15 mins of fame
What do you think of Donald Trump? Where is your favourite place for coffee? This summer, The
Dominion Post hit the streets to ask people random questions for our 15 minutes of fame project. Today: Tommy Grier, who hails from Ireland. What’s the best advice you ever been given?
Go travelling.
If you retrained for a different career what would it be and why?
I’d probably go into computers, into an IT role. I was going to do it years ago but then I landed this role [as an electrician] and I started travelling. You can’t go wrong with a trade when you’re travelling.
If you had only 10 minutes to live, how would you spend it?
My family’s ages away, so probably my friends, see what they’re all up to for the next 10 minutes.
Who was your best teacher and why? Probably my English teacher at my high school. Everyone has one but he was one of those teachers where it wasn’t a chore going to his class. He was a storyteller. Drug offenders – do you think they need help or imprisonment?
I think it’s really a case-by-case basis on some of them. I’ve never really dabbled myself but I’ve got heaps of mates that would be very recreational in what they have and take, and they’re complete pillars of society. Whereas other people just can’t handle it, some people just fall into the wrong avenues of life.
Are humans inherently good or inherently bad, what makes you think this?
I think people are generally good. I’ve met more nice people than bad people, so by the numbers I’ve met, the numbers are looking good. If environmental funds allowed only one to be saved, would it be fish or birds?
Fish are more practical but birds are something I see every day. I’ll go fish because I like eating fish.
If time and money were no object, would you sign up for Elon Musk’s trip to Mars? No, because if I had all the time and money in the world, I wouldn’t leave and waste it in space.
Donald Trump – a self-centred time bomb, or a breath of fresh air in world politics? What can you say? He’s a different kettle of fish. Self-centred time bomb.