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Re: How Many Railway Staff to Push a Wheelchair?

"Stephen" <newsmail04@ntlworld.com> wrote in
news:2o3ik.24448$WT.10873@newsfe29.ams2:

> Now I know that it sounds like one of the light bulb jokes but the
> answer to this apparently is nine.
>
> Yep you heard right, nine!
>
> My eye was caught by a number of Network Rail and station staff in
> orange vests as I alighted from a bus. Seeing a few NR branded cars in
> the car park I decided to be a little nosey to see what they were up
> to. I couldn't believe that a member of station staff was given the
> job of pushing (well, pulling to be exact) someone in a wheelchair
> over the tracks on the barrow crossing whilst all eight NR staff
> followed it across. The member of station staff then left the person
> in the wheelchair with the NR staff all looking at the barrow
> crossing. They should have just used the lifts as then it would have
> just been one man!
>
> If I hadn't of seen that I wouldn't of believed it to be true!

I wouldn't have believed anyone could think that using a preposition was
better than using an auxilliary verb to form a past participle, unless
I'd seen it with my own eyes. But if I'd seen nine staff members
accompanying a wheelchair user over a crossing, then examining the
crossing, I would assume that there was more to it than met the eye.

Rick.

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