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The recognition I deserve

In posts on 9 August 2008 tagged self with 2 comments

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.