STORY
BEHIND THE POEM UMBRELLA BOYS
.
It
was a typical
.
We
have short Gortex patrol jackets which are completely
waterproof, but they are short, so the water beads up and drips onto your
legs and backside. Some of us “old” guys have knee
length rain coats, but Derek and Andrew are junior enough that they don’t
have one and can’t get one.
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As
they were walking up the street, they spied a shopping cart full of junk,
including a couple of umbrellas. Being enterprising
young lads, they picked them up, opened them up and voila, instant dry.
.
Unfortunately,
an Inspector happened to be driving by and observed them.
The following day on roll call, the Inspector dropped by and mentioned
seeing the two beat guys. Our Sergeant immediately
piped up, “it must have been the other squad, nobody
on our squad would do anything as silly as that”. At
that point Derek turned beet red. It took some wheedling
and cajoling, but the two finally fessed up to
being the Umbrellla Boys and the poem was born.
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