But I did fall for this one...
As an apprentice, walked into mess room in the middle of a conversation about a one-man band. Colleague says he heard an interview on the radio with someone who was a one-man band, but he couldn't understand how one man could play all those instruments. So of...
Apocryphal: "Can you go to the stores and get a bubble for my spirit level please"
In my first Saturday job at a small builders' merchant (visualise the 4 candles sketch) - I thought I was being pranked when a colleague asked me to get him a length of 'birdmouth'. I told him I wasn't falling...