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Post by Humph on Nov 24, 2016 17:13:22 GMT
As I'm more or less totally deaf in my left ear ( long story and ancient history involving a gas explosion ) I'd feel slightly cheated at having to buy a pair of headphones. A headphone would suit me very well.
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Post by Hofmeister on Nov 24, 2016 17:15:28 GMT
As I'm more or less totally deaf in my left ear ( long story and ancient history involving a gas explosion ) I'd feel slightly cheated at having to buy a pair of headphones. A headphone would suit me very well. this explosion? your fault? |
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Post by Humph on Nov 24, 2016 17:17:34 GMT
No thank goodness. Lot of people were killed. I was one of the "lucky" ones.
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Post by Hofmeister on Nov 24, 2016 17:53:36 GMT
No thank goodness. Lot of people were killed. I was one of the "lucky" ones. Ah, godamn, I had humorous visions of pre teen experiments gone bad in the kitchen. |
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Post by Humph on Nov 24, 2016 18:12:51 GMT
No, I was staying in a hotel in Aberdeen when it went up. I was in the first floor restaurant having breakfast at the time and fell through two floors into the basement in the middle of a fireball. Luckily a rug/carpet sort of wrapped itself around me as I fell and in doing so protected me a bit from the fall and the flames. Managed to scramble out through a hole in a blast damaged wall with my clothes and hair alight barely seconds before that part of the building collapsed. I can still hear the screams of those who couldn't get out to this day. Lost the hearing in my left ear and had some burns which did heal in time. Kept picking random shards of glass out of bits of me for months afterwards. My car was badly damaged in the car park. Roman bronze Cortina GL it was.
Google "Royal Darroch Hotel explosion" if you're interested.
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Post by Hofmeister on Nov 24, 2016 18:16:59 GMT
So, had you been wearing Bose noise cancelling headphones, your hearing would have been saved. I cant think of a finer testimonial.
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Post by Humph on Nov 24, 2016 18:24:35 GMT
Pardon?
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Post by Hofmeister on Nov 24, 2016 19:15:59 GMT
I SAID, - Oh never mind, bloody foreigners.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2016 19:30:25 GMT
Damn, I've got some pretty good stories of disaster and narrow escape, but that one's got me beat.
As I said, damn.
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Post by Humph on Nov 24, 2016 19:43:23 GMT
About quarter to eight I think.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2016 20:11:53 GMT
Damn, I've got some pretty good stories of disaster and narrow escape, but that one's got me beat. As I said, damn. I think I can beat it. My Cortina GL had custard yellow paintwork with brown velour and fake wood interior. |
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Post by Humph on Nov 24, 2016 20:13:32 GMT
Yep, you get the coconut Kevin ! 😉
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2016 20:14:43 GMT
By the way Humph, what were you having for breakfast? Was it much of a loss?
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Post by Humph on Nov 24, 2016 20:26:33 GMT
Full monty. At first I thought it was the beans, because I went up before I came down. It was as if my chair was being lifted by a giant. Pretty grim at the time joking aside. I used that hotel a lot back then. Knew the staff, some of whom didn't make it including a young female receptionist who died alongside me in the ambulance on the way to hospital. Long time ago though, 1983 I think. Life goes on and the world keeps turning. Just wasn't my turn I guess.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2016 21:40:03 GMT
How long before life took on some semblance of normal? Difficult thoughts for a long time, I should think. The one or two shocking things I've experienced I ultimately dealt with by blocking out. Well, that and pretending to the whole world that I was fine and wasn't bothered.
Fake it 'till you make it. Worked for me.
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