Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
Upon arriving at the plant first thing in the morning to unload my first and only load today. Right now Wednesdays is a one load day. I pulled up to the tank to see a liquid oxygen truck already there.
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He was parked crossways which was kind of odd, and he was not hooked up. I didn't know if he just got here or was leaving. I still have plenty of room to park next to my tank. Just as I parked, the driver walks up to me.
He was a middle-aged black man in boots and a black cowboy hat. He came up and I asked if he was going to off-load. He said he was going to refuse delivery because there was a beehive next to his valves. He said it was an unsafe delivery, and he would come back. He said he had other deliveries to make, and he could come back the next day.
I pointed out to him that both of his tanks were half full, and they had plenty of product for a while, and didn't need a delivery today. He agreed and also noticed that the nitrogen tanks had enough in them as well. So he walked to the office and told the bosses that he was going to refuse delivery.
When he left to do that I walked up slowly to take a picture of the beehive. I got to about 10 ft and four or five bee's flew around me to check me out. They are honey bees so they're not aggressive and stinging people. Unlike a wasp or yellow jacket. Honey bees just want to collect nectar to make their honey.
Just after he left Ronald came out. Ronald is one of the new bosses that was promoted from the maintenance crew. He didn't speak to me as he walked in the factory. About ten minutes later, Wiley Suttles, and someone else came out with spray bottles. They had bottles of wasp killer, and quickly killed the bees.
It was not a very large beehive, only about thirty or forty bee's were around. So the problem was quickly taken care of. Robert was with me and he told me that last year there was a beehive of about three-thousand bees, up on the roof of the factory! Well that was when they called a beekeeper to get them oot. Bees' are important and need to be saved whenever possible.
William James Roop
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