♥ Happy Valentine’s Day Sweeties ♥
Not a single thought occuringBut so pretty. Who needs brains?
He’s an honorary orange
Looks golden, like a mountain lion.
Gibson… Will you be my Valentine? 🌹
She says yes. Looks like I’m out of luck this year lol
It’s been a crazy 24 hours so I thought I’d share a cute little story with you all.
A few weeks ago I popped into Aldi for a few things and because I pay cash I have to use the wo/manned register. So I’m behind this dear elderly couple, maybe in their late eighties/ early nineties. She has a walker, he as nimble as an elderly gentleman could be at that age.
They go to pay and she’s obviously the keeper of the funds so she opens the purse and is handing the young cashier the mullah, one penny at a time. That’s ok. I’m patient with the old cheeses. We all get old. Oh no. Somethings gone wrong. Not enough cash. The poor banker is confused. The cashier offers a solution. You can pay some with cash, some on the bank card. Great many discussions were had between the 3 of them. A decision was made. The banker now produces the card and hands it to her husband. The gentleman did not know how to use the eftpos so the cashier helps him. He then carefully punches in the numbers one per minute. Approved. More discussions were made about how they could’ve got the budget so wrong before they slowly move on with an apology.
No worries mate. We get it. Shits fucked.
So what are the chances that I get stuck behind this couple AGAIN a week later. Probably a million to one but hey just call me lucky. This time the budget was better. The banker opens the purse and hands over the cash one penny at a time while the gentleman is packing the groceries. All done but she hasn’t moved from the cashier. A discussion was had. activate the patience button CEO. She takes a tiny step. More discussions. Do not push the old lady with your trolley like they do if you breakdown in the Burnley tunnel. At this point I look at the cashier and she swivels her chair so she could have a little giggle. I look at my groceries thinking I’m hungry. I could start eating them. A few more ballerina steps and the couple have now stopped at the corner where the groceries get thrown at you. More discussions. It appears they can not walk and talk. breathe. At this point the cashier has said “have a good day” at least 3 times. He is now aware they are holding up the line so apologises and encourages her to keep walking. They stop at the end where the trolley goes to pack. The cashier can not start yet. I dare not look at her. I am hungry. They eventually move on.
I waited the whole time with a smile on my face but I’ll still refer to it as Helldi.
I felt every bit of that story.
You have way more patience that I do in such situations. Granted, Aldi is not the place to go when you’re in a hurry, but the elderly that need to chit chat with the cashiers drive me up the wall.
I love the German way of things. Go in. Pay. Leave.
No need to socialise Beryl.
It was excruciating. Up there with when the oldies discuss what they will choose to eat for the week while standing in front of the meat, man handling all the packages. Ffffucking move. Please.
Add to that the lack of English skills (common in my area) and it just compounds my frustrations.
I get that we’re a nation of migrants, but I expect some level of the local language, especially for those who have lived here for 30+ years.
I get that we’re a nation of migrants, but I expect some level of the local language, especially for those who have lived here for 30+ years.
Kinda our fault (or the governments) for not mandating a national language. We don’t do it cause it opens a can of worms with indigenous folks and asks uncomfortable questions about national identity, but we don’t care that not having one fucks over the immigrants we so desperately want. Cause god forbid our population stagnates, but also fuck anyone doing IVF, for some reason?
Sounds like you managed to contain yourself very gracefully! I have an adjacent story this week. I was getting takeaway coffee and a woman in front of me had a toddler, who she lifted up and put to sit on the counter. Ordered and paid and then just stood there playing with toddler not moving. Cafe person looked to me to take my order, woman did not take the hint. I said excuse me, and she smiled and took half a step to the side, still taking up most of the counter space and toddler left sitting on counter. Cafe person took my order and I swear I saw an eye roll when she turned away. Like GTFO of the way lady, and take your kids bum off the counter where people are getting served drinks.
Omg. What an entitled mole.
OMG…a few weeks ago took my son to EB games. He grabbed what he wanted and waited to pay. Family in front of us, mum+dad with pre-teen kids. They finish their purchase and just stand there chatting. The dad is looking at his phone, the mum is asking the kids what they want to eat. 10 seconds in, I just say (loudly) ‘Excuse me’ and place myself between the parents. They finally took the hint and moved away.
you did well to not drop a polite “Excuse me, I’m so sorry, but there a lot of us waiting”. I feel for them, I do, but reach out and join a social club if you need a chat!
Haha. I was trying really hard not to rear-end her with my trolley. I did casually look behind me and saw all these heads left and right. I wanted to yell back “it’s not me”.
There’s a pair of older euro women that I’ve seen be difficult every time they’re at savemore. They run the same scams every time. The fourth time I called them out for queue jumping and arguing for the multiple discount on single items every time they come. They shouted at me to stay out of their business. I laughed at them. Haven’t seen them since. Stuff customer service bullies.
Ooooh the queue jumping!!! Had to call out some people for that shit too. Lady waiting in line with a basket, her mate saddles up next to hear with a full trolley like it’s nothing. I can tolerate a couple of items (regularly let people in front of my at Aldi when I got a full trolley and they have a few things), but a trolley? No chance sister.
Frustratingly cute. Hehe.
Exactly
Moved to Tecoma, near Belgrave last week. Call it bad timing as we’ve been out of power for over 24 hours.
Luckily we don’t eat meat or dairy, so food spoilage is minimal. But I’d like to see what I’m unpacking.
Neighbour left a note saying “welcome to the hills haha!” with his phone number and a recommendation to get ice.
We’ve just emerged from 27 hours powerless. Not fun.
Definitely the most cursed timing to have moved up that way! Nice neighbour though. Miss that kind of camaraderie
Not 10 minutes ago, Mickey (my cat) was meowing at my partner and I, just chatting. I walk towards him as I leave and say “watch him, as soon as we’re out of your sight l he’ll beat me up”, so my partner crept behind me as I entered the living room, where Mickey has trotted to, and the jerk didn’t do a thing.
But! As soon as my partner goes back to the other room, Mickey has pounced and started biting my leg like a Christmas ham.
He’s so damn dumb, but he knows what words mean and definitely did that on purpose. He plays softly when my partner is watching, and then claws me up like a mofo when we’re alone.
I love him so damn much haha
the culprit
So cute! 😍 Cheeky little face
cheeky little bugger
Many of you thought me mad! Some of you even requested transfer to another peanut factory! But as i have my jobbing solar panel on the terrace charging batteries, the camping fans cooling your air and cold bevvys to drink you’re glad of my madness now, glad of it!
Are… are you okay? 🤣
Fantastic, darling. No mains power, but got plenty of alternate sources
Mains is overrated anyway!
Indeed, but i think the battery wall just got a bump up in priority lol
Somehow managed to avoid the worst of the storm and power outages. Sometimes I love my little life bubble
We only caught the edge of it in innercity Melbs. We got lucky watched the radar and it basically just kinda waved at us as it passed by. We got lucky.
Ditto. Total non-event here in Thornbury. Ok, some palm trees lost their dead leaves/fronds and are blowing about and some street trees have lost a branch or two, but that’s it. Didn’t even have to reset the clock in the microwave.
I heard Northcote/Brunswick lost power so you must’ve got lucky.
Yeah us too. My fence died but that’s it.
I initially read that as your fiance died and thought you were being a bit too nonchalant.
Nope just a fence although I am quite attached to it. I saw it’s birth and now it’s death. RIP
My wife told me we didn’t even get strong winds in our hood.
Same here. Fuse box tripped twice but once reset it’s been ok here.
Inner city has its perks.
I was in the city when it started, my train line managed to stay fine and got home okay to just some wet grass.
Can you read cursive?
The Australian War Memorial is looking for volunteers to read and transcribe letters and diaries. They have a ton of material that needs to be made more accessible
As someone who collects antique cookbooks/household management books, and often has to transcribe (sometimes even translate) all sorts of annotations, this is super interesting to hear about.
Totally signing up and having a bash when I have some free time.
If your paeleography is that good (and you have the language skills) try Annotated Books Online.
I would say I’m definitely on the amateurish side of things, I mean I could definitely do some letters (like the above), but with annotations the hardest part (at least for me) is often the lack of punctuation, spelling, and even grammar, so unless you know the subject it gets a bit hard. My translating (French) is definitely not up to snuff for anyone but me, I would absolutely need extra consultation for it to go anywhere.
I have power, but most of the area around me doesn’t. Mr Woof and I had a very dark walk this morning with no street lighting. On a positive note the weather obvioudly kept people home and the food cupboard was still stuffed with bread from last night’s delivery, and I managed to score some hot cross buns as well as a loaf of white bread for lunch. The trip to work was a bit anxiety producing, as well as the whole area being dark the first two sets of traffic lights were out - I’m glad it was still early and not much traffic as a right turn onto a major road was bad enough when there was only limited traffic, I would not want to try it a bit later.
Same situation as me - we had no outage at all, but go a few streets in any direction and it’s darkness. A couple of major intersections with no traffic lights this morning.
It’s strange because usually when there’s a big ‘event’ we’ve been among the first to lose power and the last to get it back (often days later), our power seems to be fairly fragile. Have had to make a few spoiled-food insurance claims over the years.
I guess this time we finally got lucky. But I definitely sympathise with those who are without power for a few days, I know what it’s like and hope everyone has power back soon.
I’ve reached the point that I can’t do a full 8 hour shift just on phones. The anxiety and stress are killing me.
Been applying for work where phones are just a small part of the day and part time work. Partner starts his job soon so it won’t be so bad. But I do feel like a failure and worthless. Irrational, but all my shame comes from not being what I think I should be.
There is nothing wrong with knowing what you want and what you can’t handle. If something doesn’t work for you try something else.
I completely understand. A job where you spend all day on the phone sounds awful
Been doing it for over 10 years. I’m so burnt out.
Hahahha guy i host for free on my home server is up my arse about his site being down.
I suspect he dwells under a rock.
Ask him if he wants a refund
Why would you host someone for free? Ad revenue?
Because he is a nerd and i am a nerd and it is a lower traffic nerd site
hugs, good luck to everyone enduring power losses, take care
Serenaded by the sound of generators
It has been a long day and I am really ready for it to be over. Today has been way too busy for my liking, I think an early bedtime might be on the cards tonight.
Took all three cats to the Vet yesterday for their shots. They always feel a little sick after their shots, especially Gwyn he gets really unwell from them. So now today I have three moppy and sad cats who all want love.
Bill Cat brought a live mouse inside. He and Ted have a mission now, a sense of purpose and some much needed kitty fun.
Poor mouse. 😔
Clearing all surfaces of clutter so there’s plenty of room for the dozens of flower and chocolate deliveries I’m expecting today. Can anyone else relate?
Only time I ever had flowers delivered it was my chemistry teacher pulling a not at all funny ‘prank’. Was deeply upset.
Sounds like teachers get paid too much to me
Eh, they were single flowers and fundraising for the Senior Formal. Still wasn’t funny.
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