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Terry Prone: Standing on one leg has become a tedious part of my daily routine

Like everything to do with what we’ll laughingly call 'ageing well,' the flamingo test has rules
Terry Prone: Standing on one leg has become a tedious part of my daily routine

Apparently, if you can’t stand for 20 seconds on one foot, flamingo-style, you’re goosed. File picture

My colleague is a serious man. Grave, on occasion. Not saying he has no sense of humour — his is in fine fettle — but I wasn’t expecting the flamingoes on his socks. Not a flamboyance of flamingoes, that being the gorgeous collective term for the improbably pink birds. Single flamingoes, he had. Flamingoes progressing single file and single foot.

I have to confess to being a small bit paranoid about the socks of male colleagues. That’s been a reality since the occasion a few years back, when half a dozen of us were pitching for business to a highly respected public body. Halfway through, it looked to me as if one of the panel who was going to decide on the winning company was looking fixedly at the feet of one of our side.

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