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Title: Wanted: drinker to join Dad in pub
Post by: bijou on April 03, 2008, 11:51:00 AM
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LONDON (Reuters) - "Wanted: Person to accompany elderly gentleman to the pub" -- and the lucky winner will even get paid for sharing a friendly pint of beer.

Mike Hammond put the advertisement in his village post office so his widowed 88-year-old father Jack could have someone to chat to on twice-weekly visits to a southern England pub from a local nursing home.

"It's got to be the best job in the world," Mike Hammond said as he sifted through a list of likely candidates who will be paid 7 pounds an hour plus expenses.

The successful applicant must not be a woman, a teenager or "somebody who is just going to get wrecked. Dad is not a heavy drinker," Mike Hammond told the Times.
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link (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080403/tod-uk-britan-pub-1a5e080.html)

$12 or $13 per hour to drink beer isn't a bad rate of pay.  :-)
Title: Re: Wanted: drinker to join Dad in pub
Post by: Chris_ on April 03, 2008, 12:00:42 PM
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LONDON (Reuters) - "Wanted: Person to accompany elderly gentleman to the pub" -- and the lucky winner will even get paid for sharing a friendly pint of beer.

Mike Hammond put the advertisement in his village post office so his widowed 88-year-old father Jack could have someone to chat to on twice-weekly visits to a southern England pub from a local nursing home.

"It's got to be the best job in the world," Mike Hammond said as he sifted through a list of likely candidates who will be paid 7 pounds an hour plus expenses.

The successful applicant must not be a woman, a teenager or "somebody who is just going to get wrecked. Dad is not a heavy drinker," Mike Hammond told the Times.
...
link (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080403/tod-uk-britan-pub-1a5e080.html)

$12 or $13 per hour to drink beer isn't a bad rate of pay.  :-)
Hmmm, why do I expect the majority of the applicants to be over-qualified?   :-)
Title: Re: Wanted: drinker to join Dad in pub
Post by: mamacags on April 03, 2008, 01:44:25 PM
I would do it for free. 
Title: Re: Wanted: drinker to join Dad in pub
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on April 03, 2008, 08:38:26 PM
Too much of a commute for me, I'm afraid.

 :bawl: