72. Step out step up, Roge* – adversity becomes challenge, challenge becomes mission.

Ice-cream man, greengrocer,

encyclopaedia salesman**, teacher, footy coach & player.

Volunteer football club treasurer.

Drama!

Undermined, left posted – can’t pay players.***

Dedicated to the game, the club & lover of challenge

Drive the irresistible step

From helping hand to a lifelong focus.

An irresistible step with a forceful, pivotal impact on …  ????

Note:

* In case you missed or forgot about who Roge is? Take a look here … Short Memory #12 – Yes … but who is Roger

** Memories on this one are there and yet to be excavated – they will come a little later.

*** This Short Memory is strictly not a memory, I know. But I do remember the “vibe” surrounding dramas within the footy club.   This particular drama – Roger, a volunteer, being left posted with empty coffers and players to be paid – reverberates and echoes across time and space.

A “Sliding Doors” moment: in some parallel universe, the players were paid and Roger is now retired after turning the education system on its head.