DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
Another one was being sent to the stores to ask for a long weight (wait).Just like on work experience at a local Ford dealership, one particular wag thought it would be funny to send me to stores for some "spark plug gaps", so off I went and told the storeman what was going on and can I have the screw on tops from some spark plugs, I'll bring them back when the pranks over, so I went back and said I've got them, but stores aren't happy opening the boxes for them, here's your spark plug caps, they didn't try it on for the remaining three weeks funnily enough.
Definitely a ‘thing’. I think that Billy Connolly describes it in one of his ship building anecdotes.Another one was being sent to the stores to ask for a long weight (wait).
Talking of sparks, often used to get one in the eye, and sometimes off to casualty to get it removed. First though, a fella in the workshop would have a go, he'd sit you down in a chair and tilt your head back, then roll your eyelid back on a matchstick, and if he could see the crud he'd fetch it out with the tip of his tongue - I kid you not. I suspect with modern health and safety this procedure is no longer allowed.