Monday, July 26, 2010

Ranlee Johnson

This post is dedicated to my dear friend, Ranlee Johnson. I work with him up at This Is The Place. He is such a great man. He's in his 70's, I believe, and he is a hoot! We occasionally work on the train together because he usually works at the entrance gate to the park. When we're on the train together its such a fun time.

Here's some examples of how great he is:

1-Today he was driving while I was giving the tour & 3/4 thru the tour he asked for the microphone. I handed him the microphone & he's like "in honor of all the swedish people out there I will now speak 30 seconds on swedish" then he proceeded to speak what I thought was swedish. Afterwards I'm like "so Randlee what did you say?" He's like, "I spoke a whole lot of nothing, that's what. I'm just so bored out of my mind." hahahaha who does that?!

2-A few weeks ago Ranlee told me to drive the train (yes I'm learning how to drive the train) down to the parking lot & he'd come pick me up & take me back to the village so I could clock out. So I did. Then on the ride back up I was drinking out of my water bottle that has a bigger mouth piece & right as I was drinking Ranlee accidently popped his clutch. Talk about refreshing. the water went down the front of me. I proceeded to laugh & cough at the same time because the water went down the wrong tube. This experience is now our inside joke & that is...no drinking & driving.

3-Then the very best story I can use to illustrate how wonderful this old man is, is by the type of music he listens to. He is a huge classical fan. You name it, Bach, Beethoven, etc. WELL...he told me today that there's one song that he can't listen to while he's driving because it gives him road rage. haha. He played it for me today & I about lost it. I've attached a link to give you an idea to the kind of music that causes my dear friend, Ranlee Johnson, road rage. enjoy :)


Anyways, there's just a fraction of stories I have had with this funny, sweet old man. Life is so great, especially when you meet people like Ranlee.

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