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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, 4 November 2017 source ↗
I was a reporter for many years at the Washington Post. Although I loved every minute, I don’t think I was a very good reporter.
I have worked in McDonald’s.
Horrible gigs at the beginning, when no one’s interested.
I quite enjoyed all my retail jobs (I worked in H&M and Gap), but the worst times were the sale periods. The summer sales – awful.
A vet, but then I discovered you needed qualifications.
The motorcycle crash, but also when a neon sign fell on my head in Soho in the 90s.
Rolf Harris – he let us all down.
To my first real boyfriend, for being so mean to him. But really I was just being mean to myself.
A black Mercedes 500 coupé in the mid-1980s. I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I’d seen. (I had been clubbing the night before.) And I can’t drive.
In my first bedsit when I went to art college in Leeds. It was a hideous basement, but I loved the freedom.
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