Stories From the Road: The Rich Guy

[Droopy]

I recently got a new delivery route at work. I go to car dealerships in the wee hours of the morning and deliver car parts. The route is a better deal than the one I had before and I'm thankful to have it. But things still go wrong on delivery routes no matter how good they are and that's what happened to me last night.

I got to one of my stops and it has a key pad that you have to enter a code into in order to open the door to the delivery area. Well, the key pad wasn't working and I couldn't get in to deliver my freight. When something like that happens I have an emergency contact number that I can use to get someone out to the dealership to help me out. It really wasn't that big a deal. It was just going to make my night a little longer.

So I called the emergency contact guy. It was about 5am. That guy tried everything he could to avoid coming out to the dealership. First he wanted me to take the parts back. Then he wanted me to leave them outside the delivery door. I was starting to get pissed at the guy. It's his job to come out to the dealership when things go wrong and he was whining and doing everything he could to avoid coming out. After going around in circles with him for a a couple of minutes I finally got him to haul his ass out of bed. Or so I thought. He said he would be there in a half hour. All he had to do was go into the dealership through the front door, go back to the parts delivery area and open the door from the inside. I would do the rest and he could go back home and snuggle with his teddy bear and security blanket.

Fifteen minutes later a brand new, big-ass, Cadillac Escalade pulled onto the lot. I thought that was quick. My next thought was that either that wasn't the parts guy or it was and the parts guy also owned the joint. The guy didn't even bother to stop and chat with me. He went straight to the front door and went inside. I took some more freight off the truck and met him by the parts door.

He was an older guy and he talked in a much more confident tone than the guy on the phone. He was also very apologetic about the broken key pad and there was 100% less whine in his speech. Nope, that wasn't the same guy. He even helped me unload the truck and then load the dunnage back on to help make up for the lost time. When we were done he flipped me a twenty and said, "For your trouble."

I guess rich people can be cool, too. Now, if we can just get them to drive hybrids.

[kentauros]

1. What about hybrid rigs?

;)
http://www.hybridsemitruck.com/

That was nice of the second guy. I wonder if he had some "words" with the first one... ;)

[sasquatch]

2. Nice ending

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear Droopy!

Wow, now there's an interesting story! It didn't end the way I expected at all...

A rich guy in an Escalade coming to your aid!

Good for him!

Wonder what he had to say to the whiner...;-)

:hi:

[Suich]

4. Nice story, Droopy!

Thanks! :kick:

[LNM]

5. That's real nice, Droopy.

Of course not all rich people are assholes.