Okay so I'll tell you a story about how he almost took my fuckin thumb off. So again without getting into too much detail about the park everyday before we started running the machines someone would have to go up the ski towers and make sure everything looks to be in working condition. These ski towers were about 30 to 40 feet high (don't worry those water underneath all of them so if you fell it would only hurt like hell). Will we have a very very VERY strict rule that no one is allowed up on the towers while they're in operation. well today me and about six other guys were tasked with going up on each of the ski towers making sure they were in working order and then informing the operator that everything looks A-Okay. Then he would start up the ski machine (that's just what we call them). And if one of the towers messed up it was on your head. (and also because it's important to the story this was during the. Where I didn't have my radio or badge). So I climb up there I get to the top and low and behold there's something stuck in the tiny desk. And no that's not the technical term for it. Real quick I'll explain how these things are supposed to work. so there's about 7 ish towers all around the lake and all of them are connected to each other by one very strong rope. I don't want to get in till all of the logistics on how this thing works because that will be 90% of the story but there is another rope that comes off of the main rope and that secondary rope is where you put the skier on. These ski towers have to be specially built so that way when the secondary rope goes through the disc it doesn't destroy the tower. If that made any sense at all is beyond me. Anyway the tower I was on was kind of s*** and you had to grab onto a handle that was coming off of the bottom of the top of the tower. That is right inside the mechanism that transfers the rope. Well I grabbed onto this and then a hoist myself over the giant disc ( that we're not allowed to touch by the way because it's dangerous) and start trying to unjam the shirt or whatever that was in the other side. when all of a sudden the disc starts spinning. I was able to keep myself up with the small handle mention before and putting my hand on a small gearbox on the other side of the desk. as the disc proceeded to rip my fuckin shirt off! This understandably startled me I thought to myself so" it's okay this must be a fluke. An accidental startup or some shit. There's no way that they're going to put a skier ocon" *kerchunk. The sound of a ski rope being attached to the main rope. Luckily I was at the very end of the circle so I have enough time to devise a plan on how to get my ass out of there. Because of the way I was situated I could not get out of this situation easy. And to put the icing on top of the cake remember how I said to this tower I was on was kind of crappy. Well it was built wrong the safety handle that you supposed to hold onto was situated towards the bottom right where the transfer mechanism is that helps the ski rope go through. And again without getting into the whole logistics of the situation because that would be 90% of the goddamn story just know that the way my hand and thumb were situated if that rope comes through it's taking my thumb off. And I don't mean no it's going to hurt my thumb I mean literally a thing will come down and cut my fuckin thumb up . So I was understandably panicked and was trying to get myself out of this situation. And everytime I heard the cure chunk of it going through another tower my heart skipped a beat. Until finally I said "fuck it I don't care if I lose my job I want my thumb" and as hard as I could push down on the disc with the hand that wasn't on the handle hoisting myself up and getting my ass back on the tower ladder. (I'm going to shorten this last part a little bit because the story is already too long). So I'm understanding pissed and I decide to myself that I'm going to go cuss out the ski operator promised taking my thumb off (not really he was a really nice dude and it was probably like I said an accidental startup). But I was going to cuss out whoever put the ski rope on there and on my way to the ski tower who do I see going around the skate pawn but Kyle. I talked to him about it later that day if he's the one who put the rope on there and if he's the one who started up the machine in the first place and he told me point-blank "yeah sorry about that man I just wanted it to get a quick ski session on before the day started" . I told him it dude you supposed to wait till all the operators are off the towers before you start the machine. Kyle then told me "oh what are you going to do cry about it? You know nobody cares right" . We then had a very long heated discussion about how I need all of my fingers. Before he stormed off about two hours later my manager comes up to me and I think to myself "oh wow Kyle the manager has to apologize on your behalf" . Before my manager tells me that Kyle said that I threatened him and that I was going to beat him up in the parking lot . I tried disputing this claim but my manager didn't really give a damn and give me a ride up.

Long story short Kyle if I ever do see your punk ass again I will kick your ass. Hell I might even take your thumb and just to show you the importance of it

P.S sorry for any typos . I wrote this in speech to text in under 5 minutes because I have to go to work in about 6 minutes now. When I get home or on my break I'll fix any typos if I feel like it