OT- Think YOU Had a Bad Day? Read THIS! - Page 1

From some friends on another dog message board:


Next time you have a bad day at work think of this guy.

Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana .He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 FM in Ft. Wayne , Indiana , who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won.


Hi Sue,
Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother.

Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all
Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job.

As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wet suit. This time of year the water is quite cool.
So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature.
It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose.

Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints.
What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet suit. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi.

Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. With in a few seconds my butt started to burn.. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened.

The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it.. However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate.

When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my butt.

I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically.

Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression.

When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet. As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber.

The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut.
So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt.

Now repeat to yourself, 'I love my job, I love my job, I love my job.'

Now whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish bad day?

May you NEVER have a jellyfish bad day!!!!!

Yup, beats my bad days.

Thank you! 
I'm sorry for Rob but I give thanks that my bad days have not been as bad as that.
That is funny though...since it didn't happen to me!
And, I bet years from now he'll be laughing about it if he's not already!  LOL

Okay, someone just told me this story is probably NOT true: www.snopes.com:80/humor/letters/diver.asp

Ah, well, it's good for a laugh anyway...

Sorry, should have checked more carefully. The brass helmet bit did sound a bit strange. Those went out of style when Cousteau invented the scuba tank!    Commercial divers do wear very different gear from recreational divers, but I very much doubt they'd wear brass helmets, as brass is quite heavy.

Well, even if it's not true it's good for a laugh lol, ouch!

I got this from a friend a while back and thought it was pretty funny.  I dive and was stuck underwater during a night dive, waiting to surface while blood worms swamped us and a 6' barracuda was lurking nearby.

Wetsuit or warm water diving is much more fun.  You can dive pretty cold water in a drysuit, you just can't pee in it .   And EVERYBODY knows there are two kinds of divers; those who pee in their wetsuit, and those who lie about it  

At least the story you started this thread with  was funny, entertaining and harmless, and it's not like you start 100s of OT threads.  Plus you had the good grace to be the one to post back that the story might not be true.  Since when does something not being true have anything to do with whether or not someone starts a thread about it on this board these days?  Look at all the complete waste of time and utter  nonsense cut and paste threads written by obscure right wing bloggers  started by wing nut Sitasmom!   Even when her face is shoved into the proverbial shit by proving over and over to her the stories are bogus and nothing but irritating  she STILL doesn't get it.  If she were a dog she would be banned from the house at a minimum for an inability to be housebroken.

Look at all the stupid posts that are on here everyday because someone wants FREE medical advice --  "My dog is puking blood"  "My dog can barely walk and he/she is just 8 months old"   "My dog hasn't eaten for a week" and appears to be in pain" --  What Do You All Think ???    DUH !   Go to a VET !


Oh, BTW, the opening story is soooooo old it has grown whiskers !!

Yes maggs we all know you hate the idea of dog related threads clogging up this message board you have worked so hard to ruin.