They Try To Make Things Harder Than They Are

Boys are not good at re-stocking the toilet paper roll.

Today’s Exploit:

Today I had to change a sensor, so I called to the rig floor to ask them to shut down the pumps and send someone to close the valve in the drill line.  I didn’t want to get a mud-shower.  

I got my replacement sensor and the tools to change it.  But by the time I got to my old sensor 4 roughnecks were trying to take the sensor base off.

I yelled for them to stop, and they all looked at me blankly.   

Me:  I only need to change this piece!

RN1:  You don’t need the whole thing off?

Me:  No, I just need to take this protector piece off.

RN2:  It comes apart there?  

Me:  Yep, just have to take out these bolts and then take the sensor off.  

RN4:  Wow!

So we took off the protector.  They wouldn’t let me do any of the work, as usual.

Then Number 3 started looking for a wrench.  

RN3:  Do you have a smaller one, thinner?

Me: What?

RN3:  It doesn’t work, it’s too big.

Me:  Oh.  

I took it off by hand.  

Number 3 looked really embarrassed, and Numbers 1, 2 and 4 laughed at him as he proceeded to take the sensor off and give all of us a mud-shower.  

PS Oil based mud smells really bad.