What's sloppy and loud?
I once arrived for a shift at work in a restaurant were a large number of my friends worked. We were always doing stupid stuff to amuse ourselves, but I unintentionally outdid myself one day.

Walking into the staffroom, which was quite busy, I started getting ready for work next to an iron and ironing board - there for sorting uniform out before a shift.

My mobile phone started ringing. I quickly glanced at the plug of the iron - unplugged. So, "hilariously", I answered the iron instead.

Feeling searing heat on my face, I'd forgotten to consider the possibility that someone *might* have been using the iron before I walked into the room and then unplugged it - as we were supposed to. Apparently I screamed like girl. One who was having her face burnt off, presumably.

It was fortunately not hot enough to do leave me looking like Simon Weston, so I didn't require medical attention, but just hot enough to leave an angry red square, complete with steam holes, across the side of my face for a good few days.

I'd love to say my colleagues came up with a witty and cutting nickname for me during this period of my life, but I was just referred to as "twat" until the mark had gone.
(Sloppy Giuseppe, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 13:36, 2 replies)

nickname...
Erm, Stevie Wonder?

/gone
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 21 Dec 2007, 14:13, closed)

:)
Helen Keller
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 20:26, closed)