• dan1101@lemmy.world
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    I’m glad people do that job, but I don’t know how they can stand to do that job.

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        Do you have a sense of smell. I have a buddy that got into a couple of bad accidents and can’t smell anything anymore.

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          I do.

          I cook a lot and often by nose, as in I can gauge how weak or strong the seasoning of my food is by the smell, and it rarely fails me.

          I also know when I’m sick or sick-ish by not smelling or not finding as pungent the odor of the nasty stuff.

          You do get desensitized over time and the smells become more tolerable. I’ve met guys that can tell if a given place is going to be troublesome to clean just by smelling the odors wafting out and looking at the colour. Others never stop feeling nauseated or even gagging when some particularly nasty smells hit them.

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    I’ve also seen gasoline tankers with a picture of Yosemite Sam and the caption “We ain’t haulin’ milk!” - I’m guessing this is a riff on those.

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    My very first car accident, I rear-ended a septic truck. Fortunately it was empty at the time.

    Every word of that makes it sound like I’m making a joke, but I’m not.

    However, if you would like a joke, we were near a storage unit facility. The entrance required a code to open. While we were waiting for the police to arrive to make our report, the driver of the septic truck observed that the gate had a sign saying “Do Not Tailgate” and that perhaps I would have done well to listen.

    Back to simple facts, at the time I worked at a convenience store. It turned out that the person who delivered Tastykake to our location was friends with the septic truck driver. The Dodge Neon I was driving at the time had done absolutely no damage to the truck so, working through this proxy, I was able to convince the other driver not to show up to our court date. Therefore I was able to escape any legal or financial consequences for my poor driving.

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    Reminds me of the vacuum truck I’ve seen around where I live, with the slogan we’ll suck anything.

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    Is this like in Japan where they have trucks to like empty tanks because there isn’t full sewage coverage?