Lord Bracknell
On fire
Washing up in a school canteen.
To this day, I can't stand the sight of lumpy custard.
To this day, I can't stand the sight of lumpy custard.
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What was the worst job you ever had as a teenager?
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Jesus Gul
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- Feb 23, 2004
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Summer job in a Horticultural Nursery.
See those industrial boilers over there? Here's a few pipe cleaners. Take your time.
Plus the reroofing of the greenhouses was fun in the summer heat. you'd be balancing on a soppy aluminium gutter heaving this heavy visqueen sheet off a role. Didn't actually fall off but a few of the others did. Landing on the fuscias below.
Then when the peat lorry arrived. 40kg or they may have even been 50kg bags - manually unloaded.
Plus at the end of the there was that small matter of the commute back to Brighton on the Raleigh over Ditchling Beacon.
I must have enjoyed it really as I went back 3 summers running.
See those industrial boilers over there? Here's a few pipe cleaners. Take your time.
Plus the reroofing of the greenhouses was fun in the summer heat. you'd be balancing on a soppy aluminium gutter heaving this heavy visqueen sheet off a role. Didn't actually fall off but a few of the others did. Landing on the fuscias below.
Then when the peat lorry arrived. 40kg or they may have even been 50kg bags - manually unloaded.
Plus at the end of the there was that small matter of the commute back to Brighton on the Raleigh over Ditchling Beacon.
I must have enjoyed it really as I went back 3 summers running.
Screaming J
He'll put a spell on you
In 1975 at the ripe old age of 18 I was employed by the East Sussex County Council in Lewes on a summer job as part of a special project.
We had to go round collecting samples of peoples rubbish from various types of house and from various areas of E Sussex. When we got back to the depot (now part of the car park at the back of Harveys) we had to put all the rubbish onto a large metal grid and sort it into various rubbish types - you know, animal, vegetable mineral etc; before taking it to the tip.
As you can imagine this was pretty disgusting at times - I remember a debate about in which category used condoms should be put into for example.
There were some amusing parts though. At one point we unloaded some rubbish which contained a large quantity of womens underwear; scanty selections from which we then tied to the aerial, wing mirror etc of our rather cronky old Commer Van. Unfortunately we were then severely bollocked on the day our van was followed back from E'bourne to Lewes by the County Council's then Chief Executive!
The aim of the project was - from memory - to establish the feasibility of putting an incinerator somewhere in E Sussex. Mind you if they'd have based any decisions on any of our results they'd have been buggered as we weren't the most conscientious of measurers - neither would you be if confronted by a large indeterminate brown mass of gloop covered in maggots.
Funnily enough despite the fact I went home after work each day on a crowded bus to Ringmer; I always managed to get a seat on my own. Can't think why......
We had to go round collecting samples of peoples rubbish from various types of house and from various areas of E Sussex. When we got back to the depot (now part of the car park at the back of Harveys) we had to put all the rubbish onto a large metal grid and sort it into various rubbish types - you know, animal, vegetable mineral etc; before taking it to the tip.
As you can imagine this was pretty disgusting at times - I remember a debate about in which category used condoms should be put into for example.
There were some amusing parts though. At one point we unloaded some rubbish which contained a large quantity of womens underwear; scanty selections from which we then tied to the aerial, wing mirror etc of our rather cronky old Commer Van. Unfortunately we were then severely bollocked on the day our van was followed back from E'bourne to Lewes by the County Council's then Chief Executive!
The aim of the project was - from memory - to establish the feasibility of putting an incinerator somewhere in E Sussex. Mind you if they'd have based any decisions on any of our results they'd have been buggered as we weren't the most conscientious of measurers - neither would you be if confronted by a large indeterminate brown mass of gloop covered in maggots.
Funnily enough despite the fact I went home after work each day on a crowded bus to Ringmer; I always managed to get a seat on my own. Can't think why......
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