Lamb of God - Someone Tapped His Shoulder!

My team-mate told me that our Leader went for 'rounds' duty alone.

Going for 'rounds' means go round the ship :o)

Yeah, partially correct.

In actual sense, it means going around the ship to make sure all the cargo / hatches (doors) / ropes are secured.

That night because of short of manpower, our leader went for 'rounds' all by himself.

That was this opening on the deck with a ladder below, and the ladder was actually in mid air of the below deck, ie. the tank deck. Hm.... never mind if you don't understand, just imagine a ladder hanging in mid air.

This ladder was hung next to the bow doors, what we normally did was to stand on the ladder and reach out to the doors to check whether they were tighten. It was narrow ladder that could only accommodate one person.

When he was on the ladder checking the doors, he felt someone tapped his shoulder, he turned back and saw nothing, he thought it was the wind. In fact, wind would not even blow into that confined area.

He turned back and continued checking the bow doors, again, he felt someone tapped his shoulder. And this time he was very sure it was not the wind. He tuned back and saw nothing. No one could stand in mid air except him on the ladder. He went up and ran all the way back to the bridge, our duty area.

That was what happened.

That was fine because it was not happened to me, until someone told me about the kitchen I used to cook supper..........



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