Another apprentice came into work one Monday morning, looking very pissed off. As he approached you could see why. Drunk on the Friday night, he tried hot-knifing and misjudged how close the red-hot knives were to his bottom lip.
God knows what he told the bosses at work, but for anyone in the know, it was blatantly obvious what caused the forming scabs.
I was with him one day on another plant when one the older guys wanted to play a trick on him because he thought he was a bit too far up his own arse.
He had this contraption whereby when the guy blew into it really hard it went through a small pipe and it came back on itself to blow a small fan around. The guy’s face was going blue trying to get this to work which he managed to do.
So, they asked my mate if he thought he could do it. He says, “Fuckin’ no problem. Gie’s it here”. The guy was like, “You have to blow really hard”.
He fancied himself as a bit of a body builder so he says, “Aye, aye, no bother, watch this”. He gives it a big blow and POOF!! A big cloud of talcum powder goes all over his face. I nearly died.
You know that face people get where it’s like, ‘Ok, you got me’? Well, he had one of them, but the white powder accentuated his facial expression tenfold. It was a total classic.
Apparently, it was set up so that when the guy blew, he stuck his tongue in a small hole in the pipe which leads to the talcum powder section, so the air instead went towards the fan, and he pretended to blow hard.
If you don’t know about that hole, then you were fucked, as indeed he was. The apprentice was a bit of a blow hard, so it was a perfect match. I was just glad he was there or else no doubt I’d have ended up looking like Casper the Ghost.
Cheers!
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