one embarrassed husband!

April 3, 2010 at 5:13 pm Leave a comment

Oh yes … I am married to a man who is in charge of Health & Safety on a multi-million pound building site but who, in a moment of madness decided to try and pull out a branch that had got stuck in a wood-chipping machine. Thankfully he turned it off before he inadvisedly put his arm inside but what he hadn’t realised was that the internal workings would think it necessary to tighten around his arm making an escape impossible!!!!!

After a moment of grim realisation, he began to shout! Unfortunately the only person within earshot was one of the builders who are currently doing our extension thereby making it unlikely that the embarrassing disaster would remain “in the family”! “How much will you pay me to not turn the machine on” was the initial response … which under different circumstances might have raised a smile! This was swiftly followed by a lot of huffing and puffing as the builder tried to work out how to release him. The reluctant conclusion was that it might have to be a fire brigade job … even more embarrassing! Thankfully he eventually worked out how to bring the situation to an end … albeit millimetre by millimetre!

One very relieved husband later confessed to the incident … thankfully still in one piece but more than ever so slightly mortified