Every year one of the old boy alumni from my school in Australia convenes a gathering in a posh club in Pall Mall for the ex-pats living in London. It's a thankless task and to that end it's a challenge coming up with a gift that is suitable prior to embarking on a long haul flight back to Australia.
What to get? What on earth?
But then, like a bolt from the blue, I decided to get him a signed copy of the reunion in cartoon form - from all the attendees. There's something about a signed object that makes you feel like you're appreciated, even if it involves so little effort to write your own name. In fact, most signatures were barely even a scrawl, so not even the effort to write whole words.
Anyhow, here's the artefact - and what an impact it had. He's never organising another one again.
And the feedback "what an amazing cartoon. It deserves a place in perpetuity; I (will) ask the school that it be hung in a reasonably prominent place - it actually has some good history!"
If you'd like to have the same effect on someone you value for all the effort they've put in, like for an annual reunion tradition, give a thought to an object like this one.
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