I Didnt Sign Up For This

[nailit]

Started (voluntary) work at the local food bank distribution centre on Monday.
Went in today expecting a quiet day marking up and packing food for the delivery van. Got a day when a major food supplier sent a lorry load of pallets to be unloaded.
Wasn't expecting for a pallet of tinned fish to fall off the back of the lorry and having to sweep up a load of sardines off the road and pick up tins of fish.
I smelt like an aquarium when Id finished.....
Still do now after a bath....
Ah well! all in a good cause I suppose....

Anyone find the smell of fish a turnoff? Because I reek of it!!
Why couldn't it have been biscuits or something??

[Mamyalynne]

What a damn shame, glad no one was hurt by it, things never smell nice when you didn't make the decision to get covered in them.

[Buenchico]

Quick, folks. Get down to the Dog and Ferret straight away. There's this guy in there, called Nailit, who's got a load of cheap sardines which he swears fell of the back of a lorry. Mind you, I reckon his story is rather fishy ;-)

[fiction-factory]

I wouldn't worry- the smell is only superfishoil

[fiction-factory]

I think more people should do what you are doing. Good on you.

[Mamyalynne]

Groannnnnnnnn

[Buenchico]

LOL @ F-F!
(I wish I'd thought of that one!)

[Bazile]

So how did the fish come out of the tins and unto the
road ?

[marval]

Oh dear, what a shame Nailit.

Keep up the good work though, you are making a valuable contribution.

[nailit]

//So how did the fish come out of the tins and unto the
road ?//

Err, it fell from a height.

[sanmac]

Nailit, you mean the cans actually split open?

[david small]

Nailit, are you a U Kipper?

[Tilly2]

All that Omega 3 will do your skin the world of good. :-)

Brilliant answer from FF!

[Tilly2]

You should have borrowed a cat from somewhere, to eat up all the fish.

[nailit]

//Nailit, you mean the cans actually split open? //
yes, that was the gest of it.
Most were wrapped in cling film but falling of the back of a lorry (a few foot) tends to have the effect of splitting some tins open.

[aelmpvw]

ironic really, i can never get the lids off those damn tins

[Buenchico]

I'm guessing that they were ring-pull cans, rather than traditional ones. If so, they only need a slight knock for the seals on the ring pulls to fracture.