Wanted: drinker to join Dad in pub
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:58 am
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LONDON - "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. "Bizarro the Grin need not apply. Dad isn't up to that kind of pounding."
His father likes women, he said, but it would be a little bit awkward going out to the pub with a lady he didn't know. Hammond went on to say that his father is getting to be an annoying old coot and he doens't want to spend the time with his father. He then walked away singing "Cat's in the Cradle."