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04-21-21 04:36 PM - Post#909792
I was a fat, alcoholic 23 year old when uni spewed me out.
Then I got a summer job putting up marquees - carrying bales of canvas and poles, pulling ropes and hitting spikes with a sledge.
After the summer I was still an alcoholic but was about three stone lighter.
Some friends had a son who did that exact job after uni. He was a clean living super-skinny intellectual guy. But after a summer of 14-hour days in the fresh air earning good money, he was strong, confident and had plenty of cash in the bank. Not sure about 3 stone but certainly 3kg heavier! They got to hang out at some of the parties too. I tried to get my son onto it when he graduated, but Covid intervened.
The brief UK summer season and the ever-present possibility of rain means that big marquees are everywhere!
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