A lot of mayhem occurred at my job with a plumbing and heating wholesaler for eighteen years. The following happened my first week of employment. I was working on the sales counter when this old man who seemed as if he could hardly walk came up to me. He had just parked one of those old station wagons with the fake wooden sides, The headliner was also falling down. He told me that he wanted to buy as many 100 foot rolls of 80 psi water pipe as I could load in my car. This presented a real challenge to me.
I instructed him to pull his car to the pipe section of the sales yard so I could load it. I began by loading the back hatch then filled the entire back seat. Then I filled the front passenger seat. I was so proud of how many rolls of pipe I had stuffed into that old clunker, I really had it bulging. Then I told him to come back to the counter and I would figure out his bill. As I walked back to the counter he raced back to his car and spun tires fleeing our lot. It was as if he had swallowed a bottle of geritol. I was dropped off everyday at work as we only had one car. I had no way of chasing him and it happened to fast to get his license plate number. That is one time I wish I had not done such a good job.
