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Some further Sydney Individuals
Aug. 12th, 2023 04:22 pm1. A well-dressed woman, probably in her sixties, with a small suitcase and wearing a felt cloche hat, seated on the train. She was reading a glossy book on textile history and every so often making an "ooh" noise which sounded EXACTLY like the Cat Activation Noise
2. Young couple at the bottom of the travelator in Ashfield mall, desperately trying to retrieve their groceries from where they have fallen out of an exploded paper bag and got tangled in people's feet and are at risk of getting tangled in the end of the escalator. They were trying to stuff a large paper bag worth of groceries into a small plastic bag that had obviously just been pulled out of a handbag. People were coming DOWN the travelator and bunching up around them.
I got some way UP the opposing travelator before realising I had a spare supermarket tote, and so caused more traffic chaos running (with my trolley) back DOWN the up travellator to give them my spare bag.
3. Young Asian couple crossing Eddy Avenue. The young chap was carrying a hard-shell pet backpack on his chest, the kind with a clear plastic front. Inside was a perch, but no parrot.
4. Enthusiastic woman in her late twenties or early thirties, working the checkout at Woollies, who first asked me what elderflower cordial is and what you do with it, and then what I was planning to do with a recipe book ("you can get everything on youtube now!"). I pointed out that looking for recipes online you have to know what KIND of recipe you want, but flicking through a recipe book you see things you've never heard of. She was fascinated by both this and the idea of elderflower and soda.
I would hazard a guess that she is a fine example of the good business sense that Woolworths have shown for the past many decades in pro-actively recruiting young people with learning disablities, offering traineeships that can be completed alongside schooling, and so on. We had a FINE time over-explaining things to each other for five minutes and then she gave me more than my just share of the current promo Disney stickers.
5. Man who was definitely partly off with the fairies, who passed Shiny and I on the stairs of Petersham station and first asked how we were going, and then actually ANSWERED our responding "not too bad and you" with how he was. Which was not great, he would have been better if he hadn't just had to spend "a hundred thousand" on changing his address for bail.
I don't think there's a fixed cost to that kind of bail variation application, and certainly it's not a hundred thou, but perhaps Legal Aid have a nominal contribution fee or something. He was having a tough day.
2. Young couple at the bottom of the travelator in Ashfield mall, desperately trying to retrieve their groceries from where they have fallen out of an exploded paper bag and got tangled in people's feet and are at risk of getting tangled in the end of the escalator. They were trying to stuff a large paper bag worth of groceries into a small plastic bag that had obviously just been pulled out of a handbag. People were coming DOWN the travelator and bunching up around them.
I got some way UP the opposing travelator before realising I had a spare supermarket tote, and so caused more traffic chaos running (with my trolley) back DOWN the up travellator to give them my spare bag.
3. Young Asian couple crossing Eddy Avenue. The young chap was carrying a hard-shell pet backpack on his chest, the kind with a clear plastic front. Inside was a perch, but no parrot.
4. Enthusiastic woman in her late twenties or early thirties, working the checkout at Woollies, who first asked me what elderflower cordial is and what you do with it, and then what I was planning to do with a recipe book ("you can get everything on youtube now!"). I pointed out that looking for recipes online you have to know what KIND of recipe you want, but flicking through a recipe book you see things you've never heard of. She was fascinated by both this and the idea of elderflower and soda.
I would hazard a guess that she is a fine example of the good business sense that Woolworths have shown for the past many decades in pro-actively recruiting young people with learning disablities, offering traineeships that can be completed alongside schooling, and so on. We had a FINE time over-explaining things to each other for five minutes and then she gave me more than my just share of the current promo Disney stickers.
5. Man who was definitely partly off with the fairies, who passed Shiny and I on the stairs of Petersham station and first asked how we were going, and then actually ANSWERED our responding "not too bad and you" with how he was. Which was not great, he would have been better if he hadn't just had to spend "a hundred thousand" on changing his address for bail.
I don't think there's a fixed cost to that kind of bail variation application, and certainly it's not a hundred thou, but perhaps Legal Aid have a nominal contribution fee or something. He was having a tough day.