[myself248]

Some years back, there was a "can't happen" problem with a telephone switch, such that the problem had "contaminated" the running databases on both processor cards, and the system was no longer capable of recovering itself. It needed a new card, and it needed it yesterday.

The manufacturer scrambled it down to the local airport, where they bought it a passenger ticket on the next plane out. While it was in the air, they arranged for an express courier in the destination city to pick it up from the airport and break the speed limit all the way to the phone office. Whereupon the driver asked the recipient which driveway to use because "the one that looks like the main entrance doesn't look like it's meant for truck traffic".

Truck? What?

Evidently the courier service heard the declared value of the shipment and just assumed it must be enormous, so they sent a semi. This enormous truck had picked it up and had been hurtling down the road, empty, with a pizza-box-sized parcel on the floor of the cab, where it would be safer.

[lovehashbrowns]

It’s hilarious because as I was reading your story, I assumed the exact same thing. I was picturing how they got some giant telephone switch on a flight and imagined a giant machine on the window seat.

I would’ve been part of the chain that got a semi out to deliver it.

[uuyi]

I’ve been that guy. I hired a long wheelbase van here and ended up driving 6x DIMMs in a box on the front seat.

[indrora]

Better to be over prepared than under prepared.

plus, you look official like that.