Plate crash
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My wife phoned me at work to say, her Father, who lived with us and who had been ill for some time was very near death and asked me if I would finish early and collect the children from Scool while she went to sit with her Dad at the hospital.
I collected the kids and took them home and began making some food for them. In those days we had a cooker with a plate rack at eye level either side of the grill.
Suddenly a plate in the rack broke and went crashing to the the floor. While cleaning up the mess the phone rang. It was my wife to tell me her Dad had just died.
Date submitted:Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:30:22 +0000Coincidence ID:5733
