After I got the news, I went to back the plant to tell the guys that I would be their new apprentice. When I got there one of the other apprentices wanted to show me a trick in the mess room, before I got to the control room.
He stood in front of me with two cups. One empty and one full of water. He poured all the water from the full cup into the empty cup and then motioned as if to throw the now full cup of water directly in my face.
Understandably, I almost shat myself and ducked to avoid the water but amazingly it didn’t come out. I should have been drenched but instead when I looked in the cup, the water had turned to solid mush.
He had put powder in the bottom of the empty cup and that had made the water congeal. You could now turn the full cup upside down and still none would have come out.
‘Wow. What a trick. That was brilliant. I must do this to one of my new team members’, I thought. I went to the control room where Dave happened to be walking out. I said, “Let me show you a trick”, and poured the water from one cup to the powder cup and threw it in Dave’s direction. Whoosh … all over his face.
My mate didn’t tell me that I had to wait for at least two seconds until the water congealed before I threw it. Then it did start to congeal, mainly on his eyebrows and moustache. He looked like Jack Nickolson at the end of The Shining. He looked at me and quite calmly said, “I think I’m going to kill someone”.
I was like, “Eh, sorry about that. By the way, I’m gonna be your new apprentice ….. I hope we can work well together. Assuming you don’t file a report to get me sacked”.
I was in obvious remorse at what had transpired but my mate was pissing himself laughing and so Dave turned his anger in his direction …. much to my relief. I wasn’t too happy with him either after he neglected to tell me the most important aspect of the trick, so was quite glad he got Dave’s full wrath
Cheers!
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