It is near the Christmas break of the school year.  The students have turned in all their work and there is really nothing more to do. 

All the children are restless and the teacher decides to have an early dismissal.

Teacher: "Whoever answers the questions I ask, first and correctly, can leave early today."

Little Johnny says to himself  "Good, I want to get outta here.  I'm smart and will answer the question."

Teacher: "Who said 'Four Score and Seven Years Ago'?"

Before Johnny can open his mouth, Susie says, "Abraham Lincoln."

Teacher: "That's right Susie, you can go home."  Johnny is mad that Susie answered the question first.

Teacher: "Who said 'I Have a Dream'?"

Before Johnny can open his mouth, Mary says, "Martin Luther King."

Teacher: "That's right Mary, you can go."  Johnny is even madder than before.

Teacher: "Who said 'Ask not what your country can do for you'?"

Before Johnny can open his mouth, Nancy says, "John F. Kennedy."

Teacher: "That's right Nancy, you may also leave."

Johnny is boiling mad that he has not been able to answer to any of the questions.

When the teacher turns her back Johnny says, "I wish these bitches would keep their mouths shut!"

The teacher turns around: "NOW WHO SAID THAT?"

Johnny: "TIGER WOODS.  CAN I GO NOW?

A few people have asked me recently what I do for a living, so thought I'd repost this from last year. Nothing's changed all that much!

Most days,Mon.,Weds.,Thurs.,& Fri. start around 4am with 1 or 2 refined naphthalene trailers that need to be heated til the product reaches an internal temperature of around 220F degrees before they can be unloaded.

These trailers are loaded in Napierville,Canada at around 240F degrees but, even tho the trailers are insulated, after the 26 hour trip to Ky. they have cooled off to about 180F.

Since naphthalene becomes a solid white crystalline substance at 175, applying steam to the heat pads on the underbelly of the trailer has to start now.

The temp usually rises 8-10 degrees an hour, so at 8am they are ready to head to Kenova,WV to deliver at Willert's Home Products, where the naphthalene will be used to make mothballs and urinal cakes, believe it or not!

At 8, we open for tank cleaning, and the first one, a Calgon Carbon, rolls thru the door.

And, of course, there's always the paperwork!

After each trailer is cleaned and dried, got to have two copies of the work report.

Fax a copy to the dispatcher, so they'll know it's ready.

At 9:15 it's no. 2, another Calgon Carbon trailer.

By 9:20 we're starting to roll, and bring no. 3, a QC ethanol unit, into the 2nd bay.

The one major change around here is the idiot fellow pictured above has been replaced by this guy.

It was a good trade!

No. 4, at 10am,  is another ethanol, we do a lot of those lately, Gasohol, ya know.

No. 5,at 10:30, and we're back to bay 1 and another Calgon.

11am and the naphthalene is back from Kenova and ready to be cleaned.That's no. 6 and it's not even lunch time yet.

7 is another Calgon at 11:30!

BREAK!

12:15 til 1:00 we do lunch.

Lunch is a quick run to Go Mart for some of that bargain $4.09 a gallon gasohol,

a pack of Camels, see my favorite Go Mart girl, Hazlea,

who was also my first Xanga friend, by the way, thru the McDonald's drive-thru for a burger and a Coke, and right on back to the grind.

At 1, it's no. 8, a Marathon Petroleum coal tar light oil trailer.

At 1:15, a Lyco gasoline unit makes it 9 so far.

Steam cleaning and degassing so unit can be welded on at Kat Tank to stop a major leak.

Blowing steam out to dry it, so it can be reloaded after repairs are made.

At 2pm, no. 10 is brought into bay 1.

2:15, and 11 is another QC ethanol. Rear unloader tho, little different setup.

3pm and the last one for the day, I hope!

No. 12, another Calgon.

4 o'clock, and we're done!!

My dogs are barkin'. Time to head for home!

It's gotta be beer thirty by the time I get there.

Kind of a slow day, really.

Mondays are usually 15 or 16 trailer days.