Trev Vs Gravity - The Day the Postmaster Fell

Knuckles is back with Charleville’s finest, Trev
966, and this time the big banger yarns take a detour
into posties, planks and pure fear of heights.


It starts light – Knuckles giving a shoutout to his gun postie
Jeffro getting CTC hats overnight – then Trev drops a proper true
yarn about the local postal manager Tom, a paint job, and a fall
straight out of Cliffhanger.


At 14, Trev’s up on trestles helping Tom paint his house when
something goes horribly wrong. One second they’re cutting in
around the windows, the next Tom brushes past Trev, falls from
the plank, and locks eyes with him mid-air on
the way to the ground. Broken ribs, an ambulance ride, and the
sound of that “oof” has stuck with Trev ever since.


Asked to go back and finish the job, he climbs onto the same
plank, feels it rock, climbs straight back down and quits on the
spot:
“You can tell Tom to paint his own fucking house. I’ve quit.”

From there it’s a lifetime of being no good with
heights:


Boys on site stirring him up because he’s “terrible on roofs”

Walking sheets on a high roof in Mackay, promising if he
falls, someone’s coming with him

Ass cheeks “like suction caps on the roof” if he slips



Just when he thinks he’s getting better, he’s back on a school
job walking trusses along a fully extended plank. The boys grab
the truss out of his hands and Trev suddenly realises he’s got
nothing to hang onto. Frozen in the middle of
the gap, he watches a mate fall off the top plate and break his
neck on the ground below. That’s it. Line in the sand.


By the end of it, Trev’s made peace with his fate:
“This is me. I’m a concreter now. I’ll just stick to the ground
stuff.”

It’s a dark, funny, very real look at how one bad moment can turn
a 14-year-old Charleville kid into a lifelong ground-dweller –
even if he still climbs into the big bangers for a living.


#propertrueyarn


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