Workers Help Files

The skip bin hire firm (formerly the local skip hire firm, and before that Death Inc) were busy with the first practical test of their new car. It was a skip, to which they had attached wheels, wings and a jet engine. In this way they hoped to revolutionise the motor trade industry; why, they reasoned, would anyone want to buy a normal boring ordinary old car when they could buy a rocket powered flying skip? This logic fitted many of their previous plans, in that it was completely nonsensical and utterly pointless to fit wings to a skip. It just wasn't aerodynamically suited for flying, and deep down in their heart of hearts everyone at the skip hire firm knew that. But they were bored, and this was something to do to pass the time. It would get the motor trade commission of their backs too.

The first practical test of this new car involved taking the skip up to the top of a really steep hill, then firing up the jet engine and watching their new carhurtle back down the hill and hopefully the wings would enable it to take to the air and thus they would have the world's very first flying skip.

Unfortunately, things went wrong pretty quickly. As the skip hurtled down hill at a terrifying speed, the unfortunate person chosen to be the pilot suddenly realised that they hadn't actually gone to the trouble of installing any sort of controls for him to use which would enable him to control his runaway vehicle. Making a mental note that this problem would have to be addressed before the car went on the motor trade market, he then also realised that he couldn't actually see anything either. He was just briefly aware of a sensation of flying, and as the rocket motor was turned up to full powers he was thrown flat on his back by the sheer force of the acceleration.

But, as I previously mentioned, the skip had no controls or any sort of steering mechanism at all, and so this unfortunate test subject was killed outright when his skip crashed into the sea after a mere ten seconds in the sky. The practical test was a failure.