Ever have a joke backfire? Years ago, jokes and pranks were a favorite form of entertainment and the folks I ran with would go to great lengths to pull one. Here is an example gone astray...
In the late 80s I was butchering for Brookshire Bros in Crockett. We carried an aquarium full of live catfish fir a while but it was a pain to keep them alive so we abandoned the idea and the tank sat in storage .
There was this fellow that worked for the store named Rodney. He was a great guy but simple. He worked hard though and did all the odds and ends including unloading trucks. Rodney was a large black fellow about 5ft5 and 300ish pounds .
Well one day I was cutting meat and Rodney came in the cutting room which he never did. I knew he wanted something and he eventually got around to asking if we planned to use that big fish tank again. He would like to have it. I quickly told him we were planning to use it again to sell live rattle snakes. He laughed and left the room.
About an hour later Rodney came back. You really gonna sell snakes? One of my meat cutters was cutting fajitas and rolled a full skirt up. He held it up and said yep we already sell dressed snakes. I swear it looked just like a skinned snake. Rodney immediately left. We had a good laugh.
Maybe 30cminutes later Rodney was back. "HOW THOSE SNAKES GONNA COME IN?". It hit me that Rodney unloads the trucks so I said the would be on the same truck as everything else. "WHAT THEY GONNA BE IN?". I tell him just a box. "WHAT IF IT GETS A HOLE IN IT?". Well we will just shut the trailer door till you count the snakes. "Uhuh, yall just messing with me".
Continued....
In the late 80s I was butchering for Brookshire Bros in Crockett. We carried an aquarium full of live catfish fir a while but it was a pain to keep them alive so we abandoned the idea and the tank sat in storage .
There was this fellow that worked for the store named Rodney. He was a great guy but simple. He worked hard though and did all the odds and ends including unloading trucks. Rodney was a large black fellow about 5ft5 and 300ish pounds .
Well one day I was cutting meat and Rodney came in the cutting room which he never did. I knew he wanted something and he eventually got around to asking if we planned to use that big fish tank again. He would like to have it. I quickly told him we were planning to use it again to sell live rattle snakes. He laughed and left the room.
About an hour later Rodney came back. You really gonna sell snakes? One of my meat cutters was cutting fajitas and rolled a full skirt up. He held it up and said yep we already sell dressed snakes. I swear it looked just like a skinned snake. Rodney immediately left. We had a good laugh.
Maybe 30cminutes later Rodney was back. "HOW THOSE SNAKES GONNA COME IN?". It hit me that Rodney unloads the trucks so I said the would be on the same truck as everything else. "WHAT THEY GONNA BE IN?". I tell him just a box. "WHAT IF IT GETS A HOLE IN IT?". Well we will just shut the trailer door till you count the snakes. "Uhuh, yall just messing with me".
Continued....
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