I was brought up at a busy sub Post Office and remember the attic being full of cigs, small cigars and boxes of chocolates. I was chatting with my old mum a few nights ago about those days and neither of us knew how much cigs cost today. I thought about £4/5 for a pack of 20. I was very wrong.
I began smoking at Junior School, selling them in the playground, then by the age of 10 I was selling small cigars and lighters. I won a scholarship to a feeder (Thornville) for my local grammar school and continued my endeavours. The masters there soon caught me out and I came very close to expulsion. I stopped smoking aged eleven, discovered cider, beer and girls aged 13/14 and fortunately I’ve never smoked since.
Or drunk cider, after an incident indelibly etched in my memory when I spewed for what seemed like hours and brought up some stomach lining. Very rarely been sick on alcohol since...and only once in the past 30 years after an afternoon pub crawl in the USA mixing very strong beers with tequila shots.
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