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Posted: 8/13/2007 6:21:02 PM EDT
..and he said something that cracked me up.
He's new to this company and industry; he's the field tech supervisor, and I'm a senior field tech. We supply large industrial equipment to various industries/municipalities, so we spend a lot of time on construction sites. This past week was his first visit to a construction site, so he needed to get a hardhat. He stopped at Grainger on the way home the day before, and picked up a nice, shiny white hardhat. He didn't want to walk on the site in office clothes and a shiny new hardhat, out of some fear of being thought an office dweeb/engineer. So what does he do? Wait for it... ... ... He threw his hardhat down the driveway, to give it that "used" look.  I wish I was making this up. |
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Posted: 8/13/2007 6:23:47 PM EDT
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I did something like that once, ripped a brand new shirt, my mom whipped my ass, I never did it again...
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Posted: 8/13/2007 6:29:55 PM EDT
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I guess noone remembers the similar thread where the guy throws his AR down the driveway for that "used in combat" look?
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Posted: 8/13/2007 6:33:39 PM EDT
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I used to oil up my band new shinny baseball glove and then proceed to run it over and over with my dads pickup truck to break it in.
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Posted: 8/13/2007 6:34:58 PM EDT
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It was an AK. |
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Posted: 8/13/2007 6:35:08 PM EDT
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That's different though. You don't break a glove in to give it that 'used look.' You break it in so it actually works.. |
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Posted: 8/13/2007 6:36:20 PM EDT
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I stand corrected 
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Posted: 8/13/2007 6:36:21 PM EDT
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We have noobs do this sort of shit at the shipyard. Only problem is that there is a real difference between a real "used" hardhat, and a new one that someone scuffed up. It just makes them look like bigger noobs then before. |
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Posted: 8/13/2007 6:39:12 PM EDT
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that's pretty good.
Tell him if he takes it out and uses it underwater it'll have that authentic aquabumped look to it and nobody will be able to tell he's an office engineering dweeb or tell him to give it to you and you'll blast it with birdshot to give it that authentic used look. |
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Posted: 8/13/2007 8:42:24 PM EDT
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Yes, it was. 
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Posted: 8/13/2007 8:59:38 PM EDT
[#10]
 
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Posted: 8/13/2007 9:02:29 PM EDT
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When I got a new hat here at NNSY(east coast Gov. Shipyard) I tried to keep it clean. Most people knew that it was the hat that was new and not me!
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Posted: 8/13/2007 9:05:06 PM EDT
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i remember seeing pics from the thread, wasnt it NT that did it ? |
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Posted: 8/13/2007 9:20:09 PM EDT
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Wow awesome thread man.
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Posted: 8/13/2007 9:41:53 PM EDT
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Yes |
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Posted: 8/13/2007 10:32:12 PM EDT
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No, actually, you don't. It WAS an AR and it was our resident military "officer" Napolean_Tanerite.  Kicked his AR around the parking lot to give it that "been there, done that" look all the cool kids in Iraq and A-stan are sporting.Again... This bears repeating.
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Posted: 8/13/2007 10:35:53 PM EDT
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I used to work at Grainger.
What ever happened to Napoleon_Tanerite anyways? |
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Posted: 8/13/2007 10:38:44 PM EDT
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The thing that sticks out most in my mind was that the guy had just completed his training and was going off to fly F-18s for the Navy. No offense to infantry, but why would a fighter pilot want to beat up a perfectly good rifle? Isn't being a fighter pilot impressive enough? And who would have ever believed that he had actually put all that wear on his gun?
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Posted: 8/13/2007 10:58:09 PM EDT
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He was going to be a Air Farce pilot, you know, give them a 5 minute break and you have to retrain them. 
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