I must declare an interest in the front page of Thursday's edition which details, among other stories, the misery of what happens when the A55 is shut during the evening rush hour. A lorry crash between Llandudno Junction and Colwyn Bay was the cause…and I was one of the thousands of drivers caught in the midst of Wednesday night’s ensuing traffic snarl-up.
I was returning to North Wales from my recruitment training course at HQ in Liverpool. An interesting and informative day, although it was strange to be appraised about something I’ve been doing for 15 years and more. Well, if you can’t do it, you’d better not flaunt it.
I’m annoyed with myself for failing to offer my “duality” theory for interviews. In a nutshell, this involves a simple multiple choice test in which the interviewee gets two choices – with their answers governing their destiny.
For example, which would you choose?
A) City or United?
B) Tiswas of Swap Shop?
C) Cat or Dog?
D) Lager or bitter?
E) Which to read out loud as a group - “Wind in the Willows” or “Stig of the Dump”? a question posed to me and my colleagues by Mr Booth, he with ginger hair and big flairs and teacher of class four, second year, Hursthead Juniors, 1974. The vote went 28 to 2, leaving me and Steve Luty rather disappointed
No pressure for the folks coming for interview as a reporter but unless your idea of a good day is going for a long walk in the lashing rain carrying a plastic bag for picking up poo, while whistling Blue Moon and planning an evening supping CAMRA recommendations and musing on the humour of Compost Corner and the recklessness of Mr Toad, then don’t bother turning up.
(Only joking, by the way. So hold the tribunals).
