This Email Just In From My Amoeba
LESS OF A PROMISE THAN IT SEEMS
This morning (10 December 2009), Your Friendly Neighborhood Amoeba was riding his bicycle to work, when he pulled up behind a small truck that was stopped at a red light.
Printed in red letters on the back of this vehicle (upper left corner) were these words.
How’s My Driving?
[Phone number]
We Reward Safe Driving
A wonderful example of corporate responsibility in these tough times. Right?
Right??
Well, maybe.
Did I mention what kind of truck this was?
It was an armored car.
So of course this company rewards safe driving. The drivers surely belong to the Teamsters, and their union isn’t about to let its members work for free.
O’Ceallaigh & The Quill
Wait — that’s not fair! Even if they cause the accidents they’re still safe drivers!
I’d be safe, too, if I drove an armored truck!
So far, so good in my non-armored minivan.
Karen — I know it’s not Monday, but when it’s Amoeba there is usually a pun involved.
I get it. Safe driving is how their employees vault ahead.
By the way, Quilly, you have actually wound up your blogging to the point that my RSS feeder is distracting me from reading your posts.
Doug — your puns are iron clad winners! As to my posts, brace yourself. Google is about to go into meltdown — I have three PPP offers set to expire within 24 hours of not posted. Tis the season ….
Google Reader is the bomb!!! Yes it might be slow at times, but it eventually picks up everything…and of course, signs you out at times by itself…Ah yes, Q…’tis the season
Thom — I do love my Google Reader. It saves me tons of time because I don’t keep checking back on blogs that have no new posts!
A lot of waggons here have that on their rear. Not sure how many people make the call thought.
I will tell you this my friend, they are jolly on the spot if they don’t like how we drive to make a complaint.It disgusts me to know end. You try and be a very courtesy driver, and no one, correction, or very few call in for that, but you do one thing a driver doesn’t like and they have our complaint line on speed dial!
Thom — praise calls don’t get made because folks just naturally assume being careful is part of the driver’s job. They don’t know how difficult driving the bus can be.
Being a member of the Teamsters do you know what company this was? And secondly, I don’t get your point about our union letting us work for free when the bumper sticker clearly states that they reward for safe driving. How does that relate back to their wages? I would think, as we have at TheBus, it is an incentive for driving safely. I’m just sayin’
Thom — the armored truck is a safe. A SAFE. They are SAFE drivers. Oh never mind. Pft.
BITE ME!!!!
LOL! Poor Thom.
If it’s any consolation, I think the bus drivers in Hawaii are the best and safest drivers on these roads.
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You don’t think the Oahu bus drivers are the safest drivers on this island?
I should have known that this would be as abstract as Punny Monday. The post Queen strikes yet again
Once again, read the post — this was an email from Amoeba!
But was it him that did the whole post or was it you? hmmm
It’s my blog. I posted his email.
Well, Thom, there aren’t many candidates for the honor, especially in Honolulu, but I will say it’s not the one that I otherwise could have accused of Brinksmanship.
Ahhhh and being a city bus driver and can say the same about most, and I’m not pointing fingers here, bicycle riders as well. And No Quilly I’m not saying we aren’t the best. I think we are…I was pfffft to Poor Thom LOL. And yes it’s your blog…you just made my point about being the Posting Queen. Thank you very much. Now speaking of 40 foot buses…I’m off to work. I’ll be thinking about that bumper sticker all day
But Thom, you don’t have to worry about the sticker. You won’t be a safe driver, you’ll be a bus driver.
Some of the Best Drivers out there are the Transit Operators and the Long Haul Truckers.
And lets not even touch on the Pre Inspection that one must do if they are professional drivers, and you see a lot of vehicles out there with burned out lights that should be working, tires bald or low on air and pieces of vehicles hanging off which could come off and damage other vehicles.
I think we need to get back to the Horse n’ Buggy.
We have buses, trucks and other vehicles with this on them. I wonder how many really call in though??
Bill — I have many times been tempted to dial one of those numbers, but I haven’t yet. Interestingly enough, it is rarely the huge rigs that I have issues with. It is the folks in the company cars and trucks that go zooming through traffic like a juggernaut.
I don’t think you’d like driving here in Calgary, I swear most of these “So Called” Professional Drivers got their Licences out of a Cracker Jack Box.
The Taxi’s and Limo Drivers seem to be the worse. Last Night we had a Snow Storm all night, Thank God it was the Grave Yard Shift with not much traffic. I had one Taxi following me really close, blew his horn because I was driving Too Slow for him and flew by me in the Right Hand Lane.
This is with Ice Covered Snowy Roads. And he had Passengers in his car.
At least you don’t have the snow to add to your woes in Hawaii.
Bill — in Hawaii if a road is posted 35 miles an hour you can expect traffic will be going 20 mph faster. Snow might slow them down.
Glad to see that Amoeba has not given up on blogging entirely!!
Gigi — if he won’t post for himself, then I will just post his funny emails on my blog.
One must always read between the lines.
Car Goes Boom
Nessa — one should also carefully consider the PUN-tuation of anything s/he reads!
Arrrggh! I read this earlier and totally missed the SAFE connection. I’m a little slow on the draw today. I better get CRACKing!
You missed. YOU missed it? Oh my gosh. Now I have to apologize to Thom.
I’m pretty sure that Thom still did not secure the combination of puns and compliments.
Kelley — he’s the most clueless smart person I know.
Ya know… I am SLOW this week! Must be the muscle relaxers or something… I had to read through some of the comments before I finally GOT IT! This is definitely one of those times when the conversation in the comments is much better than the original post!!! LOL!
Melli — my blog comes to life in the comment section.
After reading the comments, I too did finally “get it”!
They are “safe” drivers! Duh!! I agree with Melli, the comments were worth the whole post! 
Betty — Amoeba loves words with double meanings. Talking with him is always tricky.
Well, this will teach me to put off blogging until the end of the day… every “Safe” pun has already been hit in the comments, so meh, I won’t even try LOL. But that does make the safe-driving sign hilarious!
(And it’s good to see Amoeba meanwhile!)
Susan — you come in late it’s a safe bet you’ll be locked out and every combination of words will have been used.
I wonder what happens if the driver blows it and someone calls the number? do they reward the caller I wonder? The world may never know………..
Amanda — you didn’t read the comments did you? I’m afraid you totally missed the joke.
LOL. What a post! I do believe that the comments made it even better. Good to see that Amoeba still has another plug in channel
. Have a wonderful weekend.
Rosidah — Amoeba sent me an email. I posted it. As long as I am online he won’t be too far away!
your very first comment did it for me, Q.
damn, and i’m just a muse driver (as, clio)