Richard Stewart of Pearl Seaside not too long ago “purchased a guide on-line and was supplied the chance to incorporate a pleasant reward card for the recipient, who in fact was me. It was such a pleasant shock to obtain the reward card on opening the package deal. Want to do that once more.” Sending messages to your self when shopping for books is unquestionably one thing that deserves to catch on. Though in Granny’s case, if the message was actually doing a kindness, it could learn: “This has to cease. No extra shopping for books till you’ve learn this lot.”
Ron Burke of Arrawarra had simply settled into mattress with an excellent guide when his spouse rushed in and declared that there was an enormous snake within the carport. “I reluctantly acquired as much as verify and positive sufficient, there was fairly a big carpet snake/diamond python there. Upon receiving the panicky order to ‘do one thing’, I took a photograph of it and went again to mattress.”
Including an apart to the horse opera/cleaning soap opera dispute (C8), Alan Karnowski of Wallaga Lake writes that “the ancestor of ‘cleaning soap operas’ was ‘kitchen sink dramas’. Earlier than dishwashing machines, clearly.” Not earlier than horses, although.
In line with Simon Grimes of Crows Nest, when “a leap second was added to the 12 months in 1979, the wintering Antarctic crew at SANAE (South African Nationwide Antarctic Expedition) despatched a strongly worded telex to Pretoria declaring that they’d been signed on for one-year contracts, and if the federal government was arbitrarily going to make the 12 months longer, they demanded additional pay.”
Like Anne McCarthy, (C8) Kerry Kyriacou of Strathfield was additionally in Cyprus all through the Turkish invasion, Not like Anne, Kerry didn’t sleep through the bombing. Nonetheless, a couple of months later, Kerry discovered himself in Darwin, when “Cyclone Tracy hit at about 10:00pm on Christmas Eve, and the remainder of the household had hassle waking me up. In my sleeping state, I refused to go away my mattress for the primary half hour of the nine-hour storm. Subsequent morning my mattress was coated with giant shards of glass.”
Scott Illingworth of Kiama seen a van parked on the fringe of the dry Todd River in Alice Springs promoting ‘contemporary native seafood’. “Provided that the closest ocean is 1200 kilometres away and that the good inland sea was thought to have dried up 65 million years in the past, I did marvel how contemporary it is perhaps.”
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