Adam Hibberd
Just been remembering my strange experience at Stoke Park Comprehensive School.
In particular, this one occasion when my friends and I were sitting down to have our packed lunch in the school canteen and I had packed amongst other things a peanut butter and sausage sandwich, and a large, fat juicy tomato.
So we were eating away and I finally got around to the tomato, and I was in the middle of a humorous conversation with my best friend at the time, Ronald, sitting opposite. I took a bite.
Unfortunately as the fates would have it that day, life was about to prove very harsh for my school friend since, as I squashed the tomato with my mouth, a single squirt of juice projected out from the tomato and shot ingloriously and most hilariously (to me at least) directly into Ronald’s eye.
I immediately burst into hysterical laughter, to the huge indignation and irritation of Ronald.
But that was not the end – you see this so tickled my fancy, I determined that I must, MUST duplicate this episode and it should never, EVER become lost in history.
With replication in mind, this time I made a small invisible incision in the tomato, ready for the contents to disgourge outwards should this carefully cut gash be pointed in the right direction.
The second (but this time deliberate) attempt was not entirely successful, as it only struck his jacket, missing his eye by a foot or so.
But do you see the nascent engineer or scientist at work here?