Prompt #17. What is the best -- or worst -- advice you have ever received?
Best advice I ever got...
Get up off your arse boy, moping won't solve anything.
Jack and Mum said it to me when Alison died. Mum said it when Dad died. Mr Haskins said it every time Jack was this close to going.
And I listened. If I'd just sat and moped, well I'd be drunk and on the dole. Instead I'm a copper, I help others as I can, so they have no cause to mope.
Someone's got to be out there doing and it may as well be me.