Nice to be home .......

[Colchester Kev]

I had the tip of my left hand index finger chopped off.......  This happened while i was working as a manager for Coral bookmakers in Luton.    It was a few years ago, and to change the date on the tills, you had to open the side and manually move a cog...... well I dont exactly know how, but the till made a noise as if accepting a bet, and my finger got caught in between 2 cogs and ripped the top of my finger clean off just below the nail bed. At first it felt like i had hit my finger with a hammer, so when i pulled it out, i waved it about (you know the way you do when you have hit it with a hammer) only to look down and see that my once white shirt was decorated with a generous amount of claret. when my boys were younger i used to tell them that i did it while wrestling crocodiles in australia, or a shark bit it off while i was scuba diving off the barrier reef .... Unfortunately they now know the truth, and when anyone asks how it happened, they gleefully reply .....

"Dad got his fingers caught in the till when he worked at the bookies".

[AndrewT]

"G-g-g-g-getting your f-f-f-f-fingers c-c-caught in't till - t-t-tell me about it!"

[Colchester Kev]

LOL yes it did take a while for my workmates to stop calling me Granville.

[Trace]

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!  (and OUCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!)

Should be a delicate stomach warning on this thread -  I'm eating my sarnie......

[Rod Paradise]

"Dad got his fingers caught in the till when he worked at the bookies".

Ha Ha - bet you prefer that to your boy telling the story about you dressing in a wig & a skirt & getting him to take pictures of you