HINDENBURG MOMENT.

HOW TO KEEP AN AWARD AND LANTERNS

I won the prestigious
'Inappropriate
Suggestion
Of The Year

Award'
at my second
Christmas work do.
However,

it wasn't “that”
kind of suggestion,
but I am prepared to say
that whatever

is necessary
to hold onto
this award
for the foreseeable future,

and because
I don't always know
where the line is
until I cross it,

I’m feeling
quietly confident.
Anyway, let me
set the scene:

as part
of the Town Centre
Festival
there was

supposed to be
a paper lantern parade,
which were produced
by lots of kids

who would then
march through town
with them,
but due

to bad weather
the parade got
cancelled twice.
So I sent out a letter

to the parents
asking them
to collect the lanterns
from the office.

I then sent round
an email to my colleagues
to make them aware
that people may be

coming to the office
to collect these lanterns
& then at the end
of my email

I suggested that
any lanterns not collected
could be taken home,
have a propeller attached,

set alight & they
could re-create
their own miniature
Hindenburg moment.

Written by my late son, Oliver Collett (1984-2014)