Ice Skating on the Roof

Posted on 4:45 PM by TaimoorShaikh

This is a Blast from the past to show everyone what it was like to work nights where I was at. I was working nights with a friend of mine and it was one of those rare real cold nights. We were bored as usual and had to entertain ourselves. So we came up with a crazy idea to play football on the roof of our work. Well Since it was the middle of the night we couldn't see the ball very well so it got dumb real fast, but while we were on the roof we came across a water hose. As you can imagine the lights in our 18 year old heads were going off.

Needless to say we started freezing the roof of our work. Within a few hours the roof was a winter wonderland. We called a few people to see if they wanted to go ice skating with us. But as most of them were with their family for the holidays so it was just the two of us. So we ice skated with our regular shoes on the roof for the rest of our shift, unaware out supervisor at the time was directly beneath us.

Luckily he never caught us, but asked us if we heard any strange noises on the roof over the radio. We said no, but we can go check it out. He told us "No, Never go on the roof for any reason!" As you could tell it was very hard to keep a straight tone on the radio. But as he left we went back to skating a little while longer and went home.

I think you have to have some fun in the workplace. Yeah looking back on it that was to far, but at the time we were only 18 and under the rule of a micromanaging maniac of a boss. More on that guy later.