A few posts back I berated Renny for trying to impersonate Inspector Clouseu with his misadventures at the Don Valley Stadium. This time it is my turn. Whilst attending the Corus Family Funday at Redcar, I realised that one of our vehicles was short on fuel, so I borrowed Arthurs Transit van to nip to Morrisons garage for a drum of diesel. As I pulled upto the pump and applied the footbrake it happened something like this;
A load bang was followed by an almighty hissing and my entire world become white, For a split second my mind flashed to all of those reports of near death experiences where people saw a white light as they "died". Before I had time to panic I started to choke and couldn't breath so I opened the drivers door and fell out of the van. As I lay there panting an almighty cloud of white powder erupted form the drivers door opening and proceeded to cover everything, Morrisons shop, all of the cars in the garage the people filling theirs up and everything else in sight. Then I realised what had happened. Arthur had a big dry powder fire extinguisher in the back, I know because I moved it when I placed the empty diesel drum in the back. As I braked this had fallen over and went off!
As the extinguisher fizzled out, I retrieved my drum from the back, filled it and went inside to pay for the fuel. The entire shop erupted in laughter at my appearance, (jet white from head to toe) and my explanation as to what had happened. Climbing into the van I surveyed a scene of devastation, everything from floor to ceiling was covered in a thick layer of powder, I couldn't see out of the windscreen and the dashboard was totally obscured. I pulled up to ring Arthur,and tried to explain between bouts of laughter as to what I had done. Arthurs wife Lisa passed the garage on the way home and reported that the floor had a giant white splat covering it with a transit van sized clear patch in the middle.
A load bang was followed by an almighty hissing and my entire world become white, For a split second my mind flashed to all of those reports of near death experiences where people saw a white light as they "died". Before I had time to panic I started to choke and couldn't breath so I opened the drivers door and fell out of the van. As I lay there panting an almighty cloud of white powder erupted form the drivers door opening and proceeded to cover everything, Morrisons shop, all of the cars in the garage the people filling theirs up and everything else in sight. Then I realised what had happened. Arthur had a big dry powder fire extinguisher in the back, I know because I moved it when I placed the empty diesel drum in the back. As I braked this had fallen over and went off!
As the extinguisher fizzled out, I retrieved my drum from the back, filled it and went inside to pay for the fuel. The entire shop erupted in laughter at my appearance, (jet white from head to toe) and my explanation as to what had happened. Climbing into the van I surveyed a scene of devastation, everything from floor to ceiling was covered in a thick layer of powder, I couldn't see out of the windscreen and the dashboard was totally obscured. I pulled up to ring Arthur,and tried to explain between bouts of laughter as to what I had done. Arthurs wife Lisa passed the garage on the way home and reported that the floor had a giant white splat covering it with a transit van sized clear patch in the middle.