Post by Dave on May 21, 2013 15:29:25 GMT
I was talking with the owner of Dartmouth hire and he always talk about Torquay United. But just as some threads on a forum end up off topic, what we ended up talking about was something we sure did not start talking about.
I’m not really sure how it got to where it ended up but I found myself telling him a story of an event that happened to me in a previous job that still makes me laugh when ever I remember it.
It was about nine years ago and I was doing some driving for a health care company and I did enjoy it while it lasted as one day I might be at Lands End and then another day driving through the Ronda Valley. I think of all the companies I have ever driven for, this one covered the largest area of the south of England and Wales and this story relates to a sort of secure care home just outside Bristol.
It was not an easy place to find as there was no sign to it and the road down to it off the main road was so easy to just drive past and in the end I had to ask in the local shop where exactly it was. Once I found the drive to the home I drove down it and I guess it was about three quarters of a mile to the gates of the home and I pressed the intercom button and told them who I was and then the gates opened by magic.
This story is about the same very old lady and what happened on two separate occasions I delivered to the home and it’s the second event that still makes me laugh my head off.
But first I’ll tell you what happened the very first time I came across her, well I had finished taking everything into the home and got my paperwork signed and was back out side and sitting in my van. A quick check on a map to see where I was heading next and then I started the engine.
I selected first gear and more by habit than need I checked in my right -hand mirror and as I did I just managed to spot the end of someone’s shoe sticking up just in front of my right hand front wheel. I turned off the engine and jumped out to check and I was sure I had not moved the van and so could not have run anyone over.
There she was laying in front of both my front wheels and when I spoke to her she started shouting at me” get back in the van and drive over me I want to die” I told her I could not do that and she was going mental and shouting even louder that she wanted to die and I had to drive over her.
I rung the homes front door bell and what a job we had trying to move her and she was kicking out and trying to bite us and this lady was 85 years old but I’ll tell you what she sure had plenty of fight still left I her. In the end we did get her moved and back safely inside the home and I drove off shaking a bit as I had come so close to running over her.
A few months later I found myself on that same run again and this time was able to just drive to the home as I had remembered where it was from the last time. I was inside the home and noticed the care worker had some nasty marks and scratches on her. So I asked her how she got them and then she pointed to the very same lady I had nearly run over and said she had done it to her.
The old lady moved closer to me and I asked her in a light hearted sort of voice why she had done that to someone who was working so hard to look after her and care for her.
“Do you know who my dad was” she asked me, I told her I had no idea and she then told me he was a famous professional boxer in the 1930’s
“He taught me everything I know and he taught me how to box as well” she replied back to me. Then there I was on the floor with a cut on my cheek as she had planted a right hook straight into my face, I’ll tell you what she sure could hit very hard for such an old lady.
She had to be grabbed hold of by the staff and she wanted to take another swing at me as I was getting up off the floor. When I got back into my van and drove off my face was hurting but I laughed all day as I had been put on my back with a right hook from an 85 year old woman.
So what bizarre or strange events have happened to you during your working day?
I’m not really sure how it got to where it ended up but I found myself telling him a story of an event that happened to me in a previous job that still makes me laugh when ever I remember it.
It was about nine years ago and I was doing some driving for a health care company and I did enjoy it while it lasted as one day I might be at Lands End and then another day driving through the Ronda Valley. I think of all the companies I have ever driven for, this one covered the largest area of the south of England and Wales and this story relates to a sort of secure care home just outside Bristol.
It was not an easy place to find as there was no sign to it and the road down to it off the main road was so easy to just drive past and in the end I had to ask in the local shop where exactly it was. Once I found the drive to the home I drove down it and I guess it was about three quarters of a mile to the gates of the home and I pressed the intercom button and told them who I was and then the gates opened by magic.
This story is about the same very old lady and what happened on two separate occasions I delivered to the home and it’s the second event that still makes me laugh my head off.
But first I’ll tell you what happened the very first time I came across her, well I had finished taking everything into the home and got my paperwork signed and was back out side and sitting in my van. A quick check on a map to see where I was heading next and then I started the engine.
I selected first gear and more by habit than need I checked in my right -hand mirror and as I did I just managed to spot the end of someone’s shoe sticking up just in front of my right hand front wheel. I turned off the engine and jumped out to check and I was sure I had not moved the van and so could not have run anyone over.
There she was laying in front of both my front wheels and when I spoke to her she started shouting at me” get back in the van and drive over me I want to die” I told her I could not do that and she was going mental and shouting even louder that she wanted to die and I had to drive over her.
I rung the homes front door bell and what a job we had trying to move her and she was kicking out and trying to bite us and this lady was 85 years old but I’ll tell you what she sure had plenty of fight still left I her. In the end we did get her moved and back safely inside the home and I drove off shaking a bit as I had come so close to running over her.
A few months later I found myself on that same run again and this time was able to just drive to the home as I had remembered where it was from the last time. I was inside the home and noticed the care worker had some nasty marks and scratches on her. So I asked her how she got them and then she pointed to the very same lady I had nearly run over and said she had done it to her.
The old lady moved closer to me and I asked her in a light hearted sort of voice why she had done that to someone who was working so hard to look after her and care for her.
“Do you know who my dad was” she asked me, I told her I had no idea and she then told me he was a famous professional boxer in the 1930’s
“He taught me everything I know and he taught me how to box as well” she replied back to me. Then there I was on the floor with a cut on my cheek as she had planted a right hook straight into my face, I’ll tell you what she sure could hit very hard for such an old lady.
She had to be grabbed hold of by the staff and she wanted to take another swing at me as I was getting up off the floor. When I got back into my van and drove off my face was hurting but I laughed all day as I had been put on my back with a right hook from an 85 year old woman.
So what bizarre or strange events have happened to you during your working day?