Codgers Close

[doit4u]

I have suggested to the neighbours that we ought to rename our cul-de-sac "Codgers Close" as I have now 'officially' retired {you may have seen my recent thread Reluctantly Retiring} their is only one person left with a proper job as a Learning Support Assisitant in a local school.

We have the following retirees:-

BT gang forman and a nurse

Petrol pump engineer and a council clerical worker,

Fancy goods shopkeeper and professional organist and harp player

Police fire arms officer

Dairy farmer

Pharmacist and a nurse

Tailor

My dad who is along retired building surveyor and my boss who was a secretary.

So can you all please keep working hard to make sure we can carry on living our life of luxury.

 

[Dan]

lol - I like it.

So basically if something out of the ordinary happened in your street you're pretty well prepared. The copper could shoot 'em, the nurses and pharmacist could tend to injured, the BT gang forman can use the box at the end of the street to call somebody for help, your old man can judge whether what's happened is going to cause any of the houses to fall down, the petrol pump engineer can make sure all the vehicles are filled ready for the emergency get away, the organist and harp player can provide some tunage like on the titanic to keep people calm, the dairy farmer can sort out some food and milk, the tailer can repair clothes worn by battle, and the secretary and council clerical worker can write down everything whats happening and pretend to actually do something more important.

That just leaves you. What you tiling during this war? lol

I'd call the street 'Well Prepared Avenue'.

 

[doit4u]

An interesting take on things. What could I do in this situation?

Well I am an ex lot of things over my 50 years of work. Starting at 13 part-time in a motor spares shop. I have been {some of them part-time or temporary} aglass collector/washer up in a ballroom, a barman, van, taxi & lorry driver, door to door salesman for burgler alarms, department store shop assistant, tractor driver on a dairy farm, BT network planning engineer, in the army {Bristish Forces Postal & Courier Service}, a stage manager, a film projectionist, a caretaker in an OAP home as well as a self employed handyman who did a bit of tiling.

So any suggestions of what the best role would be for me to play if disaster struck our street.

 

[Dan]

You could deliver parts to the vehicles if the petrol pump engineer clocked something was missing. But you could also just look busy with the clerk and secretary, if your dad did clock something amiss with the buildings perhaps you could handy-man the problem, failing that you could always collect the empty glasses of milk the farmer provided, then rush door to door making sure people are all out of their unsafe-war-zone-houses, pretty sure if you had a camera you could film it? That way you can clearly point out once it is all over that the clerk and secretary hardly wrote down anything that was going on to prove they weren't actually doing anything. And if the BT guy needed a bit of network planning then you could always give him a piggy back to the box at the end of the road and lend a hand there. You could also be the get away driver as I know both couriers and taxi drivers have heavy right feet. But should you need to, and if one is about, you could stick all the survivors in a lorry and exit 'Well Prepared Avenue' safely but not going over 56mph. The fact you've been a caretaker in a OAP's home means you'll be used to moaning and groaning from the injured. If the musician can play soothing tunes at the same time you'll have it handled.

How's that for a role that meets your sporadic job description? haha

 

[doit4u]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Entertainment Officer to keep the troops morale up!

 

[paul damian]

You seem to be a rounded person doit4u.

 

[doug boardley]

An interesting take on things. What could I do in this situation?

Well I am an ex lot of things over my 50 years of work. Starting at 13 part-time in a motor spares shop. I have been {some of them part-time or temporary} aglass collector/washer up in a ballroom, a barman, van, taxi & lorry driver, door to door salesman for burgler alarms, department store shop assistant, tractor driver on a dairy farm, BT network planning engineer, in the army {Bristish Forces Postal & Courier Service}, a stage manager, a film projectionist, a caretaker in an OAP home as well as a self employed handyman who did a bit of tiling.

So any suggestions of what the best role would be for me to play if disaster struck our street.

collector of pensions come funeral director:lol:

 

[doit4u]

You seem to be a rounded person doit4u.

Has my daughter been talking to you? She commented on the weekend that my belly was bigger than her bum.

 

[Dan]

You'll have to show us her bum before we can say I think.

 

[doit4u]

Can't help you there, but there is a picture of her on a really hot day using a whacker on the base for her patio. She has all the safety gear on - wellies, helmet, goggles, ear defenders, not sure if the bikini counts though.