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    Just gotta share this.....
    So, I'm coming back from a car show in Bend Ore this last weekend and I stop with my group at a nice place in Cougar Washington.
    Good meal and good company.
    I excuse myself and get up and head back to the men's room and drop trow and sit there a while looking at the pix I took on my camera while nature does it's thing.
    Next thing I know, the John I'm sitting on goes "PoP" and jumps up a couple of inches with me sitting one it.
    Fuggin' earthquake, I think..... No, nothing more. Must have been a passing logging truck or something, I think. I settle back into my commune with Nature....POP!!! The growler drops back down a couple of inches.
    WTF!!!?????? POP, up a couple of inches again and then I hear the John in the Ladies room flush.
    It dawned on me that the John I'm sitting on and the John in the first stall in the Ladies room are most likely hooked to the same common Pipe, Kinda' making it a big teeter totter.

    No sooner than I come to this earth shattering deduction, POP again. I go up a couple of inches.
    That does it. I stand up and clean up and buckle my pants and climb up on the commode while holding the top of my stall and then "jumpity jump jump jump" up and down on the rim while holding the top of the stall for balance.

    "shriek shriek" I hear from the ladies room and then in some high pitched
    oriental language, jabber jabber jabber, around the corner and down the hall in some high pitched wail. Guess I showed her not to mess with a Man on a mission!!!

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    now that is a interesting story. you do have a mean streak.
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    Man, you're twisted.......

    ...I like that!!!
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    Dogtag,

    Great story, I almost wet myself. At least it wasn't a big snake making it's way out of the drain.

    Jack.

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    Similar plumbing configuration in the latrines here in our office complex.. While not three inches, it is a "noticeable" shift when someone occupies the corresponding mug on the other side of the wall..

    I've not tried the jump up and down thing - sounds like that could lead to some real "interesting" reactions?
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    Rrumbler, I’m going to take off the story with respect to your co-workers, that weren’t as lucky as me, while I was young and dumb and looking back I was an Idiot. I worked around high voltage in the Steel Mills. We would lay chains across the hot rails when we were doing a rail change for an overhead crane. For our safety better to blowout the power then loose a worker. I sure wouldn’t want to give anyone the idea of what I got away with for someone to try his or her luck.

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    "Two of us crazy guys decide to climb up the telephone poles outside of the Tavern we get as close to the top without touching the wires. For some reason we get the poles swinging back and forth when we realize they are not going to fall"

    Richard you sure your not one of my fellow Georgians ¿...that's one of those Hold my Beer and watch this
    that's a good woman to clean up your mess on your car. Guess you knew then she was a keeper.
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    The 60’s were some crazy times, there are probably more then a few of us looking back would admit to doing some things we wouldn’t do today.

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    Thanks for one of the best laughs I've had in a while, Dogtag; the imagination is working overtime on that one.

    Richard, you are lucky you are still here. I spent a good part of my life up on poles and towers with HIGH VOLTAGE wires and cables and apparatus, a ways above the telephone and TV cable level. Lost a few co-workers over the years to accidents, and had a few myself; also had to clean up after a few idiots (no offense intended) who did stuff like you mentioned and didn't fare so well as you did. Surprisingly, you can get pretty close to most distribution primary voltages, usually from about 2,000 to 25,000 volts, as long as you don't get closer than what is called the touch or reach boundary, somewhere between 18 inches to three feet, depending on the voltage and atmospheric/environmental conditions; after that, all bets are off. Sorry if this sounds preachy.
    Rrumbler, Aka: Hey you, "Old School", Hairy, and other unsavory monickers.

    Twistin' and bangin' on stuff for about sixty or so years; beat up and busted, but not entirely dead - yet.

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