How to catch a leprechaun
April 24th, 2007Ok so its not a leprachaun, but Jose is short, stereotypically mexican folks are a little shorter than the world average. Anyway, the neighboring business to us is a furniture store. They get a lot of furniture in boxes that are unconventionally big. Well in the trucking business we recycle cardboard by using it in between above around and under shipments during the loading process that protects it from damage. So we cut a deal with the furniture folks. Tell you what, you put cardboard only beside your dumpster, we’ll take it away for you. So everynight we send a guy or two down the entrance to gather this stuff up. One night, they threw it in the dumpster and this particular evening we were low on cardboard. So Jose going above and beyond decides to dumpster-dive for this stuff. Well he didnt realise how deep this thing was and he hopped on in to find he was way in over his head! So.. now the good part as if that wasnt funny enough, he is out there yelling for help to which no one comes to his aid, and yes, he has his cell phone! He is saved! So he calls up to the office from inside the dumpster and explains the situation. The supervisor on duty allready purple from not breathing because of the laughter.. asks him to repeat his situation and then turns the phone over to speakerphone and uses the next desk’s phone to broadcast what the poor man is saying over the facility intercom. Thank god he has a sence of humor when we still bust on him today about it!

