When someone walks up to you at the C store to tell you why they need $5.37 so he can make it home to be with his hospitalized wife....
When some butterball of a guy with zero callous on his hands starts telling stories of espionage....
When the yardboy at the shipper has a chip on his shoulder...
You know you're in trouble when...
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When you pull up to the pickup and it's a veritable thoroughfare for multiple companies sharing warehouse space and 50+ trucks coming in and out of the gate and in and out of docks. But you notice signage all over the streets within 1 mile of the gate saying: "No Parking. Tow Away Zone".
You're "on time" and try to check in with the "security" and they take your info and then say: "There's no parking inside the yard. You have to park on the street."
When you ask about a time frame for getting a door, they then say: "We will call you."
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When you have to run through Atlanta and your clock says its 3pm.......
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I talked with the cop for ten minutes or so and he went on to tell me the residents there stand on their lawns along with their children and give them the middle finger and then spit on them as they pass by.
Then he said that’s how they treat us and they they call us for this ########!!
He also said he wondered if they even really believed there was someone stealing a car but rather trying to screw with the police to waste their time or to force a negative encounter with an innocent person and make them look bad?
I said to the cop “you know if you believed that I had actually stolen a car and rolled up yelling for me to get on the ground I would have dropped my winch bar and got on the ground.”
“ I WOULD NOT have started grasping my winch bar in a threatening manner, give him a bunch of lip and then refuse to comply with his directions.”
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Unless you are sure they are former military. In that case your stories of your time as a special operator are invaluable.
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Thanks for the advice.
I’ll have to remember those phrases.
I don’t think I’ll need them though where I’m delivering in Miami.
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