Emo-isms

 

I'm a great lover, I'll bet.

Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.

I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky---but there wasn't any gum under any of them.

The other day a woman came up to me and said, "Didn't I see you on television?" I said, "I don't know. You can't see out the other way."

I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming... They don't know I'm only using blanks.

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well."

I went into Gus' artificial organ and taco stand. I said "Give me a bladder por favor." The guy said "Is that to go?" I said, "Well what else would I want it for?"

The toughest time...in anyone's life...is when you have to kill a loved one just because they're the devil. Other than that, though, it's been a pretty good day.

Why hate people for race, color or creed, when there are so many other reasons to hate them?

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."

Sometimes I think I'd be better off dead. No, wait, not me, you.

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.

 

 

As for me, I was given a lecture by the judge about work ethics and taken off of the project, and Lawson was removed as well. The judge obviously didn't believe the Sink's testimonial, calling him a confused, young, inexperienced engineer.

 

Sink had trouble explaining the changes made to the test data. The best he could do was: "we were running a little behind on schedule, and knew the brake would work out, and we wanted things to look good to keep superficial decisions to end the project." Not the best of defenses.

 

Jeter's explanation immediately contradicted Sink's. He said that no data had been changed. He told the court that to believe that over 30 engineers would stand by and let someone change data that could affect the safety of people's lives is ridiculous.

 

The court case ended with no real closure, as the verdict practically just dismissed the whole thing, but it goes without saying that both Jeter and Sink were fired. Bud Sunderman and Line were fired as well, but Sunderman's superior, as collaborators in the operation. The next day, the Department of Defense made an announcement to the Air Force apologizing for the shoddily done inspections, and promptly rewrote all of their inspection policies, realizing that there were some major holes in their old ones.

 

Now, the A7D is now using a five disk Goodrich-made disk brake, which works quite well, as I am told Business at the plant is doing well. I am now Production Superintendent, and quite happy. I never thought for a second I would get out of this clean, but, somehow, I did.