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Feb. 13th, 2009 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanHere's hoping for a quiet, injury-free & only-slightly-damp day.
In the latest of a long line of mishaps at Debtor's Prison, yesterday I had to take our truckie to Manly Hospital A&E after he fell off the back of the truck. No real extenuating circumstances ~ the truck was virtually empty, he wasn't carrying anything, wasn't on the phone or otherwise distracted, he just walked backwards off a 1.5m gap between floor & ground, hit his head on a concrete wall & fractured two fingers trying to break his fall. I didn't see it happen, having turned away to get the next thing we were to load, but I heard the landing. Fortunately his neck & back were intact, so there were just some grazes & a rapidly swelling right hand to deal with. Out with the First Aid kit & then into OBluV8 for the trip to Casualty.
No chance of brain injury, as there's no evidence of anything but vacant space in the allotted cavity. Is it cynical & uncaring of me to admit that my first thought, after ascertaining he wasn't paralysed was So it's true what they say about dodgy goods... they 'fall off the back of a truck'.
In other news, I attended my first trivia quiz in quite a while last night. We didn't win...
In the latest of a long line of mishaps at Debtor's Prison, yesterday I had to take our truckie to Manly Hospital A&E after he fell off the back of the truck. No real extenuating circumstances ~ the truck was virtually empty, he wasn't carrying anything, wasn't on the phone or otherwise distracted, he just walked backwards off a 1.5m gap between floor & ground, hit his head on a concrete wall & fractured two fingers trying to break his fall. I didn't see it happen, having turned away to get the next thing we were to load, but I heard the landing. Fortunately his neck & back were intact, so there were just some grazes & a rapidly swelling right hand to deal with. Out with the First Aid kit & then into OBluV8 for the trip to Casualty.
No chance of brain injury, as there's no evidence of anything but vacant space in the allotted cavity. Is it cynical & uncaring of me to admit that my first thought, after ascertaining he wasn't paralysed was So it's true what they say about dodgy goods... they 'fall off the back of a truck'.
In other news, I attended my first trivia quiz in quite a while last night. We didn't win...
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Date: 2009-02-13 04:57 am (UTC)*snort* You're terrible. But at least you checked first about the paralysis. My first thought when told by the Clueless American Lady that she'd been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer was "Well, that's a fittingly tragic end to your oh so dramatic autobiography."
So who has less of a heart? Eh? Eh?!
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Date: 2009-02-13 05:18 am (UTC)I'm not heartless, just pragmatic.
I do wish that Natural Selection would put in some overtime to catch up on what I see as one hell of a backlog though...