It's a great story, but true? Check http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/diver.htm and decide for yourself. By the way, http://www.snopes.com/ is a great place for checking out a lot of this kind of thing. Aaron At 10:05 AM 4/5/2007, you wrote: >Next time you have a problem with one of the professors, or even one >of your clients, just remember this guy's dilemma. > >Have a great day. > >Wim > > > > > > > > > >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 the 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 $20,000 piece of equipment >sucks the > >water out of the sea, heats it to a delightful temperature, and 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 rear end. > > > > > > > >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 jellyfish bad day!!!!! > > > > ------------------------------------------ Aaron Bousel Registered Piano Technician, Piano Technicians Guild abousel at comcast.net (413) 253-3846 (voice & fax) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20070405/43dd2885/attachment.html
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