Budget Britain, and the Tale of the Tent
26 June 2010
Toby Young suffers from Status Anxiety
I glanced at my watch: 4 p.m. OK, I’d missed the first 15 minutes of the second half, but still. Not a bad afternoon’s work. I decided to take a photograph of the tent with my iPhone and post it on Twitter just to prove I wasn’t a total idiot.
‘Hurray,’ someone tweeted back. ‘Mind you, it looks inside out.’
This was soon followed by a cascade of tweets, all pointing out the same mistake. (‘Which is more of a lightweight, Toby?’ asked Jasper Rees. ‘You or the tent?’) Once again, the prospect of Caroline regaling her parents and siblings with the Tale of the Tent loomed in front of me. Reluctantly, I decided to take it down and start afresh.
By the time I got it up again it was 6.05 p.m. It had taken me over four hours. Something tells me I’m not going to enjoy living in Budget Britain.
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