Bob Davis
Bob Davis
Where did us who were about to Do our National Service go for the medical where you walked from cubicle to cubicle?..cough, bend over, stand on one leg, touch your toes close you eyes and touch your nose.....you are fit A1, Army, Navy or Royal Air Force? Uuuh Air F...., Army then for you. The day I was there I followed a young lad from the Black Country, we got to the doctor (they were all old) who looked at legs and feet and he looked at the lads legs and said'funny knees, what job do you do old chap? I'm nailing. Oh you are a carpenter?.......he looked at the lads knees again. They were very flat. The lad said no I'm nailing...this conversation went on for at least 10 minutes as we all stood there in our 1950s underpants, the victims were piling up in this cubicle and in the next cubicle we kept hearing a plaintive next or are we finished. Eventually the doctor said but if you are nailing you must be in a wood connected trade. The boy exasperated said in a very loud blackcountry voice, no I mek chains and I'm nailing in front of a b...?y fernice (furnace), all day long. He was signed off as medically unfit. However where was this?
Bob
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