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As a wee teenager I had got myself a job working evenings in a local store, ostensibly a pharmacy the place was more like a mini market with the absence of fresh goods. The job wasn't too hard and paid enough to keep a 6th Former in spending money.

However, myself and friends used to have regular get togethers of an evening at weekends for fun, comics and gaming and we liked to have snacks, soft drinks and so on to keep us sustained during these long arduous evenings.

Que me, working in the warehouse taking care of all the rubish generated on a day to day basis which was stacked up in black sacks out the back of the warehouse doors ready for a saturday morning collection. On friday nights my buddies would arrive to pick me up and I would have spent plenty of time that evening loading stock into black sacks and strapping red tape around the top of them. Buddies would arrive, load sacks from pile into van, drive around front to pick me up.

We're not talking small amounts of stuff either - multiple 6 packs of 2 litre bottles of drink, whole boxes of choccie bars and crisps - every week! Enough stuff to open a tuck shop really.

Looking back it's no surprise that my weight problem started to develop around then!
(Thu 10th Jan 2008, 15:02, More)