Beep, beep, beep
You know that "Beep, beep, beep" sound that you hear when heavy machinery or 18-wheelers or garbage trucks back up? Well, I'm intimately familiar with it now that I'm so butch and tradesman-like adept at operating a forklift truck.
Yup, I'm learning to drive a forklift as a requirement of my job. Had my lesson last Friday, and I take my exam in a couple of days. I was an obstacle course whiz, and my stacking and unstacking skills were damn good for a total rookie. I was lifting and moving pallets like crazy, including some reallllly big motherfuckers that could have crushed me if I decided to recklessly raise and tilt my load to show off!
In fact, you'd be impressed with my skill -- lining up my target, skillfully and confidently moving forward, lining up with the right hole(s), inserting, raising my load, doing the deed, and unloading. I'm a natural.
Will the acquisition of new skills ever end?!
conceived, scrawled, heavily edited, carefully reconsidered, left for a while to digest, edited once more, and then ultimately posted by: just call me jeff at
4:52 p.m.
1 Comments:
As the best parallel parker that I know I have no doubt that you're now adding to that as the best fork-lift operator that I know.
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