On Friday 18 January 2013 13:38 whisky-dave wrote in uk.d-i-y:

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The last apprentice to go was a bad time keeper. One morning he phoned in
to say his Mium's car would not start due to a flat battery. Now I was
already on the way to my first job when he phoned in and I was passing
this house on the way to the job. I got a call off the boss asking if I
had a set of jump leads on the van (I have) and so was told to call at
the apprentices house to jump start his mothers car or find out if he was
lying about the battery.

Less than 2 minutes after phoning in to say the car battery was flat I
was on the driveway with my jump leads. The apprentice was still in his
dressing gown and his mother was still in bed.

So did you jump start them ;-)


Was that so hard ^^^ ?

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