u/OldEquation

In the UK for Remembrance Day we get artificial poppies to wear as a token of our donations.

One day at school I came out at break time and there was a girl, I think one class below mine, crying. I asked what was wrong and she told me she’d just dropped her poppy, which she had only got that morning, into a muddy puddle. I should have given her mine but for some reason I thought I’d get in trouble if I came home without mine, so I didn’t.

I still feel bad about it today. I could have made her happy again but I didn’t. I don’t know why the guilt is still there in my head after all these years but yes it’s stuck with me all that time.

So if you were that little girl at school in Histon, Cambridge, in November 1972, crying over your lost poppy, I am truly sorry that I did not give you mine.

So many apps and computer things now have “dark mode” and it’s become quite trendy. But printing things like this uses a huge amount of ink or toner, boosting the profits of the printer people.