In the Navy for entertainment we'd send the boots all over the ship looking for sound powered phone batteries we'd send them to one shop asking for them, they were out and send them to another shop and so on. Everyone knew what was up except the boot. It could go on for hours.
We used to send them for 50 feet of shoreline or red running light oil. If that didn't work we would put them on mail buoy watch or to fetch the AN/VIL.In the Navy for entertainment we'd send the boots all over the ship looking for sound powered phone batteries we'd send them to one shop asking for them, they were out and send them to another shop and so on. Everyone knew what was up except the boot. It could go on for hours.
I recall young apprentices at the British Rail engineering works I was at for a time, being sent to the stores for a long weight. Storeman would then go make a brew and maybe have a leisurely smoke out the back, leaving the apprentice for maybe half an hour to an hour at the counter, to be told eventually that he'd just had a long wait.We used to send them for 50 feet of shoreline or red running light oil. If that didn't work we would put them on mail buoy watch or to fetch the AN/VIL.
In the army, it was a tube of squelch for the radio or a box of replacement grid squares.We used to send them for 50 feet of shoreline or red running light oil. If that didn't work we would put them on mail buoy watch or to fetch the AN/VIL.
Same in a joinery shop, sending the apprentice to fetch a left handed hammer or a long stand where they were told 'just wait there'.In the Navy for entertainment we'd send the boots all over the ship looking for sound powered phone batteries