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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, 8 December 2018 source ↗
Working in a call centre in Cardiff for British Gas. I was 21 and, I am ashamed to say, one Monday morning I ran away. I said I was going to the loo and never went back.
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.
Scraping plates in a fish and chip cafe in Whitby.
I worked in the customer services department of a mobile phone gambling company and it was very depressing, because the people calling up were usually not happy.
Waking people up.
I wouldn’t have taken that meeting [with Weinstein in 1997].
A warm blanket.
A mortician – I worked in a funeral home when I was 14.
Falling down a mine shaft in New Mexico while filming.
The trans community because I didn’t use the correct words, but I’ve learned from my mistake.
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