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, 12 August 2017 source ↗
I worked in a petrol station on the A1 one summer. I enjoyed it except when I was on latrine duty.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2017 source ↗
I was the PE technician at my old secondary school, so I had to pump up all the balls, wash all the kits and get the form notes in before morning registration every day.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 March 2025 source ↗
Clearing up someone’s sick – it was on police duty.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 September 2025 source ↗
Leafleting for a window company when I was 12. I remember putting them through letterboxes thinking: I’m going to sell drugs, because this is rubbish.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 December 2025 source ↗
Finding your place.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2017 source ↗
I inadvertently rubbed the milky residue of a toxic cactus plant into my eye while filming Women In Love in the desert in Namibia, and my body went into anaphylactic shock as the producer sped me to a clinic 50 miles away.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2017 source ↗
As the father of Celtic’s all-time top goalscorer (that’s either of my kids).
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2017 source ↗
Finding cucumber in things is a continual disappointment.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2017 source ↗
Last week I saw a moorhen feeding her chicks, and became overwhelmed by the miracle of parenthood and maternal sacrifice. And I hadn’t even been drinking.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2017 source ↗
My mother. Any child of a single parent, if they are in a relationship when they become a parent, thinks, “How the hell did you do it alone?”
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2017 source ↗
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