Team Building

It takes two days.
There are exercises with balloons.
A 'fun picture board'
where the boss pins up
the photos of us in infancy
or childhood
she ordered we bring in.
There will be prizes.
We network over lunch.
I tell several people
I can't be arsed
with the 'fun picture quiz'
even for prizes.
There are more exercises with balloons.
On the second day
someone gets upset
because so many people
guess they are the kid
in the photo in the tree,
fat faced, wearing sandals.
I can't see why it is upsetting.
There are exercises
with toilet roll. To develop
trust a team member
must fall back into our arms.
We bully the smallest one
until she agrees. Falls.
Says she quite enjoyed it.
There are more exercises.
I want to build a bridge.
We baulk when required
to touch our noses together
with other people's noses.
We aren't that much of a team.
The prizes are given.
I don't get one.
The upsetting kid in the tree
was me.