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Pump Truck Gangs
Many moons ago when I was a teenager I used to work in a cash & carry after college. This involved stacking shelves, serving customers etc...

Now the other people who worked there were either in the latter part of their lives or spotty teenagers like myself. And as teenagers get bored very easily we invented many a time wasting game. Football with the plastic wrap was our first foray but would take too many people to play.

Then one day some bright spark took a pump truck (used to lift and wheel heavy pallets of sh!t about) and started riding it like a skateboard, all be it one with a handle for steering.

This cuaght on quite quick with everyone else. soon we were ripping the stickers off the products and sticking them to the sides of our pump trucks. Mine was Special 22. We formed gangs and if you caught someone using your pump truck you went mental. Even the older staff fell in line with our pump truck gang rules.

We had drag races and would battle them. The funny thing was the mangers didn't really seem to mind as long as we got some work done. Even though we scared the poop out of the customers.

It was a bit like Lord of the Flies, but we had fun.
(Tue 13th Jan 2009, 10:24, More)