One Foot in the Grave1990

[first lines]

Mrs Warboys:
What's this? More paraphernalia?

Margaret Meldrew:
[reads] 'Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents'. Some survey or other. I thought I'd fill it in while we're waiting for the x-rays. [reads] 'Give a brief description of how the accident occurred.'

Mrs Warboys:
A garden shed fell on him.

Margaret Meldrew:
I put: Rotting timbers collapsed on head while dismantling old outhouse in rear garden. [reads] 'Was the accident unavoidable or due to the patient's carelessness?'

Mrs Warboys:
Carelessness. Put stupidity. That was asking for trouble in anyone's book, unscrewing all the nails in the building before you've taken the roof off.