The recognition I deserve

Letter from Oxfam with heading: Nelson Mandela, Emmeline Pankhurst, Richard Holden.

I am to middle-class white British males what Nelson Mandela was to apartheid-era black South Africans and Emmeline Pankhurst was to women. At least, that’s what Oxfam would have me think.

This praise is even more over the top given the less-than-noble circumstances that surrounded my donation to the charity: I was undercharged £10 for a tripod yet, being the scumbag that I am, didn’t correct the cashier’s error. Hence a guilty trip to Oxfam’s website twenty minutes later.

Sorry, Oxfam: you shouldn’t put us heroes on a pedestal. We’ll only let you down.


2 comments

Wow, how much do you have to give to get one of those? My nanna would be so proud, I bet she'd frame it!

Posted by Melissa on 21 September 2008 @ 1:11 pm.

It was £15. Heroism is cheap.

Posted by Richard Holden on 22 September 2008 @ 1:32 am.

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