Washing Up

Washing dishes would normally qualify as a pretty dreadful job, but you might expect the misery to be somewhat abated by the opportunity for scoffing leftovers at the end of the day. Unfortunately, my experience of said job was in a pretty hardline vegan/healthfood sort of thing. Didn’t stop the well-meaning proprietor from stuffing horrific lentil/nut/carrot/etc monstrosities down my throat at every opportunity. They tasted as bad as they looked and the effect on my insides - well I’ll go no further. Still, I’m a besuited mortgage-slave now, so maybe it wasn’t so bad after all…

Gary Romain
g.romain@asb.org.uk

 

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