A group of builders I worked with once had a big guy with an even bigger moustache, like a cross between Dick Strawbridge and Super Mario. We'll call him Bob. Bob was a kindly jovial sort of bug fella that would get on and do just about anything but was a bit quick to get stuck in.
Anyway, the story goes that they were called to a blocked drain in a 2 storey house that had had a lean to extension built on the back of the house. The loo was completely backed up upstairs. They rodded it and rodded it but they were unable to shift the blockage, whatever they did, it was stuck solid. So they decided to dig down within the extension to the pipe below and see if they could get closer to it to shift it.
Well, no sooner had Bob exposed the drain pipe than he hit it with his club hammer to break into it. What Bob didn't realise was that he was on the wet side of the blockage as he was immediately engulfed in water of varying colours and content from head to foot!! It also covered the inside of the extension!!
The others decided the best thing for Bob was to go home so they took him…
…standing in the tipper bed of their transit tipper holding on to the ladder rail.
Mrs Bob was not impressed. She stood Bob on the front lawn and hosed him off with the garden hose while making him strip his clothes off to his underpants before she would let him anywhere near the house.
Poor Bob…