I Didnt Sign Up For This

[nailit]

Started (voluntary) work at the local food bank distribution centre on Monday.
Went in today expecting a quiet day marking up and packing food for the delivery van. Got a day when a major food supplier sent a lorry load of pallets to be unloaded.
Wasn't expecting for a pallet of tinned fish to fall off the back of the lorry and having to sweep up a load of sardines off the road and pick up tins of fish.
I smelt like an aquarium when Id finished.....
Still do now after a bath....
Ah well! all in a good cause I suppose....

Anyone find the smell of fish a turnoff? Because I reek of it!!
Why couldn't it have been biscuits or something??

[Patsy33]

Thought you were changing your tuna -bout this voluntary job! Well done Nailit.

[sanmac]

OK, thanks. It's too bad that all that food was lost. Anyway, I'm glad that you are enjoying the job.

[Peter Pedant]

you mean this week when they call you 'smelly' - they might have a point?

( Nailit for you I have turned my 'subtlety' dial down to zero )

[Bazile]

Well there you go

[Mamyalynne]

All those tins to be washed for recycling too - what a day there - but well done Nailit.x

[nailit]

//I'm guessing that they were ring-pull cans, rather than traditional ones. If so, they only need a slight knock for the seals on the ring pulls to fracture//
Don't know what they were but I stink of fish Chris...
I smell like a brothel on overtime...

[anneasquith]

Good for you . :-)

[sanmac]

A fish-broth(el):)

[Tilly2]

Lemon juice is good for getting rid of the smell of fish. Cut a lemon in half and rub it on your hands.

[Buenchico]

I can think of various odours I might associate with a brothel, Nailit, but fish isn't one of them!

[nailit]

Donaters, please no more fish....
Its the likes of me that have to deal with it.

On a more serious note, Ive found out that foodbanks are seriously short of Tampons and ladies sanitary ware, pet food, and toiletries in general.

[rowanwitch]

I think you'd better be careful, you might have a lot of new furry purry friends

[nailit]

We might of visited different Brothels Chris!!! ;-)

[Peter Pedant]

yeah I was gonna say
wrong kind of brothel chris

[DocHH]

Nailit, it is not until you get involved with charity work, particularly on a voluntary basis that you realise how much other people are reliant on the simple things that we take for granted.

I help run a small local charity, on a voluntary basis, and get great satisfaction from the feed-back from those who we set out to help.

More power to your elbow, I hope you find your involvement with the charity rewarding, despite this minor hic-cup.

[Jackdaw33]

A good job Mrs Slocombe wasn't around. Her pussy would have gone into overdrive.

[douglas9401]

On the plus side you have the beginnings of a fish stock in the bath.

[1ozzy]

Fishing for sympathy ;-/