In A Universe Far Far Away

Once upon a time at the collage in a universe far far away there was this guy and he had made a lot of friends all over the campus and his job was to get things for people and he took pride in his ability to do that. So the college in its infinite wisdom,(and what a wise college it was, because that was its job, to be wise and to teach lots and lots people things they didn't know) decided it needed to order a very fancy trailer that would purify drinking water so that if there was a disaster and the drinking water was compromised, they would be able to purify the tainted water for everyone so they wouldn't have to go thirsty. One of this guy's people ordered it and it was supposed to show up on a flatbed truck so they could scoop it off with a fork lift and roll it away to where it was supposed to sit for the awaited disaster. It appeared in a closed trailer truck with no ramp. So the guys with the forklift didn't know what to do. They couldn't fork lift it out of the back door of the closed in semi trailer. So word was sent out across the vast campus to find a loading dock so that they could back the semi trailer up to it and unload the trailer that purified water. No loading dock could be found, because it turned out that the semi truck was a special truck and it was too tall for all the loading docks at the college. Then one very wise Receiving Department guy remembered that there was a building being remodeled that did have a loading dock that was tall enough because the building used to be a department store warehouse, so our first guy (whose job it was to get these things and make everyone happy) made the truck driver clear his passenger seat (which was in effect the truck driver's office and home away from home and in fact our guy was the very first person ever to sit in that passenger seat in that cab ever) and our guy climbed in with him and directed him to the building they were remodeling and then went in and got the construction guys to move all of their trucks so the trailer could back into the dock. Then our guy realized that there needed someone to receive the trailer out of the truck since this building was under construction and not even open yet, so he called the forklift guys and asked them to send four guys over to help and then he called his great friend in Central Receiving and asked to borrow four of his guys and when they all showed up, the ten of them (our guy and the truck driver included, because the truck driver wanted to go home) pulled the trailer out of the semi truck. There was a ramp that went down from the dock to the street, and our guy knew he had to take the opportunity by the trailer hitch (so to speak) because he knew that it would take months for the very wise college to figure out how to get the trailer from the dock to the street. So he convinced these other eight guys that they had enough muscle power just to roll it down the ramp. The truck driver was done, his goods were dispatched, all of his belongings were repositioned back into his passenger seat and our guy had signed the papers. So as he drove off, the nine guys very carefully, with very worried looks on their faces dragged this rather large four wheeled trailer with all of its fancy interior equipment down this forty foot ramp so the trailer would be ready for someone to come with a truck and a trailer hitch and trail it away to proper spot. (It reminded our guy of the scene in Matewan where the scab guys in the factory surround a deer so they can force it outside and back to the forest).

The guy with the college that was in charge of this trailer said thank you. And our guy went back to his office very sweaty to finish his day.

I related this story to someone at my new job and was told I was weaving a tall tale, and I am.