last place they had him was up in good ol'Vermont. If I can I may be able to return and go back to Masonary easily. I tried it here locally, got two dead end contractors who didn't want to pay my young arse for crap regardless of the work I did. (Someone close the borders please!)
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Good Luck!
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Man oh man, Jims gonna love this!We'll make like this isn't a rule for now I guess.
Haha.
Cheese.Long time ago, in a galaxy.. no wait last month in my bathroom..sorry.
I gotta go for now, all this sitting around is making my butt sore. I'll check this again if anyone leaves more. See you guys in a few hours or more.
I'm slated for a second interview at Osco. Might not be much money made there, but I can budget better than anyone on the hill.(like that's hard?)
Again thanks and much love to ya Freep'n Nutties!
Cheese.Please: NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts.
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