I folded cardboard at Blockbuster, and found inner peace amid the boredom | Paul Fleckney

In between teenage japes, a tedious job gave me time to process life-changing events, both happy and sadThis is a long shot, but did you by any chance rent Titanic on VHS around September 1998? Yes? Was it from a branch of Blockbuster somewhere in suburban north Kent? Yes? Amazing! We have so much in common. Because I spent several weeks of that summer folding and packing the display cases for those videotapes, and shoving them in the back of a lorry. Related: Packing Christmas cards knocked the