Good morning folks
Interesting start to the day. On my way to work this morning I turned into a lane I use every day only to be confronted by a huge oak tree right across the road. Being the public spirited person I am, I called the local police number - answerphone, so I tried the district command number - answer phone. Eventually I called 999 (equivalent of 911 in the US) and spoke to the emergency operator.
I explained that a huge oak had come down across a very narrow country lane used by many vehicles and that it was on a blind bend.
I was told that it wasn't an emergency and that the police would not be responding!
I excplained that it wasn't an emergency at that moment but as soon as people started to head for work, all bleary eyed and in a rush that it was entirely likely that there would be several multi car pile ups for the plod to deal with.
Their response! "you can stay there and direct traffic" I responded that I accepted their verbal confirmation that they would be paying me £500 per hour of my time for doing their job and that as all emergency calls are recorded there was an official record of the operator giving me permission to charge the police force that sum of money. Strangely enough, after about a 10 second blank spot in the conversation I heard the dulcit tiones of a police car racing to my location! Go figure.
Anyway, it is suppsed to be a very hot week this week so I am cracking on with my chores
) so I can get all the hot work done before the sun makes it impossible to breath lol.
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