LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT
Inspiration has been found in the inanimate today as a local office worker spied an unused life ring on the ferry and began a series of heroic daydreams where they might have just saved a life or two.
On their way to a job that they hate more than themselves, office worker Percy Herbert (32) decided to sit outside on the Betoota ferry, which was named after an online naming poll was rigged by people with too much time on their hands.
While soaking in the precious vitamin D he would be missing all day, Herbert noticed a life ring sitting unused aboard the ship and as the ferry cut across the waves of Lake Betoota, so too did Herbert’s mind drift off into another world.
“Man overboard!” cried an unnamed civilian in Herbert’s fantastical day dream.
“It’s OK, I have the life ring,” decreed Herbert, holding the flotation device above their head, silhouetted before a golden sun.
“And it’s person overboard. It’s 2025 pal.” “…and then everybody clapped.”
Herbert then continued to share the rest of this heroic daydream with The Advocate.
“I know you’re meant to just throw it but I’ve heard people get knocked out sometimes so what I’d do is I’d pop the ring around me like a bandolier, hold the rope in my mouth, swan dive in and swim over to them.”
“Easy peasy.”
More to come.
