# Mr. Sanitation Engineer driver.... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 16, 2005, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-sanitation-engineer-driver/331343 "2005-11-16T17:30:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-sanitation-engineer-driver/331343/1 "2005-11-16T17:30:14Z")
Mr. Sanitation Engineer truck driver (herinafter referred to as “garbage man”) TURN OFF YOUR FUCKING BACKUP ALARM ON YOUR SHITCARRIER TRUCK! IT’S BEEN TWEETING FOR A HALF A FUCKING HOUR AND IT’S DRIVING ME INSANE!! i’m trying to work here, and your piece of shit truck backup alarm is twittering away incessantly, put the fucking truck in _PARK_ before i go over there and _SMASH_ your backup alarm… either the noxious fumes from the diesel engine or the garbage are affecting your tiny, reptillian brain, or…you’re doing this to piss people off _deliberately_, there’s no reason to hear tweet.tweet.tweet.tweet…for more than a minute, put the shitbox in _PARK_ and shut the goddamn alarm off, otherwise i may have to start looking for a large, blunt object to smash against the alarm… hmm, large, blunt object, perhaps i could use your _skull_ it certainly fits the bill, it’s not like there’s anything in there anyway, or you’d realize the alarm is _fucking annoying_ here’s a hint for you, the purpose of the _BACKUP_ alarm is to alert clueless brats and other pedestrians that the vehicle is in _reverse_ so they don’t walk behind it and get flattened, it’s not to be used to piss people off… \ (ironically, the song that i have cranked in my headphones in an attempt to drown out the racket is **Bruce Cockburn’s “If I Had a Rocket Launcher”** , somehow appropriate, methinks) ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-sanitation-engineer-driver/331343/2 "2005-11-16T17:57:38Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > i’m trying to work here, and your piece of shit truck backup alarm is twittering away incessantly, put the fucking truck in _PARK_ Is he still in it? If he is, go tell him. If he’s not, chances are the door’s open and you can turn it off yourself. Go do it! (Unless he looks the type to smack you around and toss you in the back. Then don’t.) 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-sanitation-engineer-driver/331343/3 "2005-11-16T18:03:02Z")
Times like this I hope my next apartment comes with a street-facing window and a paintball gun.