From: Bill Grimme

To: larry hackman

Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 4:30 PM

Subject: Re: women’s_toilet

 

These are good. Reminded me of a story from my working days. We were have a mandatory meeting on integrity. The speaker said that if you had a concern, you could make an anonymous call or send an anonymous email to report it. A person asked, “How do you send and anonymous email?”. Good question. The speaker didn’t know, so, I raised my hand and told him, “You wait until lunchtime, find someone who has left their computer active, and send the email from there.” That really pissed the guy off and he said that would be and integrity violation. He didn’t get the fact that it was a joke. The rest of the room cracked up. Sounds kind of like what you did.

Bill

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To: Bill Grimme

Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 2:43 PM

Subject: Re: women’s_toilet

 

Bill

Do you remember this one?

The lady comes out of the restroom at a club.

The male comedian on stage sees her and yells at her, hey lady, lady, hey lady “did you just come out of the restroom”?  She says, “I did”.  He asks her if she could hear him in the restroom?  She replys that, “no she couldn’t hear anything while she was in there”.  He replys to her, ” lady we sure heard you out here”.   Hehehee

Another story,

In our office where I worked at one time, the ceiling panels were being replaced.  The ceiling workers had removed all the panels and of course never returned to put in the new framework and panels for the new ceiling.  Everything was open above the wall partitions.  Every sound made, bounced around in that concrete structure like a rubber ball.  My office and my buddies office were about two offices down the hall from the womens restroom. I was out of the office a lot, so things did not bother me as much as they did my buddy.  He was getting a little tired of hearing all the restroom sounds.  So he wrote up a little story about the sounds, and him being a Navy man, he related the stories to a submarine or gun boat. You know, The call to emergency stations, the closing of the hatches, the loading of the torpedoes, the firing of the torpedoes,   the explosion of the torpedoes,  the all clear given, the return to normal conditions.  Anyway you get the idea.  He did however go into a little more detail about the sounds of the torpedoes hitting the water and the sound they made slideing through the water and the sound of depth charges going off around the submarine during the battle.  The groaning and labor of metal from being under excessive pressure.  It was funny.  Personally, in the morning, I thought it sounded a little bit like a chorus warming up.  How do they sing, ” doe, ra, me, fa, sew, la, tea, doe,”  in harmony ?????.

Anyway, Bill writes this story, calls me into his office, has me read the story and askes me if he should send it on up to the next level of the chain of command or maybe just go and relay the message personnely to him or just tell someone, that someone ought to do something about getting the ceiling panels replaced, that hearing all these restroom noises is disgusting and distracting. 

 I encouraged him to send the message, to go for it. It’s a good story and might bring a little chuckle to someones otherwise dull day and actually convince someone to get the work done.  He was still worried about the consequences or that he might hurt someones feelings, and decided to think about it.  I went back to my office.  A while later I saw him leave his office. It was not long after he left that a couple of fellows that he showed the story to, entered his offfice, and the story magically appeared on about 100 computers instantly.   A few days later, they completed installing the ceiling. 

Talk about getting results?  The gal that was in charge of the project and used that restroom must of had a realization.

I’ve never really told Bill, how his story got out,  but he has his suspicions.  He did however, get a pat on the back from the boss for speeding up the project and for giving everyone a chuckle, except for maybe the ladies.  Talk about gunboat deplomacy.

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From: Bill Grimme

To: larry hackman

Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:03 PM

Subject: women’s_toilet

 

Pretty funny, Larry.

There was a place in Oakland, CA called the “Last Chance Saloon” where Jack London used to hang out. Anyway, it’s an old place and a lot of tourists went there (my experience was in the ’70s.) They had a speaker in the ladies room and the bartender would say things that sounded like they came out of the toilet, like “hey, who turned out the lights” or “careful, there are workers down here”. Women would come out looking really embarrassed. This video reminded me of that.

Bill