Everything’s relative for Kate Arndell of Tamworth:“I decided to allow my two boys to attend the Tamworth show without me in tow. With clear instructions and $20 each for food and drink,I said I would collect them at the gate. It’s never good when the first words you hear on pulling up are ‘Please don’t be angry with us’. Jumping in with a small cardboard box,they revealed they hadn’t used the money as instructed but instead had purchased two baby chicks! We don’t live on a farm,so this was less than ideal,and before we’d pulled out,one chick had fallen down between the gear stick and the car seat and the other was sitting on my son’s head. Stress levels were high. Apparently,they were going to get a pig ‘but we were $10 short’! Happily,the chicks were rehomed after a two-day stay in the bathtub.”
“While at school during the Cold War in the ’60s,a favourite joke doing the rounds of the playground told of thieves who broke into the Kremlin and stole the results of the forthcoming election,” recalls Ian Eastman of South Turramurra. “Sadly,the story still has the same currency today as it did then. Does anyone else have other déjà vu anecdotes?”
“Love a tongue-in-cheek roadside sign[C8],” says Col Begg of Orange. “A number of American law enforcement agencies are said to be having success with ‘Drug dealers – Report your competition to us’.”
Tony Hunt of Gordon remains philosophical about Dave Horsfall’s spoiler situation:“When I readAnna Karenina[C8] I kept praying for it to end.”
On the other hand,Pam Fichtner of Dunbogan is impressed:“David and I both attended Matraville High,and I’m sure our English teacher Mr Barber would be impressed to know that David is reading Tolstoy.”
“Imagine my delight to see on the label of one of the first bottles of water[C8] I purchased sometime in the early 1990s that it was ‘Cholesterol Free’,” says Ian McNeilly of Darlinghurst. “While I’m certain it was a true statement,I’m unsure if this boast increased sales among those suffering from high levels of cholesterol.”
Could Adrian Connelly of Springwood be overthinking it? “It’s not called ‘Spring Water’ because they only bottle it in the spring,John Firth. I’m sure it’s because they somehow collect it using helical metal coils.”
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