Superglue Fascist Episode 3
Suffolk Constabulary, Martlesham, Suffolk
ROAD TRAFFIC UNIT
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2003
Incident 1473/9TU 14th March 2011Dear Mr Jingogunner,
The Chief Constable has decided not to take any further action in respect of the above incident on the 14th of March 2011. Suffolk Constabulary advise that in future if an emergency arises you must not attempt to drive a motor vehicle because you might not be exempted under Section 5 Subsection 2 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No.4) Regulations 2003 as you were in this case.
Yours Sincerely
S Timms, Inspector, Road traffic Unit
On Behalf of the Chief Constable
I just want to assure everyone that I did indeed carefully consider my situation, including important details like the law, the safety and well-being of the motoring public and of course, what I thought a sensible, mature, aviationarily cautious and unbold option would be. With such a serious loss of lift and planar function to my right wing, it seemed foolhardy to attempt to drive myself to the hospital. I decided the hospital would be the best place in case surgery was needed to separate hand, phone and fingers. Dr Patel's receptionist would only advise me to contact the hospital. I was able to use the landline for this and it only took 17 minutes to get to speak to a nurse who affirmed that I must go to the hospital and that they currently had a waiting list of about two hours. "But its really starting to sting and my whole arm is shaking" I whined pathetically, as I'm sure Mr Brianw will advise is sometimes the case with hurt, confused punters.
"Are you losing blood , having difficulty breathing or fear that you might become unconscious?" she asked.
"Well, um, no, not really, but my whole arm is shaking and my hand is superglued to my ear and the blood is running down to my elbow and my hand is going numb."
"Are you elderly, infirm or disabled?" she went on relentlessly, as if she was reading from a list although I would put money down that it was an off-by-heart drill.
Jasper would have answered in the affirmative, but I said: "No."
Then you must get to the hospital yourself and wait." In the second or two before she rang off abruptly, I could hear muffled shouting, banging and splintering sounds. I wondered if the casualty department would still be intact by the time I got there, whether enough orange and grey plastic quasi-chairs remained whole for the seating of a two-hour long queue of hurt people. I wondered how many drunk and drugged there would be, how many singers, poets, performers and other societally relevant apparitions would be doing their thing. Ipswich Hospital on a Monday afternoon? Surely not many. Not like a hospital in say, New York or New Dheli or any other third world hospital. I mean, would there be that much actual difference experientially if you were in a hospital in Karachi, say, compared to a hospital in any large American or European city?
I rang Ipswich Taxis. Sorry, big convention at the Holiday Inn, nothing free for 'at least an hour.'
I tried other taxi firms with strong Suffolk accents and they were all busy. I began to panic, but then calmed myself with positive focusing, regular breathing and rational adjustments, just like Mr AFTS-Crash and other icons of aviationarily exemplary comportment, like Biggles, for instance. What would Biggles have done, how would Biggles respond to this or any other challenge? I went and got a couple of large towels and some gaffer tape and fashioned myself a sort of sling to stop the trembling. I lay accross the sofa in the conservatory with my feet on the back rest and my head on piled-up cushions lower than the seat, so that the blood ran back into my hand. (Mrs J allows feet-up on the conservatory sofa but not on any of the others). Stayed with the breathing. Ran through the off-by-heart of neighbours and friends. Duane and Dave (civil partnership at No 41). No good, had quite unjustly and without evidence accused me of homophobia and of being a 'nasty bigot'. Mary and Tim at no 40. No car in drive. Possibly a car in the garage, worth a call later, but marked them 'last resort' on the list – heavy smokers, politically raving. No 42, on the other side of mine, Harry and Grace, famous academics, completely impossible to understand a word they say. No car in drive but keen cyclists, wear their cycle-helmets in the shower and in bed, I heard. Marked them as 'possible'. No 43, directly opposite, Sue Barrett, famous drink-driver and would-be sex symbol. Always good for a laugh but Mrs J doesn't speak to her and gets tearful if I do.
The thing is, you see, when I first bought this house I didn't of course know any of the neighbours and thus made an attempt to be friendly, polite, affable. For those Americans who are reading this, if you are not familiar with English custom, there is no big welcome from new neighbours in England, you just wave or say 'good morning' politely, by way of greeting and your relationship often does not progress beyond that, even after twenty years or more, like Mrs Ostler at No 15. I believe its much the same in other European countries. At that time Sue Barrett seemed friendly and chatty. Or really quite, or even very, friendly and chatty. As readers on this site are aware, Mr Jingogunner is fond of chat and affability, foolishly naive as this policy has often proven. Can't help it, its a personality trait, sometimes undesirable in an extreme form but don't knock it, when written to order it can pay quite decently. So I reciprocated. She was fond of tight shorts and low necks etc. Can't say I objected, but I didn't then realize how alcohol affects some people. If she'd been your regular, foul-breathed, slurring, fat old woman, I would have remained cold, but she was then, I guess, somehwere in her late thirties and had a flat belly. She did not slur then (although she did later, when I saw her really drunk). She had a Suffolk accent, rather than the Standard English common to all my other neighbours, but it was kind of soft, not rough and straight off the farm. I always think, if only Mrs J would wear tight shorts, she would look much better than Sue Barrett whose legs are very good but not quite up to the Mrs J standard.
Sue would give me a wave as I entered or exited my driveway. If I saw her in the village shops or pub, she would invariably saunter over and engage me in conversation., yew same ter be settlin' in noycely, its a noyce area ter live, sim noyce people live ruined haiya, that kind of meaningless but friendly-enough small-talk. I don't often go to the pub because I dislike the effects of alcohol; it induces Dr Lecter so easily in myself and others, but I make an effort to socialise about once a month, just to keep up with gossip. Otherwise, things would have developed much more quickly.
Then, one morning, several months after moving in at No 40, as I was eagerly awaiting the return of Mrs J from one of her visits to Shropshire where she likes to Betty Davis her in-laws about, the front chimes went off. When I opened the door, there was Sue Barrett. She was sitting on the large mat, with one leg tucked under her bottom and one knee bent above the foot, struggling to arise. She wore a tight tank-top type titty teaser and a short skirt. I could see her gold thong. Her thighs were wrinkle-free, smooth, tight and white. Yes. I looked. I know Biggles would have averted his gaze, but you can always trust old Jingogunner to be sensible about these things.
' He'p me up, darlin', she slurred.
Guess what? Yep, you got it in one, probably spirits - I found out later she chain drinks neat vodka. Nobody warned me, of course, the English are too polite to be considerate and realistic.
The postman was striding down my drive and up the steps to the front veranda. "Hey! Jungoginner!" he shouted enthusiatically. "What wit dis womans you doing, huh, you nirghty mens, you, Miss Jungoginner she smack you, hehehehehehehe".
" Marcheck, do me a big favour, help me get this woman back to her house before Mrs J returns, she will be back any moment."
"Hey! I late for post, now I must go, goodilucky, goodilucky, bye bye, I must go quick now so bye bye! Goodilucky!"
Yes goodilucky bye bye Marcheck, you cretinous little Polish pratt.
"Jingogunner, needasiddeown, lemme siddeown."
I began struggling to get her back down the steps onto the driveway. She was resistant and vocal.
"Lemme siddeown, why carni siddeowninnachair, wassamarra witcha?" She was struggling to get back in the house. She wasn't a big woman, but she was relentless as an advert and drunk. I stopped trying to drag her down the steps and she sagged against me. "You sich a noyce man" she gurgled, sliding her arms about me and pressing her tank-topped-titties against my shrinking abdomen.
When it comes to drunks, give me an aggressive male anyday. They can be physically corrected as necessary, slapped down, kicked out. But a woman cannot be slapped. Women drunks are a nuisance. I removed her clinging arms and held her up by them as she tried to enfold me. Mrs J could arrive at any second. I must do something quick. I focused my thoughts, marshalled my resolve and steeled myself for a difficult twenty minutes or so. Just inside the front door was the hall, with several doors and two passageways leading from it. One of these passages led to the conservatory from which another door opened into the garage. Mrs Jingogunner had taken the main car to go to Shropshire. But the garage housed the second car, a small two-door hatchback. It was in my mind that I would introduce the good Sue Barrett to the rear of the hatchback; the seats were always kept down because it was used for shopping and running about, buying gardening supplies and stuff for my workshop. It was not possible, I thought, for a drunk to open the hatch from the inside. Once inserted, I would drive Sue over to her house, get her inside even if I had to pick her up bodily. Then, return rapidly to mine. The sign of a great commander and a true leader is the ability to think on ones feet, to quickly make a Command Decision which is appropriate and correct, ask any captain.
So, I got her into the hall by simply allowing her to embrace me and lasciviously rub her body against mine. I wished this had been an arousing experience, but it was not. I was focusing all my energy on controlling my anger and confusion while still flying the aircraft. I even got her into the passgeway leading to the conservatory.
But then she started to take her clothes off.
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Unfortunately, I have to return to some other work that pays better than this, so that is all for Episode Three. Episode Four will appear within the next couple of days or so. Since every word of this story is comepletely true, all I have to do is type away from memory. Its great. I wish it was always like that; I often have to spend ages researching dry factual data. But stay tuned, The Facist Superglue of Mr Jingogunner will resume shortly. Meanwhile you might like to speculate, even before the investigation is complete, did she take everything off? Did he get to hospital and why might he have been charged under the 2003 Amendment? How do they actually separate flesh from glue? (please kindly don't spoil it by telling them, Mr Brianw) Stay tuned!
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