The long weight

  This past week Penske hired a young kid to help with tear down and cleaning cars.  With every new person, especially the younger guys, there is always some kind of trick or prank played.  Last week the new kid fell for the oldest one in the book, the long weight.  I can't laugh to much because i fell for the same one and a lot more when i started.  Here's how it went down.  The kid was working in tear down Thursday afternoon about 2 hours before quiting time.  He was told to go down to the 2 car and ask for a long weight.  So following orders, ol boy went down and asked one of the guys on the team where the long weight was.  This is the kind of trick where you don't have to specify who to ask for because everyone in racing knows this trick and just plays along with it.  So the guy on the 2 car sends him down the shop to the 12.  He then again asks where he can find the long weight.  So the guys ask him how long the weight is and all the other bull &^^%$ that goes along with it.  So finally they send him around the shop a few times asking every department.  He finally gets back to one of the departments and they tell him to go ask our GM because he keeps all the long weights up in his office.  Dam if the kid didn't go slap up to the GM's office and ask for the long weight.  So of course the GM sent him back into the shop looking for it.  He finally figured out what was happening when everyone started leaving the shop after work.  He had spent the whole afternoon waiting a long time for nothing.  Lesson learned.