After twenty years of Lineman/Serviceman the most memorable
experiance that still stands out in my mind is of the Friday night partial
lights trouble call I recieved from Dispatch back in 1989. It was a chilly
November evening in Enid Oklahoma. I arrived at the residence of an elderly
gentlemans home. Knocking on the front door, to my amazement, I witnessed an
elderly gentleman coming to the door in his wheelchair, both legs missing and
buck naked. He invited me in and told me that he had lights in some parts of
the house and none in the other parts of the house. After showing me where his
fuse panel was I was able to replace a bad scew type fuse and get his partial
lights back on. All this time he was nonchalant about his presents and we
accually had a small converastion about how he lost his legs in the Navy.
After leaving his home the only thing I could think about was, What would have
happened if Patty was on call that week and got this call??