Blinker fluid

[jscheck]

I've known new Airmen to be sent for a few yards of flightline.

 

[yaktamer]

Reminds me of the time in basic training when the drill sergeants sent some poor naive recruit all over the training range trying to secure a can of liquid squelch.

 

[soFlaNative]

Smoke sifters and snipe hunts.
Not every one get the One Delta Ten Tango memo.

 

[Bugkiller99]

Polka dot paint was a product we got in with new employees at the old hardware store.

 

[vonn]

Lots of funny things in this post!

 

[joe44va]

Glad to see it's in stock again. I used up the last of my blinker fluid freeing up a fragus pin in a steam hauler last year.

 

[chuckie]

Back about 60 years ago when I was in the Boy Scouts I got sent to find 20 yards of shoreline.

 

[Golddollar]

Back in the 60s', I was sent to get a sky hook.

You should have asked Kareem Abdul Jabbar for one!

 

[SC_Mike]

I see its the tactical black variety. Prolly costs twice what the regular blinker fluid.

I gave up looking for the 2x4 stretcher years ago.

 

[doublesharp]

New guys at the produce warehouse were sent after the pallet stretcher.

Also send em after a case of muckets.

 

[amazingflapjack]

Sometimes it is important to be clear in our instructions to new folks. A friend who was a Forman at the post office sent a Temporary Christmas hire out to make the afternoon mail collection from a route of about 20 mail boxes. He gave him the collection route map and told him to "collect these boxes." The lad was a stout farm boy and returned a couple hours later and reported into the Forman that "I got most of them, but some were in concrete...

 

[Sistema1927]

From my high school days: "Your Johnson bar is dragging - you better pull over and stop right away!" Hollered while passing a little old lady driving quite nicely....

John

I had a Johnson bar, in my 1962 Cessna 172. Sure beat electric flaps, since I could grab hold of that thing and get the amount of flap extension that I needed immediately instead of waiting for the "ying, ying, ying, ying" sound while actuating the flap switch on the panel. of newer birds.

 

[oldbrownhat]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the Turbo-Entabulator: [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag"]Turbo-Entabulator[/ame]

 

[Old TexMex]

Carefully studying a chart of the western Gulf of Mexico, a young deckhand pointed to a "secret spot" his previous captain had let him in on: "the annual decline".
We nodded sagely.....

 

[Golddollar]

Sometimes it is important to be clear in our instructions to new folks. A friend who was a Forman at the post office sent a Temporary Christmas hire out to make the afternoon mail collection from a route of about 20 mail boxes. He gave him the collection route map and told him to "collect these boxes." The lad was a stout farm boy and returned a couple hours later and reported into the Forman that "I got most of them, but some were in concrete...

This reminds me of an old George Burns and Gracie Allen routine. George found a box full of used batteries in the house and asked Gracie what they were doing there. Gracie said, "You always said to save the batteries."

 

[PALADIN85020]

When I was in high school, some friends of mine called a lingerie shop to ask if they carried any "Erin go braghs".... I was told they were put on hold for a few minutes while the shop employees checked!

John

 

[NYlakesider]

Back in the late fifties and 60s it was quite common for phone pranksters to call a tobacco shop and ask "Do you have Prince Albert in the can". After someone would reply yes the prankster would reply well then you had better let him out.

Now with all the trackbacks for phone calls most of that nonsense has disappeared!

 

[muddocktor]

They have several that they used to do to newbies in the oilfield. One favorite is sending the new guy to get the "key to the V-Door". Now the V-Door is the ramp they pull pipe and other things up from the ground to the rig floor, but there is no door or storage under it. This one is still done occasionally on the rig.

Another more physical one was to tell the newbie that the water table needed water in it so he had to go fill it. Now the water table is the platform at the top of the derrick that holds the crown sheaves that cables run through to the traveling block, which is what raises of lowers the pipe in the ground. And there is no place for any water whatsoever up there. So the poor schmuck would climb the ladder to the top while bringing up a 5 gallon bucket full of water and find out there was no place to pour it into.

The "Get me the skyhook" trick is also used on the rigs; that's another fun and harmless one.

One more that is funny as heck is they get a new guy to reply yes to driving a nail blindfolded. If necessary, they have another hand try to drive a 60 penny nail into a board with a 8-12 lb sledgehammer blindfolded first, to egg him on. They start a nail in the board, then ask the schmuck for his hard hat so they can blindfold him and hold it so it doesn't fly off when he is swinging. Once he's blindfolded and in position to swing, they quietly put the guy's hard hat where the nail is and then tell him to give it his best shot! If the guy is accurate, the hard hat is totally blasted apart.

 

[WardenRoss]

True story. My girlfriend asked me if she needed to rotate the air in her tires.

Yes, she was a blonde!

 

[LVSteve]

Sending new folk out for a bag of holes or a metric adjustable wrench is always fun.