Re: FN-FORUM: Lunch (OT)

date posted 28th January 2005 19:12

On Friday 28 Jan 2005 8:03 pm, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On 28 Jan 2005 17:49:55 -0000, Dom Latter [EMAIL REMOVED] wrot=
e:
> >I digress. There was one guy there who never seemed to actually do an=
y
> >work, and whose main role seemed to be being some sort of court jester=
=2E
>
> My mother used to work for the Gas Board. When she was there, there wa=
s an
> inspection by some sort of auditors, and they discovered four blokes in=
a
> back room, playing cards. They all had sandwich boxes and flasks, and =
were
> rapidly approaching retirement age.
>
> They were the department whose job it was to maintain the gas streetlig=
hts-
> apparently, everyone had forgotten about them when their manager died j=
ust
> after the last gaslights were de-commissioned. =20

Great story! =20

It does, , have some of the attributes of an urban myth, though.#

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