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Forklift Driver Klaus

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  • Doctor PhibesD Offline
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    Doctor Phibes
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    To my great embarrassment I failed a forklift truck test in thw UK.

    Before we were allowed to drive one, the instructor showed us a photograph of a guy who'd had one fall on him and it blew his brain out of the top of the skull. I found it quite difficult to relax after that.

    Everybody else in the office gave me so much shit you wouldn't believe it.

    I was only joking

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      When I worked in a warehouse (Boston school supplies), we would always tell the new guy to hop on the forklift to go grab something up high.

      Once he got up there we went to lunch.

      It was very funny.

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      • MikM Offline
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        I drove a forklift when I worked in a print shop one summer. It had these beetle-like pincers on the front to lift 6' wide rolls of paper. The first time I did it I didn't get the pincer tight enough. Going down the alley I hit a bump and off the roll went, merrily rolling its way across two streets. It went two blocks before it stopped.

        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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          • MikM Mik

            I drove a forklift when I worked in a print shop one summer. It had these beetle-like pincers on the front to lift 6' wide rolls of paper. The first time I did it I didn't get the pincer tight enough. Going down the alley I hit a bump and off the roll went, merrily rolling its way across two streets. It went two blocks before it stopped.

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            @Mik said in Forklift Driver Klaus:

            It went two blocks before it stopped.

            Fun!

            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

            The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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              Damn never would have guessed that we have so much fork lift history here. Such as it is.

              Only non-witches get due process.

              • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                @Mik said in Forklift Driver Klaus:

                It went two blocks before it stopped.

                Fun!

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                @George-K said in Forklift Driver Klaus:

                Fun!

                Not.

                “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

                  To my great embarrassment I failed a forklift truck test in thw UK.

                  Before we were allowed to drive one, the instructor showed us a photograph of a guy who'd had one fall on him and it blew his brain out of the top of the skull. I found it quite difficult to relax after that.

                  Everybody else in the office gave me so much shit you wouldn't believe it.

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                  Axtremus
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                  @Doctor-Phibes said in Forklift Driver Klaus:

                  Everybody else in the office gave me so much shit you wouldn't believe it.

                  For failing the forklift drive test or just in general?

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                  • AxtremusA Axtremus

                    @Doctor-Phibes said in Forklift Driver Klaus:

                    Everybody else in the office gave me so much shit you wouldn't believe it.

                    For failing the forklift drive test or just in general?

                    Doctor PhibesD Offline
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                    Doctor Phibes
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                    @Axtremus said in Forklift Driver Klaus:

                    @Doctor-Phibes said in Forklift Driver Klaus:

                    Everybody else in the office gave me so much shit you wouldn't believe it.

                    For failing the forklift drive test or just in general?

                    Yes.

                    I was only joking

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                      Did anyone actually watch the video? It's hilarious.

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                      • KlausK Klaus

                        Did anyone actually watch the video? It's hilarious.

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                        @Klaus said in Forklift Driver Klaus:

                        Did anyone actually watch the video? It's hilarious.

                        I watched it. It was quite similar to the training course, but of course with additional and quite wonderful German humour, which isn't something you hear very often, at least from me.

                        I was only joking

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                          jon-nyc
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                          I did. Yes it was funny

                          Only non-witches get due process.

                          • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                          • KlausK Klaus

                            Did anyone actually watch the video? It's hilarious.

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                            @Klaus said in Forklift Driver Klaus:

                            Did anyone actually watch the video? It's hilarious.

                            I watched the entire video and rather appreciated the humor.

                            The "good job" comment was both to the "Klaus" character in the video as well as to you @Klaus for sharing a good video.

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