Just rung me mate to get someone's else's number. After giving it to me he said, "Anyway, I'll have to go cos I'm a bit wet." "Sorry mate," says I, "did I get you out of the shower?" "No," he says, "I've just fallen in t'canal." His garden backs onto it and he's been fitting some decking to extend over it. Some young 'uns pulled him out. I wouldn't have been able to do it for laughing.
In a similar vein..... We were once putting up some fencing on Woolley top when the boss of the construction firm we worked for came along, ranting and raving as usual. You could hear him from the moment he got out of his car 100 yards away.... Anyway; 20 yards from us he disappeared!! He'd fallen down a a large pond which had a 20ft drop with about 5ft of orange 'ocker' in it. After the initial outburst of laughing we all pulled him out with a length of rope but...... as his head appeared he was still ranting and raving and orange faced and most of the lads burst out laughing. So much so, we let go ofv the rope and off he went again..... into the ocker!
