I Would Pull Five Hundred Miles...
Hmmm. Current Mood, slightly frustrated.
I realize that a blog with no postings is pretty boring so here is something to keep you entertained. The other day at work we were unloading spools of wire into one of our box trucks for storage. There were several pallet loads, so out of curiousity I started counting how many rolls of wire we had in the truck. I just counted one of the piles (we were separating them neatly so we would have easy access later on) and we had fifty 1000 foot spools. Using this as an average I figured that we had over thirty miles of wire on the site. Not that much you say? Enough to lay out end to end and cover from Chestnut Hill to Fairwood. Also I don't think the average single family house uses hardly any more than a mile if even that. So then I started thinking about the cost. I saw at Home Depot that the cheapest most common wire gauge sold at 78 cents per foot with a few of the types of wire selling for several dollars per foot. If only I had had the keys,hehehe. I did get a couple of company t'shirts though so that more than made up for it. I guess I'll just make my money the good old fashioned way, scamming people out of their hard earned dollars
15 Comments:
Hmm, wear some company clothes or steal some wire and get rich quick? Tough choice, ne?
Wesley!!!!! Had no idea you had a blog. I saw your comments a few times, finally decided that it must be somebody I knew and came to investigate. Yay!
I am guessing no one got the whole 500miles thing. Tho, I still say it comes to 1000 miles...
Wes - loved the title & immediately got the song stuck in my head.
DJ - you are wrong & you KNOW it. You must needs listen to the song again with an OPEN heart or just give up... That's an order from the Popette! And everyone who was there that night is on my side :)
(This whole Popette thing is pretty cool - if only people would listen to me...)
I underestimate your sneakiness! Apparently one has to check Derrick's boring listofblogs blog every day to be informed about the latest victims of the blogdom craze. Glad you're on board! (and still glad I'm not!)
You are truly an electrician, Wes. I'm pretty sure it would never occur to me in a million years to think about the length, cost, blackmarket value or otherwise of spools of wire. More power to you :)
I definitely got the 500 miles thing and thought it was quite clever... and accurate!
1000 indeed.
Of course I get the five hundred miles thing! ;0)
This is your blog Wes, so I wont say anything about cowards and anonymous and such. I know u like them. hehehehehee....
for a young man, i hope you are, and nto a freak, your job thought life must really rock when your into spooling it aftr work hours, of course pumping spools of wires will help your pecturals/biceps and make the yl,s swoon, and keep them asking for forbiddenliquid refreashment, so you can do a reject. chiao
Okay, Derrick: I'm Anonymous. Your high school lunchtime entertainment was picking a fight with me, but it hardly ever worked.
I'm anonymous too!!! Whoohooo...
Derrick Robin Jones,
I only heard said song about THREE times, so I have absolutely no opinion on the intended distance. I was merely commenting to Wesley that I recognized his literary allusion. You are STILL picking fights for entertainment, and I am still anonymous! :o)
*blush....forgot about the automatic thingy that identifies me. But I'm not Katie, really I'm not. I'm her mild-mannered older sister.
Stirring things up is good. Gets lots of traffic on the comments side. So really, I am doing this for wesley! Aren't I so unselfish, trying to get more traffic for my brother? I am so NICE....
Post a Comment
<< Home