Did We Really Do That?

When Tim and I were about 15 years old we had a really great Maths teacher. I wont name names but she was not only a great maths teacher but she was a really kind person and extremely attractive. All the teenage boys, Tim and I included, suddenly took a very keen interest in mathematics!

We sat at the front of the class, as you do, right by this teacher’s desk. Being a fairly young and trendy teacher she was keen on the music of the time. One band that she was particularly fond of was INXS. We knew this because she had an INXS badge on her jacket.

During lesson we had with her, our teacher must have gotten a little bit warm and took her jacket off and put it on the desk. Shortly after, there was a raised hand from a classmate at the back and off she went to see what he wanted.

Staring at me was the INXS badge on the jacket... the gears started turning in my head.

Quick as a flash I grabbed the badge and made a few modifications. It now read "SEXINESS" which Tim and I thought was hilarious. I put the badge and the jacket back and we both speculated how long she would wander the corridors of the school before she noticed.

The answer was about 2 minutes. She hit the ROOF!

I got sent out of the class (AGAIN) and given a strong telling off and a final warning! Although the warning was issued with just the slightest hint of a smile!

Matt

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During a hot summer one year Tim and I decided that it would be really nice to have a barbeque at his parent’s house. We arranged for Tim’s family to join in.

In getting everything ready for said barbeque we established that the barbeque really wasn’t large enough to cook a meal adequate for all of us. We decided we needed something bigger. Much Bigger!

My father used to have an engineering company so we thought it would be a neat idea to head over to his factory and make our own barbeque that would be large enough for the job. Once there we each had different ideas as to what would be the ideal design. Rather than argue about it we agreed to make two BBQ’s.

We both had the same basic ideas but neither of us wishing to ‘make do’ with a basic or flimsy design we chose heavy gauge steel for the main part of the BBQ along with a heavy galvanised steel grill area plus a higher grill to keep food warm. The legs of each were made from steel tube, again in heavy gauge.

Once we had finished we both admired our work and set about clearing everything away.

The first issue was that both of he BBQ’s had been so well engineered that they were almost too heavy to carry. They had to be carried between us. The second problem was that when it was time to fire up the BBQ that evening each of the required more than one bag of charcoal to fill it!

The final insult came later that evening after we had consumed far too much food. The heat of the charcoal had been intense enough to make the zinc coating on the grill stick to the food. Not knowing this we had eaten the food anyway which lead to a nasty case of zinc poisoning. Lovely!

The barbeques lasted for years and performed very well – as long as you had enough charcoal!

Matt

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