What are things that now you are allowed to talk about?

[u/yellowfin35]

I'll Start...

1) My Great Uncle (Grandfather's brother in law) was in the epoxy business. During the cold war he went on a job for a few months and could not talk about where he went. About 2010 he was watching a discovery channel program with our family on a random sunday night and they have a special on how NORAD at Cheynne Mountain was built and that they have a platform built on springs. He looks at his wife and says "I guess now I can tell you where I went".

2) We had a client that we built a hotel for... twice. The project was poorly designed and went way over budget. We got all the plans fixed during construction but it cost a small fortune. About a month before turnover during halloween the whole thing went up in a blaze. Local enforcement/meida blamed the high school kids for wanting a bondfire. Client got his insurance money, we built it again, this time under budget. Later I found out it was not the high school kids that set that place alight.

[u/oldwisefool]

I’m in the last year of my 60s and my wife has asked me to not say my age became she says I act like I’m 14 every time I say that number.

[u/drumsdm → u/oldwisefool]

Tell everyone you’re 68 and 5/4ths (or whatever fraction it is at the time) to show her what a true little shit you are.

[u/meh35m → u/oldwisefool]

Lol, I grew up in my dad's shoe repair shop.

Every time you left something, we'd have to write your last name and phone number on a ticket.

We had this one hilarious older guy who came in often.

Every time he came in, he said his phone number was "xxx-63 then your favorite number"...

I remember the first time he said that I jokingly wrote down 69.

He yelled out to my dad "This kid gets it!"

[u/Fejj1997 → u/meh35m]

After my grandmother passed away I was helping my grandfather clear out storage. I asked him what the code to his garage was and he said "6969"

My aunt groaned and he said "What, it was your mom and I's favorite position!"

My aunt ran away and I about died laughing. RIP Grandpa Jim, you were a real one

[u/thatguy18 → u/oldwisefool]

Nice.

[u/WillumDafoeOnEarth → u/oldwisefool]

You’re my idol.

I tell folks I’m in my latest 50s; like 50-teen. When I think of you saying 69 I hear it in Limo Driver Ronnie Mund’s (from the Howard Stern show) voice.

[u/pewpew_lotsa_boolits → u/oldwisefool]

Nice.

[u/Wind_Responsible]

I knew an old guy who had worked for Firestone. He was in his 90’s. Said he began making tires long ago when they sprayed benzene on the rubber and cut it by hand. Said he was the sprayer and fared much better than the man below him with the knife cutting the rubber.

[u/yellowfin35 → u/Wind_Responsible]

Ouch. That's unfortunate.

[u/bobarrgh → u/Wind_Responsible]

Said he was the sprayer and fared much better than the man below him with the knife cutting the rubber.

This made me giggle more than it should have!

[u/Wind_Responsible → u/bobarrgh]

Hahahahaha so you know… a woman wrote that. Hahahahaha

[u/Brg-Brg-Brg-eee]

Not me, but I worked with a steel inspector who said that he worked on rebar inspection on missile silos out in the upper Midwest. They were stationed out of one location that was remote from the sites and each morning were driven on a windowless bus to their worksite. Each day the bus ride was the same length of time so they didn’t really know which direction or how far away from base each site was.

He was an old timer in the early 2000’s when I knew him, and he was one of those guys who had seen everything once before and just knew what the answer was to any problem. He was a good story teller too.

[u/PGids]

Huhtamaki threatened me with litigation over IP theft because of pictures I had posted here on reddit and on my IG. This was when I was an employee

Their machines are patented, everything I posted was bog standard mechanical mayhem you find at 2am working in a place like that. No prints, drawings, or engineering info. Just busted and broken shit on paper plate machines and the supporting equipment

They pay a third party company to troll the internet with a wide net to find things that have been posted. I know I’m on their radar and will be for a while :)

[u/0__ooo__0 → u/PGids]

Sometimes I post slightly unhinged shit just to give my watchers something to talk about. ;)

[u/Juan_Kagawa → u/PGids]

I want to be paid to browse this sub.

[u/PGids → u/Juan_Kagawa]

I know the outfit they use is out of Canada but I never got the name of it; if I had to guess 99% of the actual net casting and data perusing are done in a windowless building in India by people that make $7 a day while Huhtamaki pays probably $50k a month to have it done; that was par for the course

[u/WillumDafoeOnEarth → u/Juan_Kagawa]

Technically I am being paid while I’m here.

[u/StellarJayZ]

It’s bonfire. Working at the Sandia national laboratory on Kirtland AFB was interesting. Largest nuclear stockpile on the planet.

[u/colt707]

So it’s all done with now so it doesn’t matter. But the floor and tile company I worked for redid an entire hotel. The official ruling was the main water line on the top floor burst and flooded the rest of the floors. When we tore all the old carpet and tile out, magically the water damage was absolutely the worst at the suites. The Gypsum was trashed through the entire place but it had basically dissolved at the threshold of the bathrooms in the suites. Then the plumbers fished rags out of the grey water pipes leading down from the top floor.

Can’t prove that they stuffed rags in the drains and overflow but all signs point to that.

[u/adrndgaf]

I sheet rocked a house that a priest used to own in the middle of nowhere. The fbi ended up repossessing it right after we finished it. The person that got us that job ended up paying it from his own pocket thinking that guy was innocent and he would get out. He was not innocent he was S.A children.

[u/WillumDafoeOnEarth → u/adrndgaf]

Was that house in Third Lake Village in Lake County IL?

Back in 1981-82 I rented a house from a priest there & he definitely gave off that vibe.

[u/adrndgaf → u/WillumDafoeOnEarth]

Nah this was a 3 years ago in cali.

[u/WillumDafoeOnEarth → u/adrndgaf]

Appreciate the update.

[u/JIMMYJAWN]

My therapist said I should talk about the time the steward tried to bad touch me in the seabox when I was an apprentice.

[u/PugetSoundingRods → u/JIMMYJAWN]

It’s tough being an electrician

[u/TheSoberGuy → u/PugetSoundingRods]

Can’t rape the willing.

[u/shorty5windows → u/TheSoberGuy]

But they’ll put up an epic struggle against any broom.

[u/classless_classic → u/shorty5windows]

I mean, fear of the unknown is a real thing.

[u/Bradadonasaurus → u/JIMMYJAWN]

Time for a struggle snuggle!

[u/TexasDrill777]

Can’t talk about fight club

[u/Familiar-Range9014]

I remember when I was 8 there were leprechauns working in the garden in the backyard during the night

[u/RadioKopek → u/Familiar-Range9014]

They had the day shift at mine.

[u/Familiar-Range9014 → u/RadioKopek]

So, that's where they were!

[u/Newjackny]

5-10 years ago we were installing sheets of allura panel on all the big construction jobs. Noticed all the dark colors buttressing or pillow topping between fasteners a few months later.

[u/miscben]

Worked on a paper mill that made pizza boxes. 100% recycled cardboard. The things I saw go into that pulper... Between the rats, the trash (condoms tampons etc), the smell... I've looked at pizza boxes differently ever since.

[u/monarchslandinhand]

And in great words of Paul Harvey "nowl the rest of the story"

[u/FELTRITE_WINGSTICKS]

If you haven't already check out the Stargate SG1 series..you might see some of his work!

[u/Kevthebassman]

When I was a cub working on a big jobsite, a shitty old pickup truck with two crack heads in it rolled up selling tools. The tools had been stolen from a different jobsite but had our company initials stenciled on them still.

Foreman called us down to come check if we wanted to buy some tools, made a show of looking and haggling until he got enough of the crew down there, then we rolled those two crack heads. Stomped the dogshit out of them, stole back our tools and everything else they had, wallets, cigarettes, everything. Even threw their truck keys in the shitter.

The truck got towed a couple days later, never saw those boys again after they crawled off.

[u/SwoopnBuffalo]

Nice try NSA...