And this all happened in one night.

[HappyFun Ball]

Whoa, last night was a doozy! I don't normally drive Thursday nights but I had another driver ask me if I could cover his shift, so I did.

Last night I took:

1- Sextuple

2- Quintuple

4- Quadruples

6- Triples

2- Doubles

and no singles
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I saw 2 wrecks and was almost involved in another. The one I was almost involved in was my fault, I was in a hurry and a Coke I had in my seat had turned over, I over shot the stop sign and my front end was about a foot out in the street, this car comes flying up and instead of swerving around (It's not like I was half-way in the street) she slammed on her brakes and laid on the horn.. Ok, me being a bit in the street was my fault, but really? Laying on the horn like that? The white trash/ghetto dude in the car flipped me off after they figured out they could go around me, I flipped him off right back.

The 2nd wreck was just someone who must've thought the yellow light was going to still be yellow while they were 5 blocks away from the intersection ( I didn't stop, it happened behind me as I had turned on the road back to Johnny Jim's)

The 3rd wreck I did stop for, I was turning onto the street that Johhny Jims was on, which is a very, very busy street with college kids jay walking everywhere and you just have to plain pay real good attention when you are on that street. Anyways, this little BMW behind me decided to not take human life into effect and sped around me, using the turn lane, he also sped around a truck that was in front of me, using those real hard jerking movements.. Mr. I'm In A Hurry BMW collided head first with another car. Truck Driver in front of me and him went to help, we had a brief discussion on if we should help Mr. asshole BMW driver as it was his recklessness that caused the wreck. He called 911, while I went and cut the engines off in both cars involved in the wreck, I don't have any EMT training, but I do know that you should never move someone like that unless they are in greater danger from like the vehicle being on fire, I told both parties involved in the wreck that help was coming and to please not move (I don't think BMW guy was drunk, just an impatient ass hole). I gave my statement to the cops, Truck Driver did also.
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I had a quadruple to a college apartment complex that has, get this a gate to get into the complex and a gate to get into the building. I had to keep calling one guy to ask him to let me into the complex and to come to the building gate to get his food (There is no way to get out without the little remote they give residents once you get inside the gat.. I think the fire marshall will be very interested to hear this).. The guy kept giving me the gate code and I kept telling him that once I get in, I can't get out unless he is there anyways. I stood there waiting and he kept calling, I kept explaining to him the problem, he then wanted me to walk around to the side of the building, where his porch/patio is and give him his food, problem with that is the building is surrounded by a fence, I tell him this and he wants me to squeeze my fat ass through the 9 inch gaps in the bars in the fence.. Ok, I had e-Goddamned- nuff.. I told him, and I quote "Can you get off your lazy ass and come get your fucking food already?", I think I scared him, he quickly gave me the money and very quickly took off after getting his food, he didn't even ask for his change.

I have a feeling I had not heard the last of this, I hope he was drunk enough to forget what I told him.. I guess we'll see.

In the elevator in another building, same complex, I found a credit card, I called the company to tell them that I had found it and if they could inform the card holder of this, I'd appreiciate it. Left my contact info with them, I don't know what they can or will do about it.


Bonus: Last night I took orders #420, #666 and #911.


I took a delivery to a dorm and th guy came out, was filling out the credit card slip and asked how much tip I wanted, I said "I need about Tree Fiddy (3.50)" he laughed and said "Dammit, Monster, you get your own Tree Fiddy!".. he wrote me a 10$ tip.

[Slayer]

Bleah, we have a lot of 3rd wreck guys around here. I never understand why they have to be in a hurry so freaking much.

Swerving out behind me to the right, which is a merge lane that's almost merged, and having to slam on the brakes because you realized you ran out of road? When I'm doing 70 in a 70 because I know there's a police station /2/ minutes away? Yeah, that makes you cool.


Sorry about scs that think door delivery equals some elaborate spy mission where no limits exist and you can magically get their food to them by walking through obstacles.

[Food Lady]

Man, I hope no one was seriously injured. Hopefully that guy will never do that again. He could've killed somebody. That's not worth the time saved.

[Lyse]

But that's just it - there was no time saved at all. Once you factor in the EMT and police arriving, reports, any medical treatment/hospital stay it would be safe to say that he lost time by a significant factor. And that's not even considering the fact that his car needs to be repaired or replaced now.

Between the lost time and the lost money, I think that I would rather risk being five minutes late to wherever I am going.

[dragon_wings]

Unless he wanted a good solid excuse to be outta something.

[Seshat]

Surely a single vehicle accident would suit for that?

[dragon_wings]

Of course not! It has to be *huge*! /end sarcasm

[Teskeria]

For the credit card, I know the one I work for we invalidate it right away. But please do keep calling them in if you find them. When an honest person finds it and calls, it can be cut off before a thief manages to run up a large bill in it. There is a frightening large number of people who don't bother to read their statements, just pay them, and therefore lose the right to dispute charges because they don't notice wrong charges until they are doing taxes. (Most charges can only be disputed within 60 days of the statement closing date for the billing cycle the charge posted in)

[thatcrazyredhead]

I took a delivery to a dorm and th guy came out, was filling out the credit card slip and asked how much tip I wanted, I said "I need about Tree Fiddy (3.50)" he laughed and said "Dammit, Monster, you get your own Tree Fiddy!".. he wrote me a 10$ tip.

That is awesome! Hooray for generous customers with a sense of humor!

[Kogarashi]

Surely a single vehicle accident would suit for that?

Of course not! It has to be *huge*! /end sarcasm

How else is he going to scam someone else's insurance into footing the repair bill?

[EricKei]

The CC thing reminded me of what happened about 12 years ago -- Someone stole Dad's briefcase (by his own admission he had been careless: left it on the trunk only long enough to open the front door to the house, drop off his jacket, and come back out) -- it turns out that the neighborhood had been victimized by some guys who were casing houses in a fake electrician's truck.

Anyhoo, we contacted our bank, got the card and checks/accounts in the case closed, all *literally* 100% shut down in less than 60 minutes from the time the case was stolen.

Well, it looks like these crooks got around. Within 3 days, we got a call from our Manager/agent dude at the bank saying that someone had tried and failed to use our debit card in *Wisconson*...and I live around New Orleans...The best part is, they *successfully* used at least one of Dad's checks at a grocery several days later, as said store called us up inquiring about it. Apparently either they don't run checks through Telecheck, or their service fooked up, as all we could do is tell them that the account had been closed for *two weeks* at that point. We gave them our bank Agent's number to see what could be done, but that's the last we heard of it. iirc, At least one credit bureau once asked me if I had ever lived in WI when I was getting my annual report, even tho my address history in the reports themselves is accurate (I've never lived, and very seldom even GONE, north of the Mason-Dixon Line)...

[depechemodefan]

"Dammit, Monster, you get your own Tree Fiddy!".. he wrote me a 10$ tip.

Hee!

One time I found a cc in a parking lot. Had a 1/2 second of thinking, "oooh, I can use this to buy the Buffy Chosen collection," but I turned it in to a security guard. another time I found one in a parking lot, I went into the store and as I walked around I started to bend it until it broke in half, and threw it away in 2 garbages cans.

someone had tried and failed to use our debit card in *Wisconson*...

I hear that thieves can sell cc info. to other theives/rings that are in other countries, so they might not have gone too far.

[EricKei]

I hear that thieves can sell cc info. to other theives/rings that are in other countries, so they might not have gone too far.

True, true, but this was circa 2000, when such things happened, but were not as well-proliferated, and they used a PAPER check from his checkbook in the area successfully. That's why I suspected that they really had gone up there after what was likely a series of successful thefts.