19th June 2005, 12:23 PM
Right. Ha Ha. Havent admitted this one in public, rather embarrassing but Gumbo doing one of his first evals for particular unit was very happy that he had booked a mini-digger for only ?80 per day. Two trenches two days plenty of profit he thought, jobs a good-un. So, Gumbo turns up to field in middle of f****** nowhere as does said machine, unfortunately Gumbo had failed to ask whether cost of hire included the driver. It didnt.
Anyway in a unbelievably flukely blag, Gumbo managed to con machine deliverer into becoming a 'digger driver' for two days (in the broadest sense of the word), which although got the job done was lets say a little 'rustic' and meant the bloke had to close his hire shop for two days.
Word didnt get back to unit and Gumbo managed to persuade county that it really was too far and unimportant for him to come out to see...
Sorry.
Gumbo
Anyway in a unbelievably flukely blag, Gumbo managed to con machine deliverer into becoming a 'digger driver' for two days (in the broadest sense of the word), which although got the job done was lets say a little 'rustic' and meant the bloke had to close his hire shop for two days.
Word didnt get back to unit and Gumbo managed to persuade county that it really was too far and unimportant for him to come out to see...
Sorry.
Gumbo