[bc-chris]

A parking story for you…

Years ago I was a forklift operator for a local construction company. We had some sweet lifts – skytrack 10054’s… 54’ boom – sweeeeeet!!

Anyways – the one job we were at in kelowna the foreman from (I think) the drywallers would always park in the only access I had to the site – clearly marked “NO PARKING”. There were tons of other spots to go park but he insisted on parking there. I had asked him a number of times to not park there and he never listened/respected the request. This dude had major ‘little man’ syndrome! So the one day he took his usual parking spot and went into the site. I was having a crappy day and was not in the mood for this guy – so I went and got 2 lifts of plywood and blocked him in with plywood on either side of his truck and the forklift behind him. His only ‘out’ was straight ahead – which was a plywood fence surrounding the site. I took the keys to the fork lift and headed into the building, told my foreman what I did – we both laughed and I headed to the top floor to do back-framing. The guy comes out and tries to leave and is absolutely snapping!! Totally losses it. He checked the forklift and there were no keys so he comes storming into the building looking for me. By this time, my entire crew knew what I did so they kept radioing me where he was so I could get to a different floor/other end of the building – ha! ha! Eventually he gives up and goes to his truck - puts it in gear and destroys the fence (and his paint job) and leaves.

The next day he shows up and doesn’t block the entrance to the site – I drive by, wave, and thank him for not blocking my only access to the site…. I don’t think he was impressed!!