Quote: fasty @ 6th July 2021, 6:58 AMIs that the bloke in the brown warehouse coat who moves the tele and VHS round from class to class on a Dexion® trolley?
Not quite, we had a series of posh trollies dotted around the school. Mostly the problem was pens, pencils, rulers, sandwiches, sweets, sweet wrappers, etc. effin' etc. shoved in the cassette slot. Never understood why they did it as surely watching a video is preferable to lessons, listening to a teacher drone on.
I've been slowly re-watching OFAH in order and in S7E4 "Stage Fright" it's explained:
RODNEY
It's not that funny, Albert!
(to RAQUEL) With my history the only chance I have of future employment is to go out and find my own window-cleaning round.
RAQUEL
I'm sorry, I don't understand. You left your previous employment of your own accord. You weren't sacked, you resigned. So where's the problem?
RODNEY
It's not as simple as that, Raquel. (Accusingly) Is it, Derek?
DEL
You see, sweetheart, Rodney's only ever had one real job - working for Cassandra's dad - the job he's just resigned from.
RAQUEL
But I thought prior to that he was a partner in Trotters Independent Traders.
DEL
Yes, he was - and sorely missed when he left. But you see, Trotters Independent Traders was never what is legally known as a pukka business. We never quite got round to registering our name at Companies House. It helped us cut down on a lot of paperwork...
RODNEY
And income tax. And VAT.
DEL
Yes... so officially Rodney left school at 16 but didn't get his first job until he was 26. The only other time he showed up on a government computer during that decade was when he received a suspended sentence for possession of cannabis.
RAQUEL (to RODNEY)
And you don't fancy window -cleaning?
RODNEY
No. I don't like heights.
ALBERT
Couldn't you specialise in bungalows?
