Slight logistical f***up

[wedg1e]

So we buy some lead. You know, dark grey, heavy metal.
The seller estimates that there's sixteen TONS of the stuff, and we offer them a pittance for it, which they accept.

We send an artic and a forklift to the far end of beyond (well OK, London :D ) to collect it.

About lunchtime I get a phone call: "The aric is full."

"Good", say I, "See you when you get back."

"No, you don't understand: the artic is full but there's LESS THAN HALF the lead on board - and the trailer is bending."

:yikes: Someone slightly under-estimated this thirty-five tons of lead, then.

So now I have a slight problem: the wooden floor is NOT going to take this.

[simpo two]

Hmm, but you get it for half the price you agreed..

[kerfuffle]

And what do you want us to do about it? Perhaps each of us could take a small piece up in our cars...

[Einion Yrth]

Look on the bright side, you've got 35 tonnes of Pb for less than the price of 16

[kerfuffle]

I can imagine the negotiations: "You want THREE GRAND for 16 tons of bloody lead?!?! You can't even get BBC2 on it!"

[BliarOut]

What could you possibly NEED sixteen tons of lead for in the first place?

[kerfuffle]

I heard he didn't have much of the stuff in his pencil

[Donut]

BliarOut said:

What could you possibly NEED sixteen tons of lead for in the first place?

How many pencils can a man need!

[Donut]

kerfuffle said:

I heard he didn't have much of the stuff in his pencil

Bugger!!

[Liszt]

BliarOut said:

What could you possibly NEED sixteen tons of lead for in the first place?

Wedg1e fixes xray machines so probably needs it for his undercrackers.

[sleep envy]

Sell it back to them for the cost of 12 tons and head off to the pub for the afternoon with the proceeds

[kerfuffle]

I think the seller lead him astray

[Incorrigible]

Three grand, for a fg telly

[funinthesun]

kerfuffle said:

I think the seller lead him astray

lead him up the garden path you mean...

[funinthesun]

kerfuffle said:

I think the seller lead him astray

you can lead a man to london but you cant make him take it all away with him....

[funinthesun]

to Pb or not to Pb that is the question.....

[kerfuffle]

Donut said:

kerfuffle said: I heard he didn't have much of the stuff in his pencil Bugger!!

I wouldn't like to speculate what he might do with his new-found prowess

[maxf]

Take half away, then go back and get the other half? Surely you were making enough on one load to warrant the trip, so two loads and two trips will be fine too?

I am a simpleton though

[kerfuffle]

maxf said:

I am a simpleton though

That's true. Would you like to buy some lead?

[Size Nine Elm]

This thread is plumb silly. Or am I being dense?