The A to Z of Failures

How to Be a Failure (Part F)

Making the mistakes, so you don’t have to

Photo by Author. Ignore the bad handwriting.

Writing this part in the series has taken me a long time because I couldn’t think of a Failure beginning with an F.

But then I asked my family, and they reeled off lots of things. They dictated them to me. See the photo above.

So, then I had a new problem, which I approached in the way that any self-respecting failure (at choosing) would, and cut all the options out, screwed them into tiny balls and put them in a hat. Roger picked one out, so I couldn’t cheat.

That may or may not be me in the middle. Photo by Craig Whitehead on Unsplash

Fandom. Blame Roger. Now, you may ask yourself, how can anyone fail at being a fan? Allow me to enlighten you.

I was 15 years old when Luke’s Kingdom first aired on UK TV, and I developed a major crush on Oliver Tobias. This is he, starring in Hair. Of course, he was much more handsome in Luke’s Kingdom. To me.

Photograph of Oliver Tobias in Hair by Koch, Eric / Anefo (who has kindly dedicated it to the public domain.)