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 February 2017 source ↗
I was a reporter for many years at the Washington Post. Although I loved every minute, I don’t think I was a very good reporter.
Children’s underwear department at Marks & Spencer, Oxford Circus. I was 16 years old, earning money in my summer holidays.
Cleaning toilets in a hotel in Croydon when I was 16. A guest once gave me a half-eaten bag of pistachios as a tip, so there were perks.
I’ve never had a job.
Right now. Ask me again when my children are grown, and I’ll sob, “When they loved me more than that woman/man they’ve shacked up with.”
I’m convinced heartache almost killed me a few years ago.
A miniature pet elephant, one that is no bigger than a guinea pig.
A walk-on part for my mum in Les Misérables. It was in a charity auction. She always dreamed of being in a West End show.
Getting an A for my English A-level. I’m dyslexic; it was never detected and I was written off as scatty and lazy. This proved everyone wrong, including me.
Utterly relentless warmth and peace.
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