We would've done it for free...
Published by admin on 4.28.2008 at 3:15 p.m.LONDON (Reuters) - Found: drinking companions to join elderly gentleman for a friendly beer at his local pub. Mike Hammond was bombarded with offers after advertising in his village post office for someone to accompany his 88-year-old father Jack on visits to a southern England pub from a nursing home. He offered the lucky winner 7 pounds ($14) an hour plus expenses and, after sifting through the applicants, decided on a job-share. Drinking duties are to be divided between a retired doctor and a former military man. "Dad's now going to be going down to the pub several times a week -- three with his new friends and twice with me," Mike Hammond told The Times on Thursday. "I want to give him some of his old life back."
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL2487835120080424?feedType=nl&feedName=usoddlyenough
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