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8th March 2018, 08:48 PM
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Re: this was not taught on mechanics course
Sometimes to ask out the craziness of work I would nip around the road to the next Business Park and spend a cup of tea coffee etc from the free machine any electrical wholesalers . There was a very frustrated NHS electrician in there one day who is buying waterproof sockets an awful lot of them in St James's Hospital which used to have people with mental issues every electrical socket on one floor has been urinated on one of the Patience worked out that he got a nice little tingle just before the 30 milliamp circuit breaker tripped because of a fault so they had to replace 20 something sockets because every time they're reset the circuit breaker and cleaned out the socket he did it to another one
Rob Page R855150 - British & Commonwealth Shipping ( 1965 - 1973 ) Gulf Oil -( 1973 - 1975 ) Sealink ( 1975 - 1986 ) 

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