My Dad used to own his own shop
He'd take work experience lads from the local high schools.

Obviously he would use this to wind them up mercilessly, including filling out their work experience diaries for them and sending them for the obligatory long weights.

One day he retreats to the rear of the shop and emerges with a two foot wide, three foot high box. He is visibly struggling to carry the box and him being quite a large man it certainly seems as though it is heavy.

He places it on the counter and asks the work experience boy to take it to the post office and get it weighed and sent to a certain supplier.

"Be careful though, it's really heavy"

The lad sizes up the box and lifts with all of his might...........

The box flies in the air with hundreds of tiny pieces of packing foam coating the area like Christmas snow.

The lad had to rewrite his diary incidentally, the school found it hard to believe he had made over 400 cups of tea in just one week.
(Dangerous Disco Trev Isn't my real name, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 1:57, Reply)