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Home > Blogs > The Lounge Lizards > Archives > 2008 > April > 25 > Entry

Wanted: Drinking buddies for father

By alarsen | Friday, April 25, 2008, 06:00 AM

Mike Hammond deserves the award for son of the year. Reuters moved a story written by Paul Majendie about a son (Mike Hammond) advertising to find drinking buddies for his 88-year-old dad Jack who lives in a southern England nursing home. Offering seven pounds (roughly $14) an hour plus expenses he decided to hire not one but two … 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.”

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