vogons

The Vogons are after me!

I was working Grave Yard shift out of West Los Angeles one night when I got a trouble call of a woman getting shocks. So My helper and I headed over to the address and knocked on the door. An elderly lady answered the door and said that "Vogons from the planet Vogania had infected her house and would not let her use her desk without shocking her."

I don't mind helping out these kind of wackos so I went back out to my trouble van and got on a face shield, my haz-mat coveralls, 10kv rubber gloves and a fluke meter. I went back in and said, "show me where the problem is mam". She takes me in to her study and Says"Over There". I turned on the Fluke to continuity tester and started to beep it slow at first then faster as I got to the desk. I could see that it was a metal desk and it had a brass lamp on it. As I got to the lamp I kept the fluke leads together and said I think I have em cornered and unplugged the Lamp from the wall.

She said well how are we going to get rid of them then. So I told her that as a major electric utility we put all our infected devices in a haz-mat barrel. And that we had a contract with NASA and that all the Space Shuttles were actually going up and dropping the Vogons back in space.

She asked if I would add her lamp to the barrel. I told her that we don't offer that service to customer owned equipment as the cost would be too high, but if she promised not to tell anyone that I would put my job on the line and sneak it in.

When I left she was quit happy and confessed that 5 other trouble guys had been there and was glad that I was the only one to take her serious.

As for the Lamp I put a new cord on it and haven't had any re infection of aliens in it for the last 10 years.