Not really one of my disasters but the chappie involved thought it was!!!
I work as a newsagent and happened to, yesterday, be doing a paper-round. I got to one house and as i pushed the paper through the letterbox, felt a bit of resistance. Assuming the end of the paper was merely caught on the insulating foam people like to put on their boxes, i gave it a gentle shove and the paper went thorugh with an almighty bang which was followed by the old chap who lived there running out and playing merry hell with me!!!
It turned out he was varnishing his new wooden hall floor and had reached the point behind the door. In order to stop things being pushed onto it, he taped the back of the letter box shut. Sadly the tape he used was sronger than the fittings (panel pins!!!) holding the letterbox to the door! As I pushed the paper in, it pushed the entire back of the letter box off the door and scratched his new floor. Also the paper landed on a varnished bit which had to be resanded and started again.
Now somehow, the whole problem was blamed on me and when i pointed out that there was no note ont he door saying DO NOT USE LETTERBOX or similar he said "Yes, but the paperboy doesn't normally get here for another 2 hours so i would have put one up by then!!!"
I walked away when he started trying to hit me!!! When i got back to the shop, he had rung my boss adn explained it all to him who was laughing his *ss off!!!!!
I work as a newsagent and happened to, yesterday, be doing a paper-round. I got to one house and as i pushed the paper through the letterbox, felt a bit of resistance. Assuming the end of the paper was merely caught on the insulating foam people like to put on their boxes, i gave it a gentle shove and the paper went thorugh with an almighty bang which was followed by the old chap who lived there running out and playing merry hell with me!!!
It turned out he was varnishing his new wooden hall floor and had reached the point behind the door. In order to stop things being pushed onto it, he taped the back of the letter box shut. Sadly the tape he used was sronger than the fittings (panel pins!!!) holding the letterbox to the door! As I pushed the paper in, it pushed the entire back of the letter box off the door and scratched his new floor. Also the paper landed on a varnished bit which had to be resanded and started again.
Now somehow, the whole problem was blamed on me and when i pointed out that there was no note ont he door saying DO NOT USE LETTERBOX or similar he said "Yes, but the paperboy doesn't normally get here for another 2 hours so i would have put one up by then!!!"
I walked away when he started trying to hit me!!! When i got back to the shop, he had rung my boss adn explained it all to him who was laughing his *ss off!!!!!
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