Call about mechanical bull leaks stirs a memory
If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times.
“You never rode a mechanical bull!”
“Believe me, I’ve ridden a mechanical bull,” I say.
This happened recently at a party, during one of those ice-breakers when everyone writes a surprising fact about themselves on a slip of paper, then the slips are drawn, and everyone tries to guess who goes with which fact.
“Bull!” someone said (of course) when I was matched with my fact, and everyone laughed.
“Remember to back me up on this,” I had said to my husband when we filled out our slips of paper.
“What if I don’t?”
“Today could become difficult for you.”
“Is that so?”
And at the crucial moment … he did back me up.
“Realize now,” I told everyone, “I was only on the thing for about a second, but it still counts.”
You may wonder why I’m telling this story here, to which I’ll say:
- Have you ever seen a mechanical bull squirt hydraulic fluid?
- Been covered in the stuff as you’re trying to repair it?
- Had to find a way to clean all that up?
We had a call yesterday from a mechanical bull repairman who runs into this all the time but had just heard of PIG® Absorbents.
“Got something that can help me?”
“You came to the right place,” our rep, Peggy, said and then helped him order some PIG® Absorbent Mat and then told me the story—and then of course, I had to tell her mine …
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Please note: You might want to go back now and read aloud the first word of each paragraph in this post. Treat each bulleted sentence as its own paragraph.
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April 1st, 2009 at 11:42 am
Excellent.. !