"I know a railwayman of 40-odd years' service," says Juan Quar, "and he tells me a new gruesome yarn each time we meet. Last week's was of checking the time on the wristwatch of a severed arm he'd just collected after a track fatality."
Tell us the horrible stories you tease the new hires with, or that you've been told.
NB By definition, these are probably all made up. Roll with it
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:33)
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He told a story of a good friend of his who, at the end of a day thought 'I won't walk all the way around the trailer full of massive logs to unhitch it, I'll just squeeze myself through, stretch out my arm and see if I can do it from here'
He cut himself in half.
I say half, but it was more like 'head shoulders and an arm/pulverised midsection/pelvis and legs'
So thirds?
(, Sun 8 Sep 2013, 17:14, Reply)
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