Yuck, Yuck, Yuck

Evie, considering Mark's daring rescue plunge, suggested I post an account of my early airport days.
I was working at Lindberg Field for a private aircraft service company. During the summer we provided full ground service for many Marine Corps Reserve charter flights. In the middle of the night a Lockheed Constellation arrived. This was an old 4 engine piston-propeller sleek beauty with a classic triple vertical stabilizer tail. They were designed with very high ground clearance. My job was to service the lavatories and I had the "honey bucket", a tongue-in-cheek nickname for a very large malodorous trailer tank with a 4" flexible hose to connect to airliners' holding tanks. Since the Constellation was so long-legged I had to teeter atop the tank under the holding tank dump port, while rotating the hose connector into the locked position, then pull the dump lever and wait for the contents to rush down into the honey bucket, then reverse the process. Maybe I had to stretch too far, but when I pulled the dump lever the hose connector fell off and the entire load emptied upon my disbelieving head and shoulders before I could react. Needless to say I was sent home immediately. Fortunately it was about 1:00 AM and I could let myself into the garage for a stripdown laundry tub washdown before I slipped into the house for a long shower.
That old Connie wasn't done with me yet, though. After the flight was offloaded it was towed to a parking area and the main landing gear wheels chocked until it was time for the reservists to go home. After all the men were on board and their gear stowed in the baggage holds it was discovered that the wheels had squashed down on the chocks from the added weight and the chocks could not be jerked out. Solution: Station Monty under the fuselage and crank up the engines, then the pilots revs up the engines and the bird pushes forward enough to unload the rear chocks, Monty rushes under the inboard engines and jerks the rear chocks out, then jerks the front chocks after the plane rolls back. The first part worked. The rest of the plan did not, as I couldn't make my feet move until another worker was sent in to bring me out and finish the job.