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 Q&A, The Guardian, 31 January 2026 source ↗
I cleaned for a very posh lady in Knightsbridge who made me handwash her knickers. I’d advertised myself in The Lady as a dog walker, so I’m not sure how I ended up there.
Working in a betting office on Grand National day. I was 17 and my hair was scrunched like Mick Hucknall’s.
Putting ball bearings into Mum roll-on deodorant bottles in a factory, one summer when I was 17.
I waited tables for one night at the turn of the century. They were being fussy about how I put the food on the plates, and I couldn’t have cared less.
At school, I got my head stuck in a balustrade on the stairs at lunchtime. I had pupils laughing at me, parents laughing at me, teachers laughing at me and eventually, at the end of the day, the fire brigade laughing at me.
“What is Seann Walsh and how do we make it die?” It was online, thankfully. It wasn’t in Sainsbury’s.
A comedian or the guy who drives the little truck around airports that takes old ladies to their gate.
That I’m going to start commenting “Wow” under AI images I think are real.
Enthusiastic, chaotic, bungling.
Finding your phone.
Chris Hoy, Sally Lindsay, Leona Lewis, Sarah Hadland, Guz Khan, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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