Chris Lingwood Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Yup...fell in not in the normal albeit embarrassing unpainful way. No no! I decided that I would slip while taking the gas tank off the boat. Managed to generally bash and scrape the skin off right left leg as it plummeted to its watery doom AND land on my left knee and groin on the jetty. Its a good job the tank wasn't full! I can't really walk now AND I've got a wet foot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Tut tut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Lingwood Posted November 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Tut tut. Indeed! Watch out kids...its a dangerous world! On the plus side I'm still bleeding! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Orentas Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Indeed! Watch out kids...its a dangerous world! On the plus side I'm still bleeding! Any photo's, video? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charles123 Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Yup...fell in not in the normal albeit embarrassing unpainful way. No no! I decided that I would slip while taking the gas tank off the boat. Managed to generally bash and scrape the skin off right left leg as it plummeted to its watery doom AND land on my left knee and groin on the jetty. Its a good job the tank wasn't full! I can't really walk now AND I've got a wet foot! Chris Sorry to hear this its so easily done, dents the old pride as well as the flesh! Charles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeELL Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Chris, are your jabs up-to-date tetanus etc. Worth thinking about if you immersed the cut leg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris-B Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Yup...fell in not in the normal albeit embarrassing unpainful way. No no! I decided that I would slip while taking the gas tank off the boat. Managed to generally bash and scrape the skin off right left leg as it plummeted to its watery doom AND land on my left knee and groin on the jetty. Its a good job the tank wasn't full! I can't really walk now AND I've got a wet foot! Look on the good side...at least you didn't have a bucket and chuckit in your hands ... ( Like one of my ex wives did once !!!!!.. I had to hose her down on the towpath before I would let her in the boat ! Chris B (Now with a pump out ! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsk Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Maffi may start to think you're after his Bottom Inspectors job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackrose Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Yup...fell in not in the normal albeit embarrassing unpainful way. No no! I decided that I would slip while taking the gas tank off the boat. Managed to generally bash and scrape the skin off right left leg as it plummeted to its watery doom AND land on my left knee and groin on the jetty. Its a good job the tank wasn't full! I can't really walk now AND I've got a wet foot! Did you slip on the boat or the pontoon? Our wooden pontoons are trecherous when wet & I've slipped a couple of times and fallen once (but not into the canal). BW have given us grit containers for use in the ice. It's a brand new marina & I'm sure the manufacturerers could have come up with a better non-slip surface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moley Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Like one of my ex wives did once !!!! Cuiusvis hominis est errare; nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare (Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris-B Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Cuiusvis hominis est errare; nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare (Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one) So much truth in that Moley !! Mind you I suppose when I saw the state she was in , bursting into fits of laughter was probably NOT the correct thing to do at the time....opps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DHutch Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 What a mess! - It is amazing how much slippyer the world gets with a light sprinking of water tho! ( assmue, as you in england, it was raining? ) I fell of my bike a few days ago when just going about my normal every run. Only that day it had rained, and on the smooth-troweled cement, i just slid sideways round the corner into the wall at about 20mph! DOH! Daniel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moley Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 It is amazing how much slippyer the world gets with a light sprinking of water tho! True. That, added to the duck sh*t on our pontoons, and it gets treacherous. I've not gone in yet though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet S Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 one of my ex wives One of how many, exactly? Janet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 I can sympathise. At least it wasn't on a trip boat that you had just helped to crew. Very embarrasing when that happens! Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoda Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 One of how many, exactly? Janet TYPICAL WOMENS QUESTION!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet S Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Oh don't be so sexist! It's just a typical nosy person's question! Janet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris-B Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 One of how many, exactly? Janet Oh just the pair Janet ! enough is enough My lawyer will ring me when he wants a new car !! Chris B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnOnTheWey Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Yup...fell in not in the normal albeit embarrassing unpainful way. No no! I decided that I would slip while taking the gas tank off the boat. Managed to generally bash and scrape the skin off right left leg as it plummeted to its watery doom AND land on my left knee and groin on the jetty. Its a good job the tank wasn't full! I can't really walk now AND I've got a wet foot! Condolences. I really dread the first time this happens to me (and I know it will); 12 feet of water under the boat at my mooring. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet S Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Oh just the pair Janet !enough is enough Once was quite enough for me. I suppose women learn from their mistakes quicker than men! Janet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Lingwood Posted November 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 The purveyor of my downfall was some green slime which had decided to set up camp right next to my stern on the jetty. It met high pressure doom shortly afterwards. You'll be pleased to know that it still hurts! And I've grazed my "inner thigh" which is at the very least displeasing I dread to think what it would feel like to land on a cleat! I should sue the marina for allowing...green stuff.....yeah! And Daniel you should sue for someone being negligent enough to put a wall any where near some concrete. The audacity of some people never fails to amaze me! *mutter mutter mutter...grumble grumble* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaggle Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 still laughing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DHutch Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Daniel you should sue for someone being negligent enough to put a wall any where near some concrete. The audacity of some people never fails to amaze me! Yeah, well im not sure about that, but certainly the bend near the liberay where there installing the new Combined-Heat-&-Power unit. - Theres clay/mud all over the tarmac from the trenches, and its acctally slippy as anything! I deffonatly feel a law suit coming on! Daniel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duchess Omnium Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Look on the good side...at least you didn't have a bucket and chuckit in your hands ... ( Like one of my ex wives did once !!!!!.. I had to hose her down on the towpath before I would let her in the boat ! Chris B (Now with a pump out ! ) I think we are getting an idea why she is an exwife... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellum Posted November 17, 2006 Report Share Posted November 17, 2006 Ouch! My partner did much the same a few weeks back - the ensuing groin strain meant that I had to lock-wheel all down the GU (fume!) I've been in twice but both times twenty years ago when I was working a hotel boat and butty, once when poling off a mud-flat from the roof and once for no good reason at all. E. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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