I have been lucky with all my jobs, starting with a Saturday job at 13 in a small local shop that sold amongst other things, sweets in jars that I had to weigh and bag for each customer. On my first day there was snow on the ground and I was asked to take the dog out - very happy to do that.
Then a civil service office job, not too taxing, but not boring either - remember a food trolley twice a day - buttered buns am and choc bars pm with tea/coffee. Returning after marriage and children (who were still small) I worked at a drop in centre whose purpose was to give unemployed a place to go and help them find work. There was a regular clientel for the pool table, cards and scrabble and very cheap burger and chip lunches. It was the days of leather and chains and mohican hairstyles. Although they looked threatening the homelife of some of these youth was heartbreaking. Highlights included my arriving at work to find all the staff had locked themselves in the kitchen because one of these leather clad users, over 6’ tall, was holding a rifle. When I walked into the common room where he was none of the other users were fazed and he was standing nonchanently with it hanging at his side, wondering why the kitchen was shut. As one of my sons had at that time been given an air rifle I recognized it for what it was and went up to the user and suggested that I put it away until he left as some people (ie other staff) were frightened of it. He handed it over without demur.
Some of us were concerned about the fact that some of the youth were sleeping rough. I gave my address to one of them, (known as Parrot due to his pink mohican) , and on a cold wet November night he turned up at my house soaked to the bone. After a hot bath, a hot drink and some food, and wearing some old joggers and shirt of mine we settled down to play scrabble to the sound of Siouxsie and the Banshees, (the record being of his few possessions) - I am good but he beat me! He stayed for the winter, and one night found me mending the torn sleeve if his leather jacket after he had been chased by a police dog for urinating in a doorway in town!
Have any of you got all electric cars? Pros and cons please.
Good Morning Friday 25th April 2024