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To: ETL
I don't know where that gif came from, but I can't stop laughing at it.

A little context as to why: My Old Man tells a story how when he would stop for lunch with his designer employee on the way back to the office from a jobsite, and the employee would always order the same thing, a patty melt and French fries. When the order came, as my father explains it, this employee would take the ketchup bottle (which seemed like it was always a fresh bottle), and uncap it and invert the bottle over the plate and sit there waiting for the ketchup to magically come out of the bottle, like he had nowhere to be in the next 3 days... when in actuality, the Old Man wanted to get back to the office ASAP and start drawing up what they had just field dimensioned, or get started writing an engineering proposal for the possible new job they just looked at. The Old Man had somewhere to be... but not his designer... sitting there sighing waiting, for the ketchup to come out of the bottle, or maybe rapture... or maybe both.

The Old Man always demonstrated his former employee's technique as this story gets told... as the story is always told at the very same diner they would always stop at, and a bottle was available on the table to use as a visual aid.

Picturing my father holding that bottle, giving the gentlest shakes, like he didn't want ketchup to come out... and then my father explaining how he always wanted to grab the bottle out of his employee's hand and violently shake out half the bottle on his fries... Oh, geez... seeing that gif totally reminds me of that story... I just can't stop laughing.

33 posted on 08/25/2015 11:07:25 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Rodamala
I don't know where that gif came from, but I can't stop laughing at it.

I didn't create it myself, in case you were wondering. I found it on the web.

44 posted on 08/25/2015 4:00:16 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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