“I was doing a ladies 35th birthday garden party up near Manchester. The grounds of this big house were immaculate, they had a couple of big gazebos and I was meeting and greeting everyone with bubbly as they came in. The hostess was very friendly and charming with everyone, but she had a wicked twinkle in her eye when she laughed – I should have paid more attention to this. The party really started to get going after her friends surprised her with a Fireman stripper. But strippers are always very quick – they like to rev the ladies right up and then just leave and he was done in about 15 minutes so he had left and all the ladies were in really high spirits looking for the next laugh. The hostess came over for a chat and thanked me for looking after everyone so well. She asked if I had time to “Just open a couple more bottles of bubbly”? before my time was up I said “Sure, no problem.” and turned round to pick one up off the table – as soon as I turned away I heard this snip and felt my apron drop to th ground and there I suddenly was in full glory as a new potential fireman!