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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, 7 January 2023 source ↗
Working in a furniture factory in Warrington when I was 17. It was a summer job, and I had to cover the studs in the back of Chesterfield sofas with leather.
Cleaning toilets in a motorway service station.
Having to clean out my daughter’s digs at university. The memory of the state of that toilet still lives with me.
Doing the bins while working for McDonald’s in west Ealing.
My wife dying. I wouldn’t know how to go on.
I was in Kensington Gardens and this couple stopped me and said: “Hey, could we get a picture? I said: “Sure.” I put my arms around their shoulders, and they looked at me and said: “No, can you take a picture of us?”
People mistaking my kindness for weakness and stealing from me.
The most intensive and beautiful golden sunlight. It’s the strongest force in the universe.
In the Sultan of Brunei’s will.
Pleasure is a glass of champagne, happiness is when you are living your values. I get up each morning and I’m excited by the day, and I have good health. This is the happiest that I’ve ever been.
Adam Kay, Adeel Akhtar, Adjoa Andoh, Adrian Dunbar, Adrian Edmondson, Aidan Gillen
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