The Blandford Blog

How’s this for the ideal job. A man has advertised a job, paying £7 per hour plus expenses, and the job is to go drinking in the local pub to keep his father company. I suppose the “plus expenses” means you get your beer and crisps paid for!

The advert was posted in a New Forest Post Office by the son of a man who has just moved to the area and is missing his drinking pals. Not surprisingly there were 10 applicants ranging from 16 years old to 78 years old.

A spokesman for Age Concern said that it is a very common problem for the elderly. As they get older their friends get less and if they have to move they can end up isolated and lonely. This man is to be commended for using his initiative in placing the advert.

I agree, and do hope one of the applicants is suitable and the old gentleman finds a new friend too.