Operators Say the Darndest Things

You've heard of the saying "kids say the darndest things"... well, let me tell you, it applies to operators who work at the plant. Good LAWD, it is RIDICULOUS. As some of you can attest, they're quite hilarious... let me just list them.

"Hey, do you work out?"
1. WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME THIS?
2. That is a very silly question to ask, especially since I can't hear ANYTHING anyway, so he had to ask me 4 times before I heard him. I stop after the 2nd time now, I just can't take it.
3. He was saying that I had tone arms, 


"How much do you think it would cost to send my daughter to AUM?"
1. Sir, I am an engineer, not a financial planner, not an academic adviser... I cannot tell you, you should have thought of this when she said "hey dad, I'm going to college."
2. If you're sending your daughter to school in August, AKA one month.... It's a little too late.
I answered him, in state tuition is about $5,000 at Auburn a semester. He freaked out, saying he doesn't have that. Sir, you should have thought about that before now. Children are expensive!! Especially those who want to go to college. If you want better for yourself & your children, you need to try and save money...


"You won't find any of the brothers there down at the beach, I'm a brother, I know."
This was told to me by approximately a 40 year old man wearing a back brace... He's talking about people going to the beach...


"You ain't got no kin down here?"
Asked to me by an older man, who was very concerned that I was living in Alabama and my closest family was 6-7 hours away.

This one guy was showing me his new tattoo... It was a Wednesday, he got it on Monday. It is of a green koi fish.

There is a yellow koi, orange, and white. and blue. I see no dark/lime green colored fish. I really wanted to tell him that was a stupid color to choose for a koi tattoo. But it's permanent. So, I will not.
But I said it in my head.

I believe I am going to hell....