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July 16, 2002
instead he sent three angels to move the river
"One of the lights on the perimeter fence went out," the company chief mentioned.
"Really?" I barely glanced up from the MRE package I was reading. I was trying to eat vegetarian, but options were limited, and it was difficult to tell if items allegedly containing meat had not, in fact, merely been prepared in a vat with a picture of a chicken in the same room.
"Yeah," he went on. "You can't really reach the things from the inside, so somebody's gonna have to go outside with a ladder to replace it."
"Damn," I said, shaking my head. "I feel sorry for that sorry son of a bitch."
He looked at me intently.
Realization was a long time coming. Like most things, it was getting to Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia by way of Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.
"Oh hell no."
"Here's a couple replacement bulbs," he handed me the boxes. "They should work, but, y'know, they been in storage the last twenty years or so."
"And we don't have any way to test them?"
"You wacky kids and your crazy talk. Take this ladder, the light's on top of the fence."
It was your normal, aluminium ladder. It glinted brightly in the midday sunlight.
"Wouldn't it be easier to just shoot me, chief?"
"Too much paperwork. Don't forget your rifle."
Posted by Aaron at July 16, 2002 03:29 PM
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