Sparky stories from John the electrician (part 2)

John may be an electrician, but his speciality is crowd dispersal. At the first rumble of thunder, rooms clear and planes take off empty. Stand next to him, and there's a good chance that you could be electrocuted, drowned or in freefall at 20,000 feet. And that's just for starters.

In his twenty-year career John, who's 40, has:

- Been struck by lightning. At the time, he was at a school - mending the lightning conductors

- Been trapped in church basement for four hours after his workmates forgot he was there and locked the trapdoor. He'd have been there over the weekend, but for his mum, who rang his boss to find out why he hadn't turned up for his tea

- Caused a major explosion in an over-heated office when the fuse board he was mending went up in flames. The cause - one drop of his own sweat that fell on a live wire just as he was making the final connection.

- Discovered somebody hanging from the joist he'd was just attaching a cable to. He cut him down, called an ambulance - and the man recovered.

You'd think no sensible woman would touch him with a rubber-insulated bargepole. But John is happily married - despite the fact that on his honeymoon flight, the plane lost both engines and plummeted 15,000 feet before starting up again - seconds before it would have spun into a crash.

John is probably be the unluckiest electrician in the country.

But he's also the luckiest - because he's definitely married to the bravest woman.