Orange & White Plastic Roadside Construction Barrel | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Once upon a time there was a small businessman who had a small business in his small garage. He was a tinkerer. He tinkered in lots of different areas. He loved his small business, made small money and his wife Hazel brought him a big sandwich every day at lunch time.

    During the course of his tinkering, he invented that Orange and White Plastic Roadside Construction Warning Barrel. I am, of course, referring to the Orange and White Barrels that we see along our roadsides wherever there is road construction going on.

    Our little businessman enjoyed his work and he enjoyed the pace at which he worked. He made about seven and a half barrels each day. Any day he got his output up to eight barrels he felt extremely satisfied.

    One day he was tinkering away on his third barrel when the mailman came with a delivery that was much larger than the usual amount of mail. Once he started opening his mail, he found himself equal parts shocked and delighted. His ship had come in!

    What had happened was that the Planet Earth had discovered his Orange and White Plastic Roadside Construction Warning Barrel. When he had finished opening his mail, he realized that he had received orders for 17.75 billion barrels!

    As the size of his good fortune was sinking in, his wife came in with his lunch. Without even looking up he said, "Hazel, looks like expenses are going to go up. We have to call your brother back from layoff."

    Would I kid u?

    Smartfella
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( February 19th, 2016 @ 2:59 pm )
 
If he would just turn the barrel over and start making these, he could bring his brother Justin Wilson back to work. "I gar-on-tee!"
( February 10th, 2016 @ 6:07 pm )
 
Is this the same guy that invented those plastic orange cones? I'll bet that most of his mail was postmarked somewhere in Atlanta. They could save a lot of money if they would just make them out of concrete and paint them orange since we never seem to finish the road work in this city.



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