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It all started when I was building pre-fabbed homes. I worked on a plumbing crew and later the electricians crew, man were there some crazy folks there. We always dicked around With eachother from shooting plumbers putty and wire nuts at each other from flex pipe to crapping your pants in a room and asking someone to come in there because you needed them to fix something. There was a cat walk above for the roofing guys and we would snipe each other from there. There are really too many things to tell you all of them.
We had a supervisor who was always pushing the envelope if you catch my drift!. I was helping one of my crew members place a tub when I heard a yell and some swearing! He was so loud that everything stopped and we were all looking. That is pretty amazing considering this huge building with 200 some workers shutting off their saws, compressors, nailguns ,all the hammering and what not. I hear I swear to god I'll smack that (insert expletive here) thing, if you don't get out here! Here the supervisor who is always messing around found a hole in the wall and decided to let the "little supervisor" check out the work! The worker did not see "him" so he said HEY, Buddy to get his attention! We heard the story after lunch and it was all we laughed about for a week! We also started doing the funny stuff from the movie Waiting!
So we stared yelling Hey, Buddy all the time at work then running and hidding so they did not know it was you. We even started impersonating each others voices to get the other people in trouble! Well it was around this time I needed some fittings for a vent and drain. I asked my one of my crew to go get it and he came back with a box. I asked him to hand them over and he said "dude, check out this box!" I was like, what are you talking about? He goes come on man, check it out! You won't believe what I have in here! I was getting the fittings and I heard a noise. I looked over and saw a squirrel in the stock room! I grabbed a box and cornered it! I gave him a couple nuts from my lunch box and I think he is tame! I say , no way you didn't catch a squirrel! Those damn things are fast! He insures me yes he in fact did and says well if you don't believe me just look! I open the box and well guess what I seen. He goes "ah man he must have escaped but look he left his nuts behind!". I can't believe I fell for it!
The following weekend I was at the fire station and talking with a bunch of the guys after a call and we just finished repacking some 5" and cleaning up the trucks. I go "I'll be right back" they go upstairs and I come up a few minutes later...with a box... and tell them I caught a squirrel! They fell for it too! So I got the nickname "Boffa" later changed to Bopha as in Bopha Mynuts.