What a week!

This week was quite an exiting one. It started with an accident just outside our office. A motor cyclist was hit by a car when making a right turn. Despite the fact that the hit must have caused a loud noise I didn't hear anything, but ran out of the office after seeing the crashed bike on the street. Everything I had learned in the First Aid Course rushed through my head. When I arrived at the scene I could see that the cyclist was lying in the street holding is leg that was apparently broken. He was surrounded by people and someone apparently had called an ambulance. So apart from reassuring him that help would be there soon there was no need for First Aid.

On Thursday we had a heavily drunken tramp who was also shouting at passers-by on our door step. We had to call the police. Once there they questioned him, but he was not really in the state to answer them. Then they tried to remove him from the steps. That didn't work either. By the time I left they managed to move him from the step to the pavement. After all.

Friday promised to be very busy as I had to hand in a report. Around lunchtime someone was due in to fix the electricity problem in the office. Too make a long story short, we ended up with an electrician who was furious when I had told that we cannot pay him by cheque as agreed before as the signatory had to leave because of an emergency. Ok, I did not deliver what was agreed. But, hey, what would you do if someone calls you in to fix a problem and you had agreed on a immediate payment after fulfillment? And knowing that the other option, i.e. invoicing your customer (not an unusual thing to do anyway, is it?) would bring you 100 quid more? Right, tell him you have to add that amount to the invoice, get your worksheet signed, leave and report to your boss. Well, he did all that in the end, but not without making a major fuss about our agreement, my responsibility and even our morality.