Bodacious Boomer » fox http://bodaciousboomer.com Because sometimes it just needs to be said Tue, 22 May 2012 01:14:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Never hire a fox to guard the henhouse http://bodaciousboomer.com/2009/11/never-hire-a-fox-to-guard-the-henhouse/ http://bodaciousboomer.com/2009/11/never-hire-a-fox-to-guard-the-henhouse/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:32:06 +0000 Michele http://bodaciousboomer.com/?p=3097 (Read More)]]> Many years ago Doug and I had a beer booth at the Galveston Mardi Gras. The celebration in Galveston was held on two consecutive weekends with nothing going on during the week. For whatever reason the beer distributors showed up on Friday night with our initial order. I can’t begin to tell you how many cases of beer that was. However, it was a ton. Anyway, we didn’t really want to leave all that beer on the street all night unguarded, so we hired a friend of a friend to “Guard it” so to speak from 12am- 9 am the next day, when we would arrive. The guy was going to get $40 for his time. We just thought if someone was in the booth with it nobody would try to back up there truck and make off with it in the middle of the night.

We got there the next day and discovered our “guard” was falling down drunk. Not just tipsy, but completely blotto. On the plus side almost of the beer was still there.  Anyway, it was a learning experience for us. I saw the following clip on the Today show this morning. Apparently this distillery in Russia had not learned this lesson yet. Their losses were estimated to be between $150,000.

Remember: Never let a drunk drive a forklift. Today’s trivia answer-the swan.

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