Each and every day I was having a new probably mostly impossible whim,

Published Tuesday, 21st Jul 17:57 BST

Each and every day I was having a new probably mostly impossible whim, that I vowed to myself I would be carrying out by the end of the following week so it came as no surprise to me or my friends that I was once again rabbiting on about how I could do a degree course and become some doctor or teacher with a simple online test. Of course I wasn't naive enough to believe it wasthis easy. But, as a single mum of one, working in a dead end part time job, I was constantly looking for new ideas to improve myself and better my sons future. And invariably I never realised just how much work, cash, time or proper thought my recent whim needed.

For instance, take the time I had decided I could pass my driving test in few days, by not in fact taking any professional lessons, but by paying a very nervous half unwilling friend for lessons instead, only to whizz round a corner, with a massive crunch, having ran straight into a driveway where some idiot had decided to do rubbish skip hire on THAT day of all the days in all the time in all the universe. Needless to say my friend was not going to be giving me any more lessons, nor was she ever going to get yellow paint off the front of her car. How I'd wished that day that a simple online test had been available for driving too.... I specifically remember making a mental note to sometime in the future invent a steering wheel to connect tomy laptopfor such a purpose!.....

So anyway, here I was once again, my best friend nodding in all the right places, me knowing sheof course wasn'tlistening to a word I was saying as I went on about my latest 'big idea'. As she excused herself to go and empty her dryer I started flicking through the local paper, feeling guilty as I realised I'd been once again bending her ear about another exciting, impossible whim that would probably come of nothing. Suddenly as I turned the page a full page of colour and big wording greeted me'Be a stunt double- come and see us and learn all about it, at a local venue near you soon' .....

As my friend returned she greeted me with a smile, and obviously trying to embrace my recent stupid idea she said 'So, when are you thinking of doing this online test'

'Hey?' I replied 'What test? .... Here guess what I've decided I'm gonna be a stunt double'

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