Right

... to work at a bar.

So it was just, like, a local bar.

Got paid cash in hand.

So I met a few of the guys that, that used to come in there drinking, and they were, they were a bit older, like, in their 20s, and we become friends, and they were like, "Oh, we're gonna go into, like, the local town, like Croydon, like, to the nightclub.

Do you wanna come with us?" And I was like, "I'm 17.

Like, I haven't got any ID." And they was like, "Oh, it's fine.

... what were the signals, and what should they look out for to make sure that they don't stray too far down the wrong path?