After all, my first color TV, a Mitsubishi, lasted me about 25 years.
"It lasted me a year and a month," he said of the Bosch, blaming touchy electronics.
That, Dr. Barron said, for a bee-size supply of "one gram, which has lasted me two years.
And my instinct — which has lasted me the rest of my life — was: All right, I'm going to die.
A $5 or $10 phone card abroad, bought easily at most newsstands or tobacco shops, usually lasted me more than a week with daily use.
It lasted me well into my 20s, by which time my tastes in music had thankfully moved beyond Sonia, Chesney Hawkes etc".
I had a pair of gothy stiletto boots, which lasted me for years: I had to make a sort of commitment to looking like that, because I wasn't going to get another pair of alternative shoes any time soon, so I had to think about which ones I wanted.
"He said it might last 6-18 months but it lasted me three or four days and the pain came back, so it indicated it was my hip.
This present lasted me well into adulthood.
"That pair of Reebok Classics lasted me months," he remembers.
The result: pneumonia that lasted me right through the holidays.
