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<blockquote data-quote="Shiftless" data-source="post: 3370186" data-attributes="member: 47472"><p>Are you guys holding your stories in because they bring out to much emotion about the incident? Or are to embarrassed to tell?</p><p></p><p>Well here is one of my embarrassing stories.</p><p></p><p>Pkg driver 1976. On an unknown route, in an area I have never delivered. Major street, Pkg car parked right in front of this 4 or 6 story building? I go up the elevator, make a delivery or two. I come down make a turn and WTF? I am in a stock brokers office? Only way I see out is an open sliding door on to a porch that I can see my package car awaiting me across the office front glass, but I don't want to cut thru the maze of low level cubicles to go to that side . So I say go for it on this side as this is the closest way OUT!.</p><p></p><p>So I size up that I am to embarrassed to go back in after reaching the porch and it does look a little intimidaing and the entry way now blocks the view of the pkg car and what the heck I'm young, besides coming in the drop to the grass is only about 3 feet and the steel railing aint that high. Well it is when one hand holds the rail, one hand holds the clipboard and you hop and throw your legs over only to catch the knee of the last knee going over!</p><p></p><p>Time moves ahead a minute or so and I have this guy shaking me saying "Hey UPS, you OK?" HUH? What?</p><p>He describes to me that I clipped the railing and I spun, landing not on my feet, but my back knocking the air out of me and it put me out for a bit? He then says"Dude that's 5 ft just from floor level" So I get up! Thanking him for what? I don't know? I guess if it was worse he would have called 911.</p><p></p><p>So now what I you do? I get my composure in the car and decide OK, Just slow down. It slowed me down real good. I made three more stops in a 1/2 hour. Called my sup and told him I was blowing out both ends I'm coming in. He was a cool dude and actually asked me if I could stay where I was at for 5 minutes as he was on the phone with the driver a block away and if I could give my stuff to the other driver, as I had maybe 20 stops left.</p><p></p><p>Came back the next day and on the same route as a utility driver (still sore as heck)as I approach this building I say " No Wonder" Yup the building does have two long porches along the front on each side of the huge entry way. Problem was, the side I chose to exit was on the down hill side. YUP! Building was a hill. So as the guy shaking me explained to me, that's a "five foot" drop with now estimated 36 to 40 inch railing. HE was right. I had parked the day before on the other side where if it was 3 feet would be exaggerating closer to 2 ft.</p><p></p><p>Different times! This supervisor was the coolest dude ever! He was a real people's guy! That's why he didn't last. I did not tell him what really happened at the time, I just went home sick. I did throw up on route walking in from the back of a liquor store parking lot in their trash can once, thinking some juice would help all the light headed feelings and was pale as hell, looked bad when I got back to the center, felt worse as I was also sore as heck. I actually told him month's later when he told me in the morning it was his last day and knew once he told his manager he was quitting he would be walked off the property. He laughed with me when I told him what happened. That was the last time I saw him.</p><p></p><p>This event taught me to SLOW DOWN!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shiftless, post: 3370186, member: 47472"] Are you guys holding your stories in because they bring out to much emotion about the incident? Or are to embarrassed to tell? Well here is one of my embarrassing stories. Pkg driver 1976. On an unknown route, in an area I have never delivered. Major street, Pkg car parked right in front of this 4 or 6 story building? I go up the elevator, make a delivery or two. I come down make a turn and WTF? I am in a stock brokers office? Only way I see out is an open sliding door on to a porch that I can see my package car awaiting me across the office front glass, but I don't want to cut thru the maze of low level cubicles to go to that side . So I say go for it on this side as this is the closest way OUT!. So I size up that I am to embarrassed to go back in after reaching the porch and it does look a little intimidaing and the entry way now blocks the view of the pkg car and what the heck I'm young, besides coming in the drop to the grass is only about 3 feet and the steel railing aint that high. Well it is when one hand holds the rail, one hand holds the clipboard and you hop and throw your legs over only to catch the knee of the last knee going over! Time moves ahead a minute or so and I have this guy shaking me saying "Hey UPS, you OK?" HUH? What? He describes to me that I clipped the railing and I spun, landing not on my feet, but my back knocking the air out of me and it put me out for a bit? He then says"Dude that's 5 ft just from floor level" So I get up! Thanking him for what? I don't know? I guess if it was worse he would have called 911. So now what I you do? I get my composure in the car and decide OK, Just slow down. It slowed me down real good. I made three more stops in a 1/2 hour. Called my sup and told him I was blowing out both ends I'm coming in. He was a cool dude and actually asked me if I could stay where I was at for 5 minutes as he was on the phone with the driver a block away and if I could give my stuff to the other driver, as I had maybe 20 stops left. Came back the next day and on the same route as a utility driver (still sore as heck)as I approach this building I say " No Wonder" Yup the building does have two long porches along the front on each side of the huge entry way. Problem was, the side I chose to exit was on the down hill side. YUP! Building was a hill. So as the guy shaking me explained to me, that's a "five foot" drop with now estimated 36 to 40 inch railing. HE was right. I had parked the day before on the other side where if it was 3 feet would be exaggerating closer to 2 ft. Different times! This supervisor was the coolest dude ever! He was a real people's guy! That's why he didn't last. I did not tell him what really happened at the time, I just went home sick. I did throw up on route walking in from the back of a liquor store parking lot in their trash can once, thinking some juice would help all the light headed feelings and was pale as hell, looked bad when I got back to the center, felt worse as I was also sore as heck. I actually told him month's later when he told me in the morning it was his last day and knew once he told his manager he was quitting he would be walked off the property. He laughed with me when I told him what happened. That was the last time I saw him. This event taught me to SLOW DOWN! [/QUOTE]
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