AfterDark
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Just got this email. Does this sound fesible?
> The Pain of it all, much more than a chapped butt
> It makes
> me hurt, just thinking about this.
>
>
> Having
> a bad day?
>
> 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 Laughline, 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
> crap
> 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 damn 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 I
> 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 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 5 other divers, were
> all
> laughing
> hysterically. Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was
> instructed
>
> to make 3 agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling 35
> 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
> get in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but
> I couldn't crap for 2
> days because my butthole was swollen
> shut. So, next time
> your having a bad
> day at work, think about
> how much worse it would be if you
> had a jellyfish
> shoved up
> your butt.
A screen on the intake would help, no?:shocked2:
> The Pain of it all, much more than a chapped butt
> It makes
> me hurt, just thinking about this.
>
>
> Having
> a bad day?
>
> 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 Laughline, 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
> crap
> 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 damn 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 I
> 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 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 5 other divers, were
> all
> laughing
> hysterically. Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was
> instructed
>
> to make 3 agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling 35
> 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
> get in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but
> I couldn't crap for 2
> days because my butthole was swollen
> shut. So, next time
> your having a bad
> day at work, think about
> how much worse it would be if you
> had a jellyfish
> shoved up
> your butt.
A screen on the intake would help, no?:shocked2:
