Doings of Dudley Doolittle: This is the name I use in the sometimes hilarious, outrageous, or cynical short stories posted monthly.
A fictitious name will be used in most of the stories. It is there to protect the identity of the guilty.
These true stories are over half a century old or more.
PERSISTENCE PAYS…OR DUDLEY DID IT AGAIN!
Back in the nineteen sixties my friend Dudley took a truck driving job at the Superior Fiber Board plant in Superior, Wisconsin, while he was awaiting his two year stint in the navy to begin. The job wasn’t too complicated, it consisted of driving a dump truck filled with trimmings of fiberboard from the factory to the dump some five miles away, tipping up the box, dumping it as close to the fire as possible, and returning with the empty truck.
As Dudley was making one of his routine trips to the dump one day, he went through his usual procedure, but the fiberboard refused to slide out. Being the clever chap that he was he merely pulled ahead, then backed up and slammed on the brakes to dislodge the cargo…whoops! The load didn’t come out…the front of the truck instead began to raise high in the air, higher and higher, and finally back into the fire it all went…yes it all burned up and Dudley was off to the Navy.
The story doesn’t end here, in fact the plot thickens.
Yes, two years later Dudley was back at the Fiberboard plant and demanding his old job. They refused and Dudley, being a persistent Irishman that knew his rights, went to the proper government agency to put the pressure on management.
Reinstated on his job Dudley made his first trip to the dump. Did his usual routine, and lo and behold his cargo stuck again…Dudley knew exactly what to do, and he did it…yes the unthinkable.
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