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The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 October 2024 source ↗
Waitressing. I was so bad. I smashed things. I once mistakenly ordered a very expensive bottle of wine for a table. They thought they were ordering a very average bottle of wine, and I ordered them an £800 bottle and they drank it. I got the sack a few weeks later.
Giving barium enemas. I used to be a radiographer in Coventry.
I worked in a cafe, which I loved, but when it was quiet we had to scrape the fat out from between the tiles on the floor with a butter knife.
Working in a soap factory in Huddersfield. I was in my late teens, so I was basically hungover every day.
Not being a professional footballer.
We become fertiliser.
Arrogance and narcissism.
Spirit of adventure and kindness.
Impatience and vanity.
Funny, impatient, annoying.
Gloria Steinem, Malcolm Gladwell, John Simpson, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Barack Obama, Robert Peston
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