Well, if I'm honest....
.....the Credit crunch has been the best thing to happen to me of late!

I used to have a great job, I loved it, it was my dream and God dammit, I was living it. I got to drive fast cars, I got to travel the world to see and drive other fast cars and I got paid to write about them. Joyous times.

Sadly though, I didn't get paid much. So little in fact that it made my wife very unhappy indeed. She was generally unhappy anyway as she had the misfortune to marry the 6ft 3 lump of Northern idiocy that is me, but it would seem that having no money or freinds around her really tipped her over the edge. Anyway, I digress.

So, after many many argument involing the throwing of many plates, the shouting of many words and the slamming of many doors I gave in to old wifey and I left my dream job, moved back to where all her buddies are, sold my car to pay for it all, got a job, earned my money, kept her happy....

....then she divorced me. Urm. Okay.

Still, no worries. I got word of a job on another publication with my company of old. I played hard ball and told them I was earning masses of the folding stuff at my new job, which of course, I wasn't. Que a series of phonecalls in whch they got more and more deperate to get me back when eventually, they buckled!

So, in the whole credit crunch era I have got rid of a wife who, quite frankly, I'm glad to be rid of. I got my old job back, and what's more, I got it back at roughly £5000 a year more than I was on last time I was here! Plus, I have more disposable income than I've had in a long time, a social life which is decided by me and a damn nice (albeit rented) pad which was dirt cheap as the rental market has fallen on it's arse. Joy!

Credit Crunch? What fucking credit crunch?
( The Pollitt chooses to listen to Enya on, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 12:36, Reply)