Honk! Honk!
Back in the day when I first started my old job at Corporate Images (actually it was only called Images at the time, oh yeah baby, I'm old school) we had a good group of guys that worked hard and was able to still have fun while getting the job done. Almost daily there would be some kind of practical joke going on over the next little while I think I'll share some of those moments.
My first story involves a guy named Tony who at the time was just a shmuck working on the floor like the rest of us (he now is the plant manager). Tony and I started at Images on the exact same day back in 1996, although I arrived first so I had 5 minutes seniority over him which he never could accept. ;)
Well one summer day I went out to the parking lot and taped a big cardboard sign to the back of his beat up old Honda. On the sign I wrote in block letters with a big black marker "HONK IF YOU'RE GAY". Now this sign covered his entire rear of the car but since he backed into his parking space he never had a chance to see it before leaving at the end of his shift. I watched him pull away and just started to laugh my ass off. The rest of the story I got in bits and pieces from Tony and some of our co-workers.
Here's Tony cruising in the slow lane down Highway #1 heading for Surrey. This is a major highway and has a TON of traffic at this time in the afternoon so plenty of people got to see this. About 4 or 5 of our fellow dayshift workers passed Tony on the highway and honk there horns and waved while pointing fingers and laughing. Tony during this whole time was thinking he was pretty popular "with the boys" and was feeling good about himself. The fact that strangers were doing the same thing didn't phase him at all.
So Tony stops into a gas station on the way home and fills up the tank in his car. Just picture him leaning against his car while filling it up as people discover his sign and stare. Oh man, funny shit. So after he fills up he heads into the store to pay for the gas and that's when he notices the sign.
*SNAP*
Apparently Tony rips off the sign and throws it to the ground in disgust and at this time.... I figure he's pretty upset....lol. He rips steaming mad all the way home and sits on his hood and lights up a smoke to try and calm down. There he sits all pissed off when his wife pulls into the driveway and sees him sitting there, still fuming. She knew something was wrong and instantly thought he got fired from work, or got into an accident or something.
"Brian's fucking dead!, I'm going to kill him!"
I'm kind of upset that he assumed it was me right away, actually no, it was one of the funniest moments in my life.
Poor guy.
If any current Images employees read this website, the next time you see Tony please go up to him and say "HONK! HONK!"
My first story involves a guy named Tony who at the time was just a shmuck working on the floor like the rest of us (he now is the plant manager). Tony and I started at Images on the exact same day back in 1996, although I arrived first so I had 5 minutes seniority over him which he never could accept. ;)
Well one summer day I went out to the parking lot and taped a big cardboard sign to the back of his beat up old Honda. On the sign I wrote in block letters with a big black marker "HONK IF YOU'RE GAY". Now this sign covered his entire rear of the car but since he backed into his parking space he never had a chance to see it before leaving at the end of his shift. I watched him pull away and just started to laugh my ass off. The rest of the story I got in bits and pieces from Tony and some of our co-workers.
Here's Tony cruising in the slow lane down Highway #1 heading for Surrey. This is a major highway and has a TON of traffic at this time in the afternoon so plenty of people got to see this. About 4 or 5 of our fellow dayshift workers passed Tony on the highway and honk there horns and waved while pointing fingers and laughing. Tony during this whole time was thinking he was pretty popular "with the boys" and was feeling good about himself. The fact that strangers were doing the same thing didn't phase him at all.
So Tony stops into a gas station on the way home and fills up the tank in his car. Just picture him leaning against his car while filling it up as people discover his sign and stare. Oh man, funny shit. So after he fills up he heads into the store to pay for the gas and that's when he notices the sign.
*SNAP*
Apparently Tony rips off the sign and throws it to the ground in disgust and at this time.... I figure he's pretty upset....lol. He rips steaming mad all the way home and sits on his hood and lights up a smoke to try and calm down. There he sits all pissed off when his wife pulls into the driveway and sees him sitting there, still fuming. She knew something was wrong and instantly thought he got fired from work, or got into an accident or something.
"Brian's fucking dead!, I'm going to kill him!"
I'm kind of upset that he assumed it was me right away, actually no, it was one of the funniest moments in my life.
Poor guy.
If any current Images employees read this website, the next time you see Tony please go up to him and say "HONK! HONK!"
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