A Jellyfish kind of Day
> Are YOU having a "jellyfish" kind of day?
>
> This is even funnier when you realize it's real! Next time you have a
> bad
> day at work ... Think of this guy, Rob a commercial saturation diver
> for Global Divers in Louisiana. He performs underwater repairs on
> Offshore drilling rigs.
>
> Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio
> station 103.2 on FM dial in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, who was Sponsoring a
> worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won.
>
> Hi, Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had
> a bad day at the office. I know you've been
> feeling down lately
> at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you
> realize it's not so bad after all.
>
> Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a
> few technicalities of my job.
>
> As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit
> to the office. It's a wetsuit. This time of year the water is quite
> cool. So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered
> industrial water heater.
>
> This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It
> heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver
> through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose.
>
> Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times
> with no complaints. What I do, when I get to the bottom and start
> working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wetsuit. This
> floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a
> Jacuzzi.
>
> Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to
> itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse.
>
> Within a few seconds my butt started to burn I pulled the hose out
> from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had
> happened. The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it
> into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish
> couldn't stick to it. However, the crack of my butt was
> not as fortunate.
>
> When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the
> jellyfish into the crack of my butt ...
>
> I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His
> instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other
> divers, were all laughing hysterically .!!!!
>
> Needless to say I aborted the dive.
>
> I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops
> totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin
> my
> chamber dry decompression. When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing
> nothing but my brass helmet.
>
> As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter
> running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub
> it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire
> out, but I couldn't poop for two days because my butt was swollen
> shut.
>
> So, next time you're having a bad day at work...think about how much
> worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt.
>
> Now repeat THIS to yourself, "I LOVE my job, I LOVE my job, I LOVE my
> job."
>
> Whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, "Is this a jellyfish bad
> day?"
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