Only my second post...
After dropping out of A-levels about 10 years ago I spent a summer doing a braindead temp job at a place that made Sky TV cards. The work was so simple the bulk of the other temps were from special schools. Nothing wrong with that, they were all nice, but the banter wasn't exactly cerebral.

One guy's back story was he'd fled to England after having his parents' South African farm taken by force. He took up the braindead job to make ends meet and befriended the dumb but benign girl who 'looked after the envelopes' that the Sky cards were put into ready for posting.

One day, I turn up for shift and all banter is hushed. Before this story gets too long, it turns out at some point not long ago, he'd passed out stoned at their bedsit. So she decided to hop on his mate unprotected, right next to him as he was passed out. When commenting on her pregnancy, she said 'I didn't think you could get pregnant when you were smoking'. Then nipped out for a fag. Still pregnant.

By the time I left for a real job, they were still together, she was 4 months pregnant and still nipping out for a fag whenever she could.
(dripfed, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 2:14, Reply)