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 Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2008 source ↗
When I was 15, I conned my way into an office job at a company that represented makers of breast implants. The manager had a wart on the end of her tongue that she’d push against her teeth, making a very specific sound.
Cleaning toilets in a hotel in Croydon when I was 16. A guest once gave me a half-eaten bag of pistachios as a tip, so there were perks.
For two weeks I worked behind the players’ bar at Bolton Wanderers football club – footballers don’t tip.
I haven’t really had a job. I used to work at my dad’s garden centre in my late teens, but it was just messing around.
A $100,000 Mercedes.
Not doing more movies.
Dying in a plane crash and having somebody else get top billing.
Visiting my children at college. I don't stay long, because their lives are so busy - the way they should be.
Jimmy Carter, for his wisdom and courage in going to meet Hamas.
Yesterday: my old dog, Kim, has cancer, and I have to let him die now.
Archie Panjabi, Aidan Gillen, Paterson Joseph, Martin Freeman, Dominic Cooper, Steve Pemberton
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