A Near Miss

Walking past a building site this morning, a worker was chipping away at something or other with a chisel. As it suddenly gave way, a chunk of something grey and hard went whizzing over the safety fence, and sailed past my ear; very nearly van- goughing me.

"$*@#!", exclaimed the worker to his pal. "That's not @#$%ing safe!".

Cobber, you're telling me.