A Sticky Situation

After an undisclosed and messy incident at the rubber plant it looked like a long shift ahead for Rick Francis and Tubthumper.

Pocahontas was somewhat concerned on receiving an explanatory phonecall from Tubthumper rather than her own partner of choice but Tubthumper cleared up any confusion explaining that he had been designated as, being furthest from the epicentre, unlike his colleagues he was the only one not currently adhered to the walls or floor and also able to use the phone without it becoming a permanent appendage. His secondary reason, however, in that he had been unable to ring his own better half as he had inadvertently forgotten his own home telephone number was considerably less impressive.

The repercussions of the aforementioned industrial incident would pale into insignificance compared with the sticky end facing Tubthumper and his inopportune memory lapse on his return to Spudgirl that evening...