This was sent to me by one of our Maintenance Engineers ... obviously not written by a pilot, to funny not to share. A man was in a pet shop in Winchester looking at animals when a Chief Petty Officer from the local Naval Air Station entered and told the shopkeeper, “I want a Line Service Monkey, please.” The clerk nodded, went back to a cage and returned with a monkey. “That’ll be $1,000, Chief.” The Chief paid and left. The surprised man asked the shopkeeper, “That was a lot of money. Why was that monkey so expensive?” The shopkeeper answered, “Because a Line Service Monkey can park, fuel, and service naval aircraft, conduct required ground ops testing, rig aircraft flight controls, and is trained in carrier flight deck ops. He’s worth it.” Now interested, he spotted another monkey with a $10,000 price tag. “What? A ten grand monkey? What can it do?” “That’s a Maintenance Supervisor monkey. It teaches aircraft maintenance, supervises corrective and preventive maintenance programs, supervises crews of maintainers, and do all the paperwork. A very useful monkey, indeed!” The guy found a third monkey with a price tag of $50,000. “Holy cow! What’s a fifty grand monkey do?” The shopkeeper sighed. “Actually, I’ve never seen him do anything except drink beer and play with his pecker, but his papers say he’s a pilot!”
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 11:58:38 +0000