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.... Slept in, an hour late to pick up the "mate" (not a good start).

Later on showing him how to put up some door coach lights and drilling from the outside, this happened:-

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Whoops :rofl:

Within an hour this happened:-

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Yep,,,, that is my right leg hanging through the ceiling of the living room! I was looking up at the light fittings and not looking where I was walking! Think I may have to slip the plasterer a couple of quid to sort it out lol :rofl:


Enough is enough so we packed up and quit at 3pm. Tomorrow is another day :smile:
 
Monday and Tuesday I was working in London replacing emergency lights. The delivery was one fitting short so I picked one up from the wholesaler Tuesday morning and duly jumped on the train with the fitting in a carrier bag.
Naturally by the time I had got to the job I wasn't carrying the carrier bag, that was still happily sitting on the train, probably on its way down to Portsmouth by then.

And of course this happened just to wind me up.
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You Dozy Pirrock... :smartass2: Paul....

Done the angle drill through a frame but never gone through a ceiling YET!
 
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You Dozy Pirrock... :smartass2: Paul....

Done the angle drill through a frame but never gone through a ceiling YET!

Put my backside through a ceiling once when I was younger! In a loft clipping cables and thought it was a good idea to use a plank of wood to sit on in-between the rafters..... Plank of wood broke in the middle, my arse is now in the spare bedroom, posh customer going frantic. Trip to the local DIY store, bought stuff, fixed stuff, customer gave me a £20 tip!!!!

I'll never forget this moment... my 501 jeans protruding from the kids bedroom!!! Thank God the kid was at school at the time :rofl:
 
One of my best moments was drilling into a wall for fixings and pushing a bit hard and going through the wall, and then the enormous old painting hanging on the other side!
 
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Monday and Tuesday I was working in London replacing emergency lights. The delivery was one fitting short so I picked one up from the wholesaler Tuesday morning and duly jumped on the train with the fitting in a carrier bag.
Naturally by the time I had got to the job I wasn't carrying the carrier bag, that was still happily sitting on the train, probably on its way down to Portsmouth by then.


And of course this happened just to wind me up.
502067f1adeb184b75a1f9590cb433e6.jpg

I'm gonna estimate it took you a stack of a dozen washers to make up that gap :p
 
One of my best moments was drilling into a wall for fixings and pushing a bit hard and going through the wall, and then the enormous old painting hanging on the other side!


Here is one for you all....

Company owner and head spark says "drill here, I've marked it up for you for the 2 x SWA to the outside...... chop chop, time is pushing on so just do it". SO I DID.... 2 x 25mm holes,,, but I cant see day light????? Strange, lets have a look where my drill bit has ended up....... ONLY IN THE CONTROL ROOM OF A POLICE STATION!!!!! Now that took a bit of explaining :rofl:

S**t happens, it how you deal with it that counts.
 

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