A mate of mine-he's a clever bloke on an intellectual level but he has absolutely no practical skills; simple DIY tasks, putting up a deckchair, etc. are all beyond his capabilities.
Anyway, he was working up in Newcastle a few years ago and staying at a flat up there. He invited me and some friends up for a weekend to go out on 'the toon' (It's a great place to go out on the lash by the way, you should all try it sometime), but he made the fatal mistake of going to work the next morning and leaving us to clear the flat up before we left.
We decided it would be good fun to move every last bit of furniture in the place and carefully cram it into the kitchen - sofas, beds, tables, the lot. It took five of us about an hour to do, but by the time we'd finished there was not a single cubic centimetre of space left in the kitchen and not so much as a coat-hanger left in any other room in the flat.
When the poor lad eventually calmed down enough to speak to us again (about a month later) he admitted that it had taken him until 1am on sunday morning to get everything back where it should be again.
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Anyway, he was working up in Newcastle a few years ago and staying at a flat up there. He invited me and some friends up for a weekend to go out on 'the toon' (It's a great place to go out on the lash by the way, you should all try it sometime), but he made the fatal mistake of going to work the next morning and leaving us to clear the flat up before we left.
We decided it would be good fun to move every last bit of furniture in the place and carefully cram it into the kitchen - sofas, beds, tables, the lot. It took five of us about an hour to do, but by the time we'd finished there was not a single cubic centimetre of space left in the kitchen and not so much as a coat-hanger left in any other room in the flat.
When the poor lad eventually calmed down enough to speak to us again (about a month later) he admitted that it had taken him until 1am on sunday morning to get everything back where it should be again.