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if there was a works canteen I'd be eating there...
Gawd..I've just remembered...
..I was at work one bank holiday.. production dairy..there was always workers in..always a canteen...
People had just started queuing up for breakfast and booommph..the power goes out..so the muttering started..heavy lifting jobs..they start getting hangry...
...boys and their bellies...So the fitters are called..after 30 minutes humming and haaing..and not getting anywhere..the baiting of the fitters starts..
..Then boomph..the power goes off on the whole site...and the fitters literally run out the door...coz every line in the factory has gone off..and they've got a hostile crowd in the canteen...
..gone....Not only have they gone..but every line shut down...
..so everyone in the factory comes over to the canteen..to add their two cents to the general grump a thon..And..the canteen staff are getting defensive coz everyone who comes in asks the same stupid question...
...So..we arranged for one of the van drivers to go out with a big order to our nearest transport cafes...every other sani shop option is closed..coz it's a bank holiday..
It had the same power outage we had...they were there..but they couldn't cook anyway...
..So I phoned home told hubby I'd probably be home late...was the power on at home..yeah..see you later gotta run...
So I walk back into the canteen... I've got the workers threatening a walk out because they are getting really hungry now..the canteen staff threatening to not cook even if the power comes on because of the heckling they are getting..fitters hiding in the factory coz they know it is a power outage..nowt they can do..so why take the heckling...and a driver out trying to find food..any food.. anywhere...
And a tannoy message comes..can mossy please come to the gatehouse...so I shot round to the gatehouse...and here's hubby standing with the most humongous Greggs stottie filled with bacon and egg.. wrapped in tinfoil to keep it warm for me.....
...I nearly got ruddy lynched when I went in the canteen and opened the tin foil and the smell come out...
...but..me and me brother were happy...I gave him half...
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