One time I was working and an old Gulfstream G1 pulls in un-announced. I went out and directed them to park. The pilot started shutting things down and didn't set the brakes. The G1 started rolling backwards towards a fence and the pilot starts yelling to chock the wheels, chock the wheels!. I couldn't figure out why he didn't just use the brakes(maybe he didn't have any after he powered down). Anywho, there was a pile of chocks near the fence, so I grabbed THE BIG ONE(hey, it was a big plane, to me) and tossed it behind the left main gear. Plane stopped, tail dropped to within a few inches of the ground, nose wheel went skyward. Then it just sat there for a few seconds.... then went back down in front and bounced on the nose gear a few times. Pilot came out yelling and cursing at me. I told him to lump it and walked away. Then two limos pull up and a couple of young women dressed very party-like step out and walk up into the airplane. A few minutes later, they come back out escorting several members of the band YES. The guys are holding drinks and wiping the spills off their disco shirts with linen napkins. They had their Rod Stewart hair cuts, tight pants and big shoes and my mechanic and I were laughing so hard we were crying. After they left, the pilot appologized and said he had had a tough flight with some very picky passengers. We cleaned the interior of the plane for them and they gave us several unopened trays of catering food with meats, cheeses and shrimp, plus a cooler full of hot BBQ chicken that the band wouldn't touch. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
