<HTML><BODY> <div></div> <div> </div>   -----Original Message----- From: Phkitty2@aol.com To: Wimblees@aol.com; slomotion@charter.net; Myjan55@aol.com; GodfrBri@aol.com; Gearyhts@aol.com; kdguy@sbcglobal.net; keith235@yahoo.com; MUSICA4U@aol.com; mabace@bama.ua.edu; Rasammy@cox.net; wels@citlink.net Sent: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 12:37 AM Subject: Bad Day at the Office <STYLE> .AOLPlainTextBody { margin: 0px; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px; color: #000; background-color: #fff; } .AOLPlainTextBody pre { font-size: 9pt; } .AOLInlineAttachment { margin: 10px; } .AOLAttachmentHeader { font: 11px arial; border: 1px solid #7DA8D4; background: #F9F9F9; } .AOLAttachmentHeader .Title { font: 11px arial; background: #B5DDFA; padding: 3px 3px 3px 3px; } .AOLAttachmentHeader .FieldLabel { font: 11px arial; color: #000000; padding: 1px 10px 1px 9px; background: #F9F9F9; } .AOLAttachmentHeader .FieldValue { font: 11px arial; color: #000000; background: #F9F9F9; } .AOLAttachmentHeader a, .AOLImage a { color: #2864B4; text-decoration: none; } .AOLAttachmentHeader a:hover, .AOLImage a:hover { color: #2864B4; text-decoration: underline; } .AOLWebSuiteCompose .AOLPicturesFullSizeLink, .AOLWebSuite .AOLPicturesFullSizeLink { height: 1px; width: 1px; overflow: hidden; } body { background-color: white; font-family: "Verdana"; font-size: 10pt; border: 0px; } .AOLWebSuiteCompose p { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; } img.managedImg { width: 0px; height: 0px; } img.placeholder { width: 275px; height: 206px; background: #F4F4F4 center center no-repeat; border: 1px solid #DADAD6 !important; } </STYLE> <div id=AOLMsgPart_2_7aef49c5-6932-473a-a0b7-e32dd54b35b3> <div>>Puts everything into perspective ... > > > >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!!!!! > > > > > >Donald W. 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