Spent about two weeks...
Caring for a middle aged autistic woman who was more or less independent. She smoked. Company policy at the time said that if your service user smoked, well, fuck it, you can smoke too. The company had installed a computer in her living room for us to type up paperwork on, but since I was temping, I wasn't expected to do the paperwork and was told in no uncertain terms to "go nuts" on it.

I would turn up for work, sit down on a comfy sofa, read a chapter out of some Richie Dawkins, smoke freely, piss about on b3ta, then get off two hours early on full pay. Nice stroll down from Tockie into Liverpool town and a pint at eight o' the Clock at one of the boss pubs on the way to the train station.

That is, during the week. Of a weekend things were slightly more challenging; We'd have to go to the pub and have a drink with her during the shift. Oh heavens above it was tough. :)
(Slyph, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 19:05, 5 replies)

what pubs?
the swan is pretty good, especially if you love rock
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 19:08, closed)

aww yeah, i love the swan, it's the best kind of dive. i remember when they did litre cans of cains lager. awesome.
(orestes is shitting in the 1940s, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 20:57, closed)

i was drinking black dragon last time i was in there
i'll definitely have to go back soon
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:24, closed)

Depended how fancy I felted
Went to the Fly in the Loaf a few times, if I wanted to be left alone to read all about bacteriophages over a lambic, but yer, drank in the Swan a lot too.
(Slyph, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:56, closed)

Ooh, you said the A word
Shitstorm incoming from a certain loved-up member of the subfamily Melinae.
( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Wed 15 Sep 2010, 20:03, closed)