Colxfile discharges himself...

--- In JMC_Blue_Dwarf@y..., EverettCln@a... wrote:
> "I think you've got a broken leg. You should go to sickbay."
>
> "No I'm fine, really I am"
>
> "You should go."
>
> "I don't need to"
>
> "If you don't go down in the next 30 seconds, I will break your
other leg and drag you down myself."
>
> "No, I'm fine...OW!!!"
>
> There was a sickening sound of bone snapping and Colxfile lost
> consciousness. The last thing he recalled was his head banging
> against the corridor wall somewhere en route to the medibay.
That was exactly a month ago, and Colxfile was about to be discharged
from the Medibay. A dream he had held long in his mind after
witnessing many scenes from his bed that quite literally filled his
trousers. His legs were still painful to walk on, but nevertheless if
he didn't leave now, he may not make it out alive. So while the
doctors were looking away, he ran from his bedside and back to the
safety of the mining deck.
He was quite taken aback to see someone else in HIS mining deck, but
not the one to pick a fight, he said hello and registered with
surprise a female human in the mining departments colours.
"I haven't seen you around here. What's your name?"
"James. Jeri James. You?"
"Colxfile. Just Colxfile. You new here? When d'you arrive?"
"10th October. I've been looking for you everywhere but I thought
you'd vanished."
"Did you try sickbay?"
"Didn't think of that."
And so Colxfile relived his epic battle of mining chief versus
storage cupboard, albeit having embellished the truth somewhat. He
hoped that Jeri wouldn't make the rather embarrassing note, but she
did:
"You'd only been a member for a fortnight, and you ended up in
sickbay?!" She laughed.
"Yeah, then you signed up a week after. Never heard anything about a
new worker in my department. What job you do?"
"Waste Removal."
Colxfile smiled. That would make her the head of waste
removal. "Welcome aboard. Do you know what to do in this job Jeri?"
"No. I was hoping you could help me out here."
"Ah. I was afraid you may say that."
"Why?"
"I don't have the faintest idea what to do either. I just sat in a
hospital bed for a month with 2 broken legs. Something will turn up."
"Yeah. I took the time to clear the mining deck for you."
Colxfile turned around and saw the floor of the mining deck for the
first time. The place was spotless: everything neatly stacked, dust
free computers, a FULL deck of cards...the list of improvements was
endless. Colxfile would have been sure that this new intake had
secretely acquired the mining deck of another ship and welded it back
to the blue dwarf.
"Waste disposal eh?"
"Yup."
"I'm sure we'll get along just famously."