“…the careers advisor used to come to school and he used to get the kids together and say, “Whatcha you
want to do, kid? Whatcha you want to do? Tell me, tell me your dreams!”
One kid would say, “I want to be a space astronaut, go to outer
space, discover things that have never been discovered.”
He said, “Look, you’re British, so scale it down a bit, all right?”
“All right, I want to work in a shoe shop then! Discover shoes that
no one’s ever discovered right in the back of the shop on the left.”
A
nd he said, “Look, you’re British, so scale it down a bit, all right?”
“All right, I want to work in a sewer then…!”
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