[Laneco]

My husband is an electrician and once had a co-worker, let's just call him Mr. Barnoff, who was always playing practical jokes. Barnoff actually shipped all of my husband's tools to CHINA one time. Oh yeah, that was hilarious... Try working on a construction site when your tools have been shipped to China.

So my husband decides to get even. Barnoff had an Olds Alero rental car at the job site. My husband slim-jimmed the door and got into the car. He took the jack out, jacked the car up and put the suspension on blocks. Then he pushed gravel up around the tires so it appeared the car was on the ground, but actually was supported by the blocks. Next he put the jack back away deep inside the trunk. Before closing the trunk, he filled it clear to the top with styrofoam peanuts.

The interior of the car got filled with peanuts and other loose packing material. Then my husband carefully locked all the doors and left the job site about 15 minutes early - all the better to avoid the spicy tempered Mr. Barnoff.

Apparently Barnoff got pretty pissed about the peanuts inside the car. He cleared them out and turned on the a/c. Well, husband had stuffed peanuts inside of the vents too so they blew out. This REALLY bent Mr. Barnoff - he dropped the little Olds into drive and punched it.

Shot gravel across the whole parking lot. Now just furious he bails out of the car and figures out it's on blocks. Needs the jack to correct it. Remember the trunk? When Barnoff opened that trunk he had a full grown man-sized ****tin kitten fit - screamed and stomped around the lot all red faced.

Fortunately by Monday he had cooled off. He and my husband called a truce after that.

angela