- Contributed by听
- lanes_pop
- People in story:听
- Victor
- Location of story:听
- Barnard Castle
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A2208999
- Contributed on:听
- 17 January 2004
I was out on training one day at Barnard Castle,I was in the 54th R.A.C,I was learning to drive a 15cwt Morris open top lorry, it had two small glass windscreens,one for the driver and one for the co driver.I had a Sergeant sitting beside me with a Lance Corporal sitting between the Sergeant and myself,they were my instructors.We went right across country to somewhere near Penrith,over Cumberland.
I was driving along and was doing alrightwhen all of a sudden we had a cloud burst I had never seen anything like it in my life.The lorry being all open except for the two little windscreens didn't help,we all got soaked but the Sergeant said we had to keep going as we only had a certain amount of time to get there and back.
The rain went on for quite a while,we carried on until we got to the Y.M.C.A canteen.We were soaked through and went into the kitchen where I saw an oven and I said to the Sergeant and the Lance Corporal "give me your hats and I'll dry them out for you in the oven" so they gave me their hats and I put all three including mine in the oven and shut the door,i thought I'd give them five mins,then they would be dry.The only thing was though, I forgot about them.We all went out and had a cup of tea, when all of a sudden I remembered,I rushed back into the kitchen,where this girl was and said to her "I have left my hats in your oven" she said "they will be burnt up" I opened the oven door and I couldn't stop laughing,they hadn't burnt up but they had shrunk so small they looked like a replica of the real thing about 1 inch across.
I went to pick one up and it broke like a biscuit in my fingers,I gently picked up the remaining two hats and took them over to the table where the Sergeant and the Lance Corporal were sitting drinking their tea.I placed them on the table in front of them and I said I was very sorry but I forgot I had left them in the oven! The Sergeant wasn't very pleased but the Lance Corporal laughed when they touched them,they fell to bits,they were no bigger than a PENNY.
Anyway they both had to go to the stores to get theirselves another hat each but I had to buy my one.
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