“Back in the old days people would often refer to the lounge room or dining room as the family hub, but recently, I saw an advertisement describing a fridge as the family hub,” laments Paul Duncan of Leura. “A pretty depressing scenario where the family gets together round a fridge. Presumably while using their phones of course.”
Roger Harvey of Balgowlah has more border (C8) farce to report: “In 1981, I passed through a dozen countries on a bus tour. As a group, we didn’t get passport stamps, so I drew my own design for each border crossing. Months later, travelling alone and at a Moroccan border post, I was ushered into a room by armed guards. They then sat me down and pointed sternly at my passport logos. One gruffly said: ‘Why you no draw for Morocco?’ And yes – years later, I did get a stern lecture, when surrendering the expired book for replacement.”
“A few years ago, when crossing the land border between Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, the earnest border guard took our passports and examined them intently,” recalls Grahame Burton of Hurlstone Park. “Guards were summoned, and a very senior looking official arrived to inspect our passports. They were most amused with the holographic kangaroos that moved in certain lights. They told us in bad English, but better Russian, that we were the first they had seen with such fancy passports.”
“I enjoy seeing clever number plates on vehicles so was wondering if any Kona driver out there has SILNCE as their plate?” says Warwick Sherman of Huntleys Point.
“Thanks to an indulgent girlfriend, my son got to drive her high-powered sports car around an abandoned airfield in the UK,” writes Jo Rainbow of Orange. “He taught his fellow pommy drivers how to ‘bloody fang it’ (C8). If only English cricketers had learnt ‘bloody watch it’.”
Geoff Carey of Pagewood was “mortified to read Mary Poirrier’s description of fanging it around Rookwood Cemetery. Surely, this would have been in the dead of the night?”
Pauline Hanson’s burqa stunt in the senate this week was a worry for certain members of the demographic, as was the well publicised repast with Braddon curb crawler Barnaby Joyce, but what really bothered Stephanie Edwards of Leichhardt was the huge Saxa salt shaker on the table. “Older Australians such as those two are advised to cut their salt intake to stay healthy.”
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