Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's long-running Q&A repeatedly asks this standing question, with minor tense variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 May 2019 source ↗
When I was younger, I appeared in the Halifax adverts that featured a cake or a bridge made of hundreds of people. You stood there for three days and were not even really seen.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 June 2021 source ↗
Working in McDonald’s when I was 16. It was about 90p an hour. Because I was always late, they made me “trash walk” the length of Kentish Town high street and pick up the McDonald’s rubbish.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2024 source ↗
I’ve always enjoyed all my jobs, whether it was cleaning the stairs for my piano teacher or working at Lister hospital one summer.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 August 2019 source ↗
Digging holes in Manchester in January.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2017 source ↗
Nothing, really, because it was all interesting.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 May 2019 source ↗
Not having longer legs.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 May 2019 source ↗
When I received my scholarship to art school in 1945.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 May 2019 source ↗
No one I can think of, but lots of people no longer living.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 May 2019 source ↗
My parents. We didn’t realise how absolutely desperate they were when we left Germany, because my father couldn’t earn anything. A letter turned up fairly recently in which he said, “We’ve been through a terrible time because Julia [my mother] never stopped talking about suicide and not just for herself, but to take the children with her.”
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 May 2019 source ↗
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