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Ivory Grear
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Ivory Lee
Grear
1954 - 2018
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What's in my hat?

I was headed to the grinding room to check on a conveyor belt that we had recently repaired. I was met at the door to the main building by an irate Ivory yelling about hard hats and gloves and snakes. Behind him about 20 or 30 feet away lay his hardhat and gloves. Evidently a stow away had caught a ride inside on one of the palets of sand or color he had been working on. He had set his hardhat down to put up his stuff and clock out. The 12 inch long rattle snake had taken advantage of this and crawled into his hat under his gloves.

I finally got him to calm down enough to tell me "They is a dang snake in my hard hat! I saw my gloves movin and I said to myself what's in my hat. Wesley, there is a #$@&! snake in my hat!" I gave him an, "Okay sure." look and stepped over to his hat and picked it up. and sure enough a baby rattle snake fell out.

"I laughed and looked back at him and asked, "Is this the snake your are screaming about Ivory?"

Taking two more steps back as he spoke, "Do you see any other @!#*&$% snakes in my hat?"

The little thing had curled up into a ball the size of a jack and jill doughnut,{very small} and I looked at Ivory and at the snake and lifeted my foot up and stepped on the little guy. "Is that better Ivory?" I bent down and picked up his gloves and carried them and his hardhat to him. "Dang Ivory right now my tan is better than your!" I said laughing.

"Dang it Wesley, it aint funny That thing was in my hat!" His language was better so he was fine.

I feel really bad about putting the giant wolf spider on his forklift now. Sorry Ivory.

Posted by Wesley Shankles
Saturday May 26, 2018 at 1:45 am
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