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My first part-time job as a University student proved to be a year long exercise in learning the fine art of surviving extremely dysfunctional workplaces, negotiating highly aggressive bosses, dealing with junkies and managing less-than-pleasant members of the public.

I don’t know what it is about working in retail but customers seem to look down at staff in that sector and treat them quite rudely. Unfortunately this is often, at least from prior experiences, accompanied by similar, or even worse, behaviour from the management...

Every town has its share of characters who, for whatever reasons, slip through the cracks in society - Rob the Russian was one such character...

Every town has it's assortment of well-known characters; those individuals who, for whatever reasons, don't fit so neatly into the surrounding social fabric.

Phooey was one such character who figured prominently in my teenage years...

Some small video footage of me skateboarding in Stafford back in September 2012.

I hadn't been skateboarding for the previous 14 years and had only been back on a board a few times since May of that year...