New job, 1st Xmas party, Oh dear.........
Shortly after starting a new job where my older bother had pulled a few strings to get me on board, I was invited to a private party held by a member of his department. My bother was a senior manager and ranked above most that attended from our work, I was supposed to be on my best behaviour as it was by way of introducing me to his colleagues. The night went well and I got to meet everyone, played silly party games and impressed the females in attendance by lighting a real fire in the fireplace to warm the place up a bit. The host had received a massive Scalextric set, which was up and running in one of the adjoining ground floor rooms of the house. The party ran into the night and all were welcome to sleep over wherever they dropped. I recall thinking it would be a good idea to crash-out by the fire for warmth and was awoken in the early hours by a rather annoying beep? Every thirty seconds it went off and there was no way of getting back to sleep. So I investigated and discovered it was coming from the next room. The room was almost bear except for the Scalextric layout and the noise was louder. I stumbled around in the darkness and unplugged the transformer, but still the noise wouldn’t stop. I was also bursting for a pee at this point and with my electrical background I knew water could cause a short circuit…
…so there I was pissing all over this guy’s new present as his girlfriend flicked the light switch on and caught me in the act (and it was one of those unstoppable boozed-up police horse type urinations that I couldn’t stem!) …oh dear.
Due to the remoteness of the location, leaving the scene wasn’t an option so I had to suffer the indignity of my total embarrassment the following morning as everyone was informed of my night-time activity. You can imagine my brother’s reaction as we hurriedly made our exit, although my then sister-in-law thought it was very funny.
The story went round the office like wildfire afterwards and I still get reminded of it each Christmas, though the party invites have stopped?!! I found out later that it was someone’s mobile phone beeping away behind a curtain in the same room, just a missed call alert.
(minky, Sun 24 Dec 2006, 11:15, Reply)