Grumpy Old Men - again

[dkightley]

However my job as "Paper Delivery Expert" a.k.a Paperboy

An Anti-Womble!!!

[dggar]

Old Rocker wrote:-

'Media Distribution Operative' surely?

Have you been empowering yourself at those management studies meetings again

[codrivermike]

I just don't believe it. I went up into the loft today with the idea of sorting stuff out and making room for some more stuff I just can't bring myself to throw away. It's a job I've done hundreds of times before. You just make sure you put your feet on the joists............
Yep. I slipped. My knee went down and through I went. Lengthways!! The only thing that stopped me falling through onto and down the stairway was my hip and the side of my head hitting a joist. I was suspended, one arm through the hole and in mid air the other waving furiously above searching for something to grab and finding nothing. I managed to shove my hip up enough to gain some security and then I don't know how but I managed to get back up into the hole. It took ages to get back down. I just couldn't feel my legs on the ladder and god, did I need a beer.
That left a ragged hole about 4ft x 3ft that I eventually tidied up with the intention of going to B&Q tommorrow for the necessary bits. I cleaned up the plasterboard from the floor, vacuumed the dust and decided that the damned boxes still needed shifting.
I've only gone and done it again!!
I picked up a box, balanced, turned, put my foot on a joist and bang!!! I think my leg, bruised from earlier, gave way. Anyways I've a large hole in the bedroom ceiling now. The first was a true accident. One of those things. I've been up there so many times, just once something can go wrong. The second accident. I cannot understand it. Is it old age? Stupidity? Someone up there having a laugh? Or even the wife trying to claim on the insurance?
My ankle is twisted. My shoulder scraped. My back bruised and my neck cut. But do you know what hurts most of all? Even more than the thought that I'm going to have to fix it. It's pride. Pride sucks. Pride sniggers at you like a Health and Safety Officer telling you "I told you so" Well pride can go and get.......
I think I'll have another beer.

Michael (bruised, battered and a bit unhappy)

[oldrocker]

Reminds me of the Bill Bryson situation when the steps fall away leaving him dangling from the loft hatch by his elbows.

Despite shouting loudly, Mrs Bryson, who was in the house, could not be summoned.

Bill thought that strange as she could normally hear a blob of jam being dropped on the carpet from two rooms away!

[photons66]

Reminds me of the Bill Bryson situation when the steps fall away leaving him dangling from the loft hatch by his elbows.

Despite shouting loudly, Mrs Bryson, who was in the house, could not be summoned.

Bill thought that strange as she could normally hear a blob of jam being dropped on the carpet from two rooms away!

Gotta love Bill, ey oldrocker?

[dkightley]

My ankle is twisted. My shoulder scraped. My back bruised and my neck cut.

Just be thankful you didn't make two holes when you slipped! You might have only fell halfway through! It would have been a bit more than your pride dented:o

[Lad491]

But do you know what hurts most of all? Even more than the thought that I'm going to have to fix it. It's pride. Pride sucks. Pride sniggers at you like a Health and Safety Officer telling you "I told you so" Well pride can go and get.......

Im sorry, I really am Its my worst fear every time i venture forth into the attic. So im really, really sorry. But that gave me such a laugh im still giggling and chuckling to myself

Hope your better soon and the repairs are more straightforward, and thanks to owning up to it and making my day

[oldrocker]

Reminds me of the Bill Bryson situation when the steps fall away leaving him dangling from the loft hatch by his elbows.

Despite shouting loudly, Mrs Bryson, who was in the house, could not be summoned.

Bill thought that strange as she could normally hear a blob of jam being dropped on the carpet from two rooms away!

Gotta love Bill, ey oldrocker?

Read them, loved them !

I've had tears rolling down my cheeks more than once !

I particlarly love 'Made in America'.

The bit about closing the USA Patent Office in (I think) the 1890s because everything that could be invented had been invented is my favourite !

[dkightley]

Here you go, Mike.

This'll either cheer you up....or cause flashbacks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AM6898lUKU

[ianmacmillan]

Before you get the plasterboard get some chipboard loft flooring.

Why are you keeping jumk up there anyway?

Lofts are for model railways.

[Lad491]

Michael Crawford was the best

[Pyromaniac]

However my job as "Paper Delivery Expert" a.k.a Paperboy

'Media Distribution Operative' surely?

That i haven't heard before.

I'm going to use that and claim it as my own .

Mike, hope you recover soon. Falling through lofts hurt, i have done it myself, twice.

[johndibben]

My ankle is twisted. My shoulder scraped. My back bruised and my neck cut. But do you know what hurts most of all? Even more than the thought that I'm going to have to fix it. It's pride. Pride sucks. Pride sniggers at you like a Health and Safety Officer telling you "I told you so" Well pride can go and get.......
I think I'll have another beer.

Michael (bruised, battered and a bit unhappy)

Now we know you're why 'co' driver

I'd never do a thing like that. I'd not fit between the joists

[curate]

Michael Crawford was the best

At what, in particular?

I'd never do a thing like that. I'd not fit between the joists

Be that as it may, would you fit over one joist? There was a recent headline in the Shropshire Star that said
Man Loses Family Jewels in House Fire
...which sounds almost as uncomfortable to me.

Mike, ouch, my sympathies to you. If the ceiling concerned was your main bedroom, my double sympathies to you - I can imagine disapproval that hurts more than mere scrapes and sprains.

David

[allypally]

I was once helping a family friend clear his old house and move out for the new buyer to move in the next day.

Yep, he put his foot straight through the ceiling, the day before he was to hand the house over.

Required some very fast moving to get it repaired!

Personally, our own loft has got a wooden chipboard flooring as Ian suggested and we've never successfully put anything through it.