Happened upon one of our junior staff nurses with several towels draped over her shoulders and arms, and a couple of disposable plastic aprons over her head, carrying a couple of wash bowls and some more towels along the corridor outside one of our wards.
Curious (and slightly concerned that maybe one of our patients was fountaining from some orifice), I followed her to find that the ceiling had sprung a leak outside one of the patient toilets and a positive torrent of water was coming out of it. She spread some of the towels on the floor and knelt down to place the wash bowls under the falling water.
No sooner had she positioned them there was a crack and the ceiling tile above her broke and the poor thing was deluged in slightly yellow water of questionable origin, letting out a quite understandable shriek!
I felt very sorry for her and went to find some more towels, but it was rather funny to watch! Turns out the sluice on the floor above had flooded ?cause.
On my way back along the corridor I was stopped by a lost-looking patient who asked for the way to the "maxi failure facial department". Trying to keep from chortling I directed her to Max Facs, wondering quite what she was expecting to find when she got there!
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