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The sweet nostalgia of Mum and Dad's jobs ... Part 2
Kiwi comedian Amanda Kennedy (@Ahhmandah) asked her Twitter followers, what's one thing a parent's job gave you that other people are unlikely to experience? Following on from yesterday, here are more:
1. "My dad was a freezing
worker and he was able to supply my 4th form class with a very large jar of bulls' eyes that we went on to dissect."
2. "My dad worked in alternative fuel systems and I ended up with the first car in NZ converted to LPG - a Mark 3 Cortina. Went for my driving test and the dude was so keen to pop the bonnet (not a euphemism) he basically passed me before I'd driven out of the car park."
3. "Dad was a police dog handler and every Wednesday evening I was - very happily - padded up like the Michelin Man, tracked by two or three police dogs and brought down trying to escape. Rouse! Lol. I loved it."
4. "My father was a movie theatre manager. I went to the NZ premiere of the first Star Wars film three months before it was in movie theatres in NZ - about 1977 - classmates were so jealous."
5. "My mum couldn't get a babysitter for Christmas Eve while she worked night shift at a hospital. She sneaked my brother and me in after midnight and we slept in some empty patient rooms!"
