New guy today, my age roughly. Showed up at 8:30, by the end of the day I knew his life story.
Spent the day with a rented stumper with 19 hours on it. A smaller unit, worked good. Got it stuck atop a stump this time, don't recall ever doing that before. I dunno, the lever that makes it roll kept messing with me. It was labeled REV for making it go in the direction of the cutting wheel, to me, that's forward.
Was done stumpin a 3, was going to stop to gas it up but the new guy said he had to go get his kid because the school called and said they wouldn't let the kid on the bus because he was fighting. So I didn't stop but drove home and paid the new guy, told him I was going to drop off the stumper then come back and take out the chipper so he starts a whole nother conversation about the mold in his house.
Trying to make time I forgot to gas the stumper so I got banged 5 bucks a gallon by the rental agency which really isn't a bad deal considering the time I would have had to spend waiting for people to get of their phone and pump gas plus having to listen to the advertisments being blasted at me by the TV's they have on top of the pumps makes me angry.