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Originally posted by Df7:
Back to running. Anyone running outdoors in this weather ? .....
walkies doesn't count even @ 6am ?
..... I'll do my recovery thing (6.35) round the block ce soir...... full battle dress a must ......
sorry you're havin a bad day...... it could be worse!
grommit
+Subject: FW: You think you're having a bad day???
>Are you having a bad day?
>
>If you don't laugh out loud after you read this you are in a coma!
>This is even funnier when you realize it's real! Next time you have a bad day at work ... think of this guy:
>
>Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana.
>He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an
>E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 On
>FM dial in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, who was sponsoring a worst job Experience
>contest. Needless to say, she won.
>
>Hi Sue, Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I
>had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at
>work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize
>it's not so bad after all. Before I can tell you what happened to me, I
>first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job.
>As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to
>the office. It's a wetsuit. This time of year the water is quite cool.
>So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered Industrial
>water heater. This 0,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the
>sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to
>the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose. Now
>this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with
>no complaints. What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is
>take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wetsuit. This floods my
>whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi.
>
>Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to
>itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse.
>within a few seconds my butt started to burn. I pulled the hose out from
>my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened.
>The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my
>suit.
>
>Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't
>stick to it. However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate . When I
>scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the
>jellyfish into the crack of my butt.
>
>I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator.
>His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five
>other divers, were all laughing hysterically. Needless to say I aborted
>the dive.
>
>I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops
>totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin
>my chamber dry decompression.
>When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass
>helmet. As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter
>running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it
>on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out,
>but I couldn't poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut.
>
>So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much
>worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt.
>Now repeat to yourself, "I love my job, I love my job, I love my
>job."Now whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish
>bad day?
>
>
>
>May you NEVER have a jelly fish bad day! +