This is a series of amusing ?? articles about a mythical character called the Mad Operator. As they say at Ripleys's " Believe it or Not".

The Mad operator had a really hard night. His camels had kept him awake ( When you sleep with snoring camels it doesn't help with how you feel or smell in the morning even if it does keep you warm.) Those camels were warm but not as warm as he had been after another unhappy customer had put a bomb in his truck and left him in hospital for 3 months.

He found a tap to have a wash and give the camels a drink but was not impressed when the customer kept stepping away from him when he found them to ask them where he could run his camels. His hearing was pretty bad after the explosion and he couldn't hear the customers gasping reply from 10metres. He finally got an answer from the dumbfounded customer and saddled up the camels. Well he finally got the camels saddled up and he worked for about 3 hours of the 4 hour job when suddenly one of the camels keeled over and dropped dead. This was problem. What do you do with a dead camel in the middle of a school oval when you still have an hour to work
and you must finish the job.

It's not a problem when you have a solution sitting in your truck. Just cover the animal with a blanket and tell the kids he is having a little snooze. After all camels smell bad alive or dead and the flies swarming around the carcase weren't that bad. Well our operator had finished his 4 hours but the fete wasn't yet finished and he wanted to get paid and go home .He couldn't just leave a dead camel in the oval but with two other camels in the trailer he couldn't fit it in lying down. In fact it was too heavy to move. Not a problem at all when you just picked up a chainsaw at the white elephant stall. After a bit of fiddling around he finally got the chainsaw going and it made the Texas Chainsaw Massacre look like a tea party.

Our blood stained operator finally got the sawn up camel into the truck much to the distress of the remaining camels and anyone else in the vicinity but he had still not been paid even though he had been up to see the organiser 3 times during the day about getting the cash. He didn't like cheques because for some reason he hadn't figured out customers kept cancelling them.
Well, there on the stage was that stupid principal that had not paid him thanking all those stupid volunteers and ignoring the waving arms of our blood spattered hero and his shouting from the back that he wanted to be paid right now. The principal shouted back that he would see him in ten minutes but that wasn't good enough for our hero who wanted payment to be paid now. After large and upset father's threatened to knock his block off he managed to shut up till after the ceremony he retreated to the office to get paid.

The committee all came in and told him he was a disgrace, but they paid him in full and told him to never call back. And he still wonders what he did wrong and why he never seems to get jobs back the next year.