Stoke station
ahh yes, I live near there. conversation sounds about right. I heard some girls on a bus having a very similar conversation.

In answer to your uni conundrum, my husband is from a council estate with no money in the family. At school he was told he might as well sign up to the dole now because he would never get anywhere, except maybe a factory job (thats how they help less privileged kids) .
Instead he took the 'staggeringly determined' option and went through uni, and is finishing his final year soon, moving on to do a masters. So it is possible to do.

Although it is annoying when you only have a fiver for the weeks shopping and someone says to you "why don't you ask your daddy for the money?". No, because our dads don't have any fucking money (well mine does, but it seems rude to ask).

Most disturbingly people at uni often look surprise when you tell them this....
(2 Owls? I'm there. has unorthodox kung-fu., Thu 17 Apr 2008, 22:07, Reply)