Fellow Knights and Knightess's my pride was seriously damaged today.
If you promise not to laugh I will continue;
In my line of work I had to visit a new building site to check out ground conditions and to prepare for Risk assessments and method statements. After the initial meeting in the site office we had to walk the site so I set off behind the groundworker's foreman
Now, cutting accross the site my legs suddendly stopped....... they would not move....... I could go no where...... my welly's were sinking with me in them!!! The more I moved the deeper I was going so I took a deep breath and stopped the ground worker is now crying with laughter he offered me his hand to pull me out, man I thought he was going to seperate my legs from my body, no good I was going nowhere so as he lets go I duly fall over, There is now a crowd of fellow workmen congregating and really enjoying them selves at my expense. My right boot is now well over half way stuck and my left one is fully submerged in wet clay silt. The foreman signals to the digger driver to assist and all I could see was this 20+ Ton plus earth moving machine coming towards me with a massive bucket on the front ,Now, I'm thinking I hope he isnt going to try and Scoop me out.
But he puts the bucket down beside me and i manage to get my right leg free using it as leverage, but the left one was still going no where, and the laughter on site was getting even louder.
In the end I had to leave the welly in the ground and pull my foot out, now standing in the bucket on one leg, the foreman has composed himself enough to try and retreave my welly, now it was my turn to laugh as he grabbed the top of my welly and was wiggling it around like a rag doll, he did get it out after about 2 minutes though.
The risk assessment will read "WE WILL NOT BE ON SITE UNTIL THE ROAD IS IN PLACE"