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Here's an older one SilverWarder Send a noteboard - 20/10/2009 06:43:19 PM
Me (to Sergeant Gosselin): "Heya Sarge, it looks like we're running low on regular copy paper. Could you put it on the order list?"

Sergeant Gosselin: "I could, but I'm super busy right now. Would you mind terribly doing the req for me? Here's the order form."

Me: "Sure Sarge, no problem."

(I then fill out the requisition form and drop it into his outbox)

A couple weeks later:

Logistics guy at the vault door: "Are you Airman Major? I've got your order for you."

Me: "Oh great, thanks. I'll be right out."

I go out, expecting to see a wheeler with a couple of boxes of office paper. No wheeler, no paper. Just the loggy guy with a clipboard.

Me: "Where's my order?"

Loggy guy: "Oh, upstairs. Where's your freight elevator?"

Me: "My what? Dude this is Intel and the Command Post. What the heck would we need a freight elevator for? We don't even have an ordinary elevator. You can't just wheel it down the stairs? That's what they usually do."

Loggy guy: "Umm, you better see this."

We go upstairs and there's my 'order'. It's this gi-normous wooden crate, taller than I am. Got my name on it shipping and order number and everything.

Stenciled on the side of the crate are the words: "Wheel, Bomber, B-1B"

Me: "You brought me a BOMBER WHEEL???!!!!"

Loggy guy: "Well this is the 319th Bomb Wing Headquarters, right?"

Me: "Yeah, sure is but notice the decided lack of airplanes - they're all, you know, much closer to the runway in hangars on the other side of that big fence over there." I hand him my order sheet, "Besides, I ordered OFFICE PAPER, not a wheel for one of our aircraft!"

He checks everything.

Loggy guy: "Oh. Looks like the order number is off by one. You ordered the right thing but they didn't fill it properly. I'll have to re-fill it. I do think we have some office paper I can bring over though.

"Ummm - what do you want me to do with the wheel?"

May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk.

Old Egyptian Blessing
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