DrMoab
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- The Utah Backwater
K, I have one for you fellers.
Two weeks ago I was heading up the canyon to get a load of butane. One of our other drivers with a little bigger motor cut me off and pulled into the refinery about a minute before me. We have an unwritten rule...kind of an honor code about this. You just don't do it. It takes us an hour to load, if you pull in front of someone their day is instantly an hour longer.
So anyway today I pull in the refinery right behind another truck who is loading butane as well...no big thing, this happens. Anyway as we are waiting to get our load tickets the dude who cut me off walked in...right behind me AND the other guy. The first words out of his mouth were "let me load in front of you" no please, no asking nicely. Just blunt and to the point. I'm like..."um, no don't think so" and he says "come on, I need to pick my kids up at nine, I'll be late" and still I'm like "uhh uh....nope, not happening, I don't care"
So he freaks out, starts cussing and throwing a tantrum and walks out the office door. I get my ticket, walk out the door and watch him drive out the gate. He gets out the gate, parks and I see him get out of his truck and get on his cell. Five min later my boss calls. The first words out of my mouth was "I'm not letting him load in front of me, Todd!"
Boss said he wasn't calling about "just" that but this other driver did call him to bitch. Then he drove off and went home. Btw...round trip is 300 miles. He just wasted a good $400 in fuel on the companies dime.
So my thing is, what the hell is wrong with people? Where did common courtesy go? If he hadn't cut me off I probably still would have told him to pound sand just by the attitude of the way he asked. Had it been any other driver in need of a favor I would have helped out no questions asked but how this guy thought I owed him any favors is just totally beyond me.
Two weeks ago I was heading up the canyon to get a load of butane. One of our other drivers with a little bigger motor cut me off and pulled into the refinery about a minute before me. We have an unwritten rule...kind of an honor code about this. You just don't do it. It takes us an hour to load, if you pull in front of someone their day is instantly an hour longer.
So anyway today I pull in the refinery right behind another truck who is loading butane as well...no big thing, this happens. Anyway as we are waiting to get our load tickets the dude who cut me off walked in...right behind me AND the other guy. The first words out of his mouth were "let me load in front of you" no please, no asking nicely. Just blunt and to the point. I'm like..."um, no don't think so" and he says "come on, I need to pick my kids up at nine, I'll be late" and still I'm like "uhh uh....nope, not happening, I don't care"
So he freaks out, starts cussing and throwing a tantrum and walks out the office door. I get my ticket, walk out the door and watch him drive out the gate. He gets out the gate, parks and I see him get out of his truck and get on his cell. Five min later my boss calls. The first words out of my mouth was "I'm not letting him load in front of me, Todd!"
Boss said he wasn't calling about "just" that but this other driver did call him to bitch. Then he drove off and went home. Btw...round trip is 300 miles. He just wasted a good $400 in fuel on the companies dime.
So my thing is, what the hell is wrong with people? Where did common courtesy go? If he hadn't cut me off I probably still would have told him to pound sand just by the attitude of the way he asked. Had it been any other driver in need of a favor I would have helped out no questions asked but how this guy thought I owed him any favors is just totally beyond me.
