FORGETFUL PLUMBER.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXXII, Issue 2769, 31 August 1931, Page 5

FORGETFUL PLUMBER.

INCIDENT AT ROTORUA. Plumbers are among ( the standing jokes of “Punch” and' other comic journals, but by this time they are, or ought to be, case-hardened. Perhaps they do forget the tools and have, to go back for them, perhaps a plumber bridegroom, as “Punch” once. ; depicted, did forget his mate, iust m he was about to put the ring on hie bride’s finger, and . delated the wedding while he went in search of him. But there are some things that plumbers very rarely forget, and surely ,- among them is the tim® to cease* . work. This distinction, however, can be claimed by a plumber engaged on the new Ward Baths at Rotorua, states an exchange. Absorbed m his job, he continued working beyond the knock-off time—perhaps he had forgotten his watch. At any rate, he kept on working oblivious'to everything but his job. Suddenly he heard sounds of water and shrieks of feminine laughter. Then he realised that it. . was the ladies’ hour for the bath, and his only way out was through the bath. He knocked on the door, timidly at first, then/louder and louder, ' but no notice was taken of the knocks, even if they could be heard above the . splashing, laughter arid commotion of the bathers. The knocking continued louder and louder. The attendant thought it time to investigate and went to the annex where the plumber had been working. There was some hoarse whispering through the keyhole, audible to the • bathers. Then their shrieks were pitched in the minor key. There was a man in the bath. Explanations were made, and the attendant, being a I resourceful person, met the difficulty of getting the plumber out by enveloping his head in a bath towel and so leading him blindfolded through the bevy of naked and splashing bathers out to the main door. The plumber may again forget many things,, but not that experience.