And so I pestered them actually, I didn't think I'd have the nerve but once again I couldn't dare say anything about my heart. This was also verified by the fact when I worked at the previous place, there was a chap there who'd had a heart attack and had been in to have a heart bypass, and I was talking to the foreman one day and he was looking at me, and he'd often confided in me because I was a very good boy [laughs]. In other words, I kept my mouth shut and I got on with my work. And so he thought I was a friend of his, and he turned round and said, 'Our money-boy there has been inside'. (You see that's my reference to being in hospital, being 'inside'.) So anyway he said, 'I'll tell you what, if you want a fact, he's got a bad heart, I'd get rid of him'. 'Is that right?' 'Yes' he said, 'Well he's a lame duck isn't he?'
And there he was talking to somebody with severe heart failure who was his hardest grafter! And he kind of, I wanted to have a go at him you know because I'm not one for sort of standing back when something needs to be said, and then so when I went for this other interview I had this in mind, don't you dare mention having a heart failure.
So I got the job as an inspector and I went and it was basically an inspector, lovely job, you just looked at something, compared it with a drawing and said yes or no. |
