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stella41b -> RE: What heve you done to yourself that makes you laugh? (8/9/2009 8:13:20 PM)
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Once whilst staying at a hotel I decided to have a bath. I run the bath, have everything prepared, except for the bath mat (you know, the ones with the suction caps on the underside) and thinking I didn't need it hopped in the bath....
...lost my balance, slipped, flooded the bathroom, and.. got my big toe stuck in the hot water tap. It was jammed so tight I couldn't get it out. Couldn't get to a towel. Spent ages calling help forgetting that I had locked the door.
Eventually someone came, the receptionist, who got the manager to bust the door down, who tried to prise my big toe out of the tap, without success. Called for the chef who came with fat and still couldn't get my toe out of the tap.
This is in Poland by the way.
The manager calls an ambulance, the ambulance crew come, decide not to try pulling my toe out of the tap, but are unable to find anything to help release my toe in their kit. The fire brigade is then called, who cut the bath out of the bathroom and I am covered by a towel and carried downstairs by the firemen and hotel staff to the ambulance.
The bath wouldn't fit in the ambulance. However they managed to flag down a passing farmer on a tractor with a trailer and I was loaded in the bath onto the trailer and driven to the local hospital with the ambulance following. The hospital was about ten miles away, it was during the day and plenty of passers by.
We get to the hospital car park and the staff don't want to admit me in the bath to the emergency department so they get a plumber to cut the tap out of the bath. They're about to ask me to get out of the bath and walk to the department when they realize that I don't have any clothes and just have a towel. I didn't think about this either.
The hospital staff go back inside the building and return with a pair of pyjamas. I put the pyjamas on and limp with tap attached into the emergency department. A nurse removes the tap by spraying some freezing spray on my toe and pulling it out. I have an X-ray. I have a broken toe which they bandage up.
They ask me for my documents and proof of medical insurance which I didn't have. They then demand payment. I don't have any money. I explain that I am British. They call the police.
The police arrive, ask me why I haven't any documents or money to pay, I then explain what had happened, where I was staying, and that I forgot my clothing and documents in the hotel. I'm then bundled into the police car which then drives off blue lights flashing and siren blaring. I spend around ten minutes wondering whether I have been arrested or not.
But the police just took me back to the hotel.
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