Ever Forgot Yer Snap???

[John]

Only happened to me once, was dayshift at Boulby, packed me snap, grabbed me snap bag and bottle of frozen orange juice and set off.
Snap time I was ravenous, could eat two 'osses including bones and fur!
Opened me snap bag and nowt there, not even a crumb!
My belly was playing all sorts of songs.
After that I always double checked I had packed my snap!!

Some years later I was on regular nights in Australia, I always carried a packet of bickies for after snap treat, sometimes a Kitkat or two.
Anyway phone rang, my engineer told me I'd be doing a double shift to cover for a dayshift absentee and a frozen TV dinner would be sent down for my snap.
It was a bit later I found out my bickies would help me through this shift.
The frozen TV dinner would be sent in with the surveyors and wouldn't be there until snap time!! You'd have thought it would have been given the district dayshift Deputy so I could have thrown it in the pie heater and be ready for snaptime!!

Anyway, after that I always carried a full pack of bickies just in case.

[spanker]

We had what we called snap rats at Ireland collliery John,one particular instance was when lads i worked with in the developments at that time had been having their snap pilfered and traps were set.
The rat in question just happened to be our district deputy,he had been taking digestive biscuits from their Mothers pride bread rappers !
They allowed it to be monitored for a while and one day Barry and Sol hatched a plan whilst we were in the sub station having a warm around the tranny, ( for the non mining guests a sub station was a place out of the way from the main air flow were one could hide for a warm,a tranny was a transformer not a human were one could get a warm unless there was an electrician in the vecinity who was doing 12hrs )
The lads had been watching re runs of Fanny Craddock, this is another funny story as the said Bet max video had been purchased as a porn film.Anyhow the lads had learnt how to melt chocolate onto digestives,Barry had done the dirty deed the night before at home and Sol had supplied the laxatives and there was many, these were neatly wrapped in coloured foil and presented the next evening in a Mothers Pride bread bag hung from the struts and left to be eaten.
The next thing we heared to both headings on the tannoy was the deputy explaing that he was unwell and hurriedly proceeding down the roadway.
As he progressed out of the mine we were kept updated by the button lads and supply lads as you can imagine he was in quite a mess as it took him several hours to get off the disrict, he was noted squatting every 100yds,very smelly as he wore at that time the orange workwear overalls and hadn't been able to get them down quick enough,sweating profusely.
He returned to work over a week later and no one ever let on about the laxatives but it worked the snap rat never touched any bodies snap ever again.

[rac]

an incident that sprung to mind reading about the snap rat was when i was walking up a roadway-quite flat and straight.i could see a light in the distance which did'nt seem to be moving,as i eventually got nearer i could see the caplamp was on the floor with the district overman wiping and cleaning his overalls.you ok--- wont mention his name he may be on here!
not really he said did'nt get me overalls down far enough and offloaded in back dont say owt will you? course not i said as i walked past chuckling. as i got passed (it was a main gate so the air was going inby) it was ripe to say the least.lol.