Too late, she cried.. slightly off topic
Kaol's post reminded me of this..

One of my old mates, we should call Stu, (because it's his name, and I don't think he's in here)Who was happily working in a sheet-metal factory, making air conditioning tube thingies. This involved bending the sheets of sheet steel into interesting shapes.

One morning, Stu had arrived early, since there was overtime to be had. After an hour, other colleagues began to arrive, with a light dusting of snow. This set our hero thinking.. He slunk off with a small piece of sheet steel and set about making a sledge, of sorts. He bent up one of the narrow sides and punched two holes in it.He attached a bungie cord (sp?) by the hooks to the holes and set off through the snow onto the car park. Stu noticed then, that the factory was built on old railway sidings, and there was a tall embankment with the still running railway atop it at the far end of the car park. Stu took a heroic deep breath climbed the fence and scaled the embankment, where he positioned his shiny sledge, leaped aboard and hurtled down the near vertical slope.

The next thing he knew he was in the trauma ward at the infirmary, plastered from hip to toe, badly concussed, and being alternately harangued and laughed at by his wife and friends, me included..

He was back at work three months later, and getting on as badly with the boss as ever. I was staying at their house for a while and so, when his colleague pulled up on the front I called his wife to let him in, with an assortment of tools etc. We then found out, that Stu, three days into his comeback had punched the boss's lights out, and was currently under arrest at the city's police station. He ended up with a moderately sized fine, Stu later worked this out at £15 a punch and was therefore happy..

He then chucked in work and went to college, then University. He now has a Phd. In Nuclear Physics...

*edited for crap bits, and how I was reminded in the first place..
(Beer Elf Thought this was like a campfire, anyhow, on, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 11:05, Reply)