On 16/05/2019 18:30, ARW wrote:
A simple job. I left him in a pub car park to measure the length of two
fences for an outside socket.

30 minutes later he came into the pub (where I was fixing the CCTV and
not drinking) to tell me that his tape measure was not long enough.



It took him 30 minutes to unwind 3 or 5 metres of tape ??.


You should have given him a Stanley tape measure made for the
USA domestic market, and calibrated in Feet and Inches, just
for added amusement.