When I worked at a dog food company shovelling the exterminated rats.
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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.
When I was a kid I was a chambermaid in my family’s hotel, and I once found a strap-on that someone had left behind.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 February 2021 source ↗
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Scrabbling about under dusty floorboards as an electrician in my early 20s.
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