Love your load
Relatively new to my place of work of only 3 weeks in, I've been signed up to a manual handling course. Thinking it was all easy and won't last that long, I happily attended and thought nothing much of it.

The guy who signed me up for it had a good saying/name/quote for this course: "Love your box". This is because the way we are trained we have to hold the box as if we were hugging someone around their waist, literally.

The training wasn't so bad, with the trainer being quite a nice lady in her 30s. I had a few other collegues with me too, I think 5-6 in total.

I was dead wrong however with the training, it lasted for 3 hours and we went through a lot of scientific shit on the bones and stuff.

Needless to say, I was bored shitless and falling asleep/losing it, but when it finally ended the guy who signed us all up came in and had a chat with the trainer. After the short chatter, as we were getting ready to leave, he says to everyone

"Anyone remember the quote?"

I responded instantly (because I wanted to flee, fast) quite loud so everyone can hear with:

"Yeh, love your load."

The room went quiet temporarily, maybe for 2-3 seconds. I suddenly realised what I said and went slightly red. The lady trainer laughed too and so did a few others, but with a slight face of disgust.

I quickly explained I was thinking of the American term for "luggage" (like the back of a trailer/truck) but I think it was too late. My guy who arranged it kinda laughed but for some reason was more serious about it and left the room.

Well I returned to the office alone (I went in the loo to cool off temporarily and to stop bursting into laughter). That guy saw me again and went up to me and said:

"It's ok to love your own load, but another man's? Ewww."

I smiled nodded and decided to keep quiet for the remainder of the day.

:(
(robo-kai, Fri 28 Nov 2008, 9:37, 1 reply)

What I find funny is...
"box" being another word for ladyparts, means the original slogan "Love your box" translates into "Love your vagina"

Classy!
(Strangechap I look normal on the outside..., Fri 28 Nov 2008, 10:49, closed)