:)
I did that when I was 6 years old and lived in a little Lincolnshire village called Market Stainton. (Mapmaker will know it)
I had walked across the village green to the village shop to get my comic and on the way back there was a drain cover removed by the council mowing machine.
It seemed ages that I was down there shouting before anyone heard me and when they did, no-one could reach me.
Someone fetched a long handled broom and I was curtly told to grip the end tightly while they pulled me back up again.
I did smell a bit when I got out!
....and a second time, I was at the Birds Eye canning factory in Lowestoft delivering a load of fresh garden peas in the middle of the night (field to frozen within 6 hours is true)
Three of us drivers were waiting to be tipped as they had broken down in the factory when we saw a boat with lights on going by and decided to walk to the waters edge to have a better look. I was in the middle and nattering away in the dark.
According to them, the next minute I had gone!
A slurry drain cover had been left off and I was in it with just my head showing and two lorry drivers standing looking convulsed in laughter:)
Grazed knees and boobs and absolutely covered in slurry.
I miss those times....
Pat
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