Mucking out pigs on a farm when I was 15.
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A comedy gig at an army barracks for thousands of angry, horny squaddies just back from six months in the desert. I was on straight after the stripper.
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When my cold toes drain the heat from his warm ones, but he doesn’t mind at all and is happy for our tarsal temperatures to meet in the middle.
Self-destruction.
I’ve never been upgraded on a plane.
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