Working in a coal mine - 8
We have arrived at the coal face, with the coal cutting disc ahead and on our left, slowly turning. Coal falls on to the conveyor belt, two guys are sorting it.
Singing has stopped as we arrive.
“They don’t want to distract you.” Phill said after talking to a guy who seemed to be in charge. “They want this damned transformer fixed, reliably. It stops at the most inconvenient times. Ruins their productivity.”
He was pointing at a green box about 1metre high, 1 metre wide and 1 metre thick.
I recognised it.
I knew what I had to do.
- Category: True Stories Told As Fiction
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Neville Hunt 9 months ago
Mr Fixit! Did you levy a call-down charge?
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Richard Hunt 9 months ago
Yes, many of my jobs were ‘Mr Fixit’. That’s why I called this series ‘Interesting Jobs’.
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Richard Hunt 9 months ago
But I have discovered a problem with the numbering of the series. This is job number 3, so I am going to call it that and just increment the drabble title … eg interesting jobs #3, working in a coal mine - 8. Do you think this will cause problems?
