Littlecub wrote:I'll watch WX and negotiate with "Powers that BE".........
In other words, I'll try.
lc
Let me help you Cliff. This always worked in the fire dept.
Cliff: Hi boss I'm sick can't work, put me on sick leave so I get paid.

Boss: I'm sorry to hear you don't feel well. I will see you Monday, get well Cliff.
Cliff: Hey boss you want to fly to lunch with my BCP buddies.
Boss: Yes. You know Cliff, I have been thinking you need a raise.
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Try this one on the wife.
Pilot leaves the house about 10:30 a.m. to do some work and run some errands. On the way out the door he answered his wife's "what time will you be home?" question with "probably about 1:30, I'll have lunch at Wendy's"
1:30 came & went, 3:00 passed, at about 6:00 pm he rolls in the driveway, and begins the apologetic story:
“I finished the errands about 11:30, had lunch, and I started home, when alongside the road I saw this attractive girl with a flat tire on her car. I stopped to help and got the tire changed. I strained my back a little too.
She offered money, but I refused, so she suggested that I at least allow her to buy me a beer, that it might help my back. She said there's a tavern just up the road. I agreed to stop, we had a beer, then another beer, then a couple more, and I realized that this girl was not only pretty, she was very very friendly.
Before I knew it, she was giving me a back rub in the hot tub at the motel next door. And that is why I am so late getting home.”
His wife looked him right in the eye and said "Don't lie to me; you went flying, didn’t you?”
Good day