Another one is the Joneses at 27 now. New porcelain paving. Looks like Taralis Nordic. Everyone's going Nordic these days. Is the same fella doing it again? Ooh, dark bath. He's using Darkbath. Seek a jointing compound. Betty's got a trade account at you, son. Terralis porcelain paving from £22 per square metre and seek a fast-fits jointing compound at 2999 each. Plus, get 10% off

if you buy two tubs. All trade prices XVAT at 20%. So now you can keep up with the Joneses and the

Evanses. Back in the summer of 01, I had a part-time job at a retro style arcade. I was

16 years old. I had this long hipptime job at a retro-style arcade. I was 16 years old.

I had this long, hippie hair that reached halfway down my back.

The arcade was pretty run-down, but it had a lot of customers.

We were open seven days a week.

The location was a stones throw away from a busy tourist beach.

Though we had air hockey, pinball, and arcade machines,

we made most of our money

from snacks, drinks, and a small laser tag court, the adjacent building.

We were never more than two people working there at a time.

I was usually on cleaning duty.

People dragged in a lot of sand.

Machines got sticky from snacks, soda, and salt water.

Not to mention the toilets.

Seriously, we won't mention the toilets.

My cleaning bucket would need an exorcism at the end of every work night.

It was my last summer on the East Coast.

Dad got a job in some middle nowhere town,

so we were two short months away from uprooting our entire lives.

I was depressed. I decided to keep my head down.

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