>> I wouldn't actually let anyone do that to me !
The geezer had his back turned of course, and the workmate acted on foolish impulse. No harm was intended, but harm was done.
>> Was your father in some erm, unusual line of work?
Not very unusual, but had responsibility for all sorts of carpenters, engineers and mechanics. He was a naval weapons man as I'm sure I have said before. A civilian though, never wore uniform although he had some equivalent rank, commander or captain.
I can remember stacks of 16" shells in underground stores, with their copper driving bands (to squeeze into the rifling inside the gun barrels)... they were already obsolete, to my 10-year-old disappointment, and were being taken out to sea in batches and dumped in deep places. Big guns were already being replaced by missiles of various sorts.
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