With Apologies to the Walt Disney Company
November 3, 2011 4 Comments
The following is respectfully dedicated to all those men and woman of the Footplate who are sliding about the network with, to quote a friend of mine, “your arse puckering in your pants, your toes digging into your boots and your stomach trying to climb up your neck to throttle your brains.” Despite anything the travelling public believes, this is no joke. Hopefully this post may raise a smile.
The Song of the South-(ern Region)
“Slippety-Doo-Dah Day? That’s the kind of day where you can’t put them ‘ole brakes on without that ‘ole speedo going straight to zero.”
Slippety-doo-dah, slippety-ay,
‘Cos of leaves we ain’t stoppin’ today
There’s a bloody great red light in my way
My arse has just healed up and my hair has gone grey.
There are SPAD-stains in my boxers.
It’s the truth, it’s actual
(Let’s hope that DAZ-ads are really factual)
Slippety-doo-dah, slippety-ay
Having a desk job makes sense for today.
For those of you who don’t know how the tune is supposed to go, by the way, CLICKY HERE.
About driverpotter
Eithe chop the buggers down, and replace with pines, or re-introduce steam traction, or better still – both!
On second thoughts, was it both last year, and the year before that:
1] A SWT unit, with a driver-under-instruction slid right through a set of points …somewhere ? (Effingham Jn? / Virginai Water?
2] A SE one slid over 2 miles near Stonegate on the Hastings line.
Time to re-instate ‘Prize Lengths’ I say……
http://www.raib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cfm?file=/111117_R182011_Stonegate.pdf
For the RAIB report on similar underpant-changing experiences!