OK, I'll Fall Back On The Audi
Without Prejudice
Seeing as some Junkie reprobate thief A-Hole has stolen my first car I will just have to fall back on the Audi.
I will not bore you with details about what we had to go through in the last two weeks without a car. It involves stuff like walking in heat, begging neighbours to get boys to school and home, lots of swearing, threats, tantrums, sulking and blisters.
Having to shop only once for a family involved hours at the local Coles and rictus grins at each other as we lied to ourselves and each other that we just love exercise and the Hay Fever is not too bad. We did have time my second oldest daughter and I, to notice other people's gardens or lack thereof. And a row of identical horrible little " boxes " all alike and probably expensive as hell. If course being me I managed to say loudly how particularly horrible one garden was just as the Owner came into view. We just kept walking.
Well it was.
All these dinky houses in a row, supposed to be design dreams and no further than ten feet at the front from your neighbour. Every one the same with what looked like a frosted bathroom window at the front. One had turned the pocket size front yard into a Bali Haven with an enormous stone " Asian Tranquil Face" water feature and a few bamboos. Looked ridiculous and out of place with all the other Aussie front yards. Aussie being grass, a few unhealthy plants and a bench seat.
Guess the inhabitants are too busy out earning the high mortgage payments to spend time doing up the garden. And their view from any bench seat is a wide open paddock and crackling Electricity Pylons. That must have been quite a hard sell for the real estate people but every unit, town house is occupied. Even better they have Coles car park right behind their back fence. And hot and cold running graffiti vandals.
We have never noticed all the small details in our community before, cocooned inside our air conditioned, gas guzzling vehicles. A trip of 20 minutes walk and naturally we drive it. Even if we are just going to the shops for milk. We both realised how much we rely on a car. And how we shouldn't. And how crap the Public Transport system is. To add insult to injury the Cranbourne train line was canceled on Friday. The whole thing, the whole day, just cancelled.
Seeing as some Junkie reprobate thief A-Hole has stolen my first car I will just have to fall back on the Audi.
I will not bore you with details about what we had to go through in the last two weeks without a car. It involves stuff like walking in heat, begging neighbours to get boys to school and home, lots of swearing, threats, tantrums, sulking and blisters.
Having to shop only once for a family involved hours at the local Coles and rictus grins at each other as we lied to ourselves and each other that we just love exercise and the Hay Fever is not too bad. We did have time my second oldest daughter and I, to notice other people's gardens or lack thereof. And a row of identical horrible little " boxes " all alike and probably expensive as hell. If course being me I managed to say loudly how particularly horrible one garden was just as the Owner came into view. We just kept walking.
Well it was.
All these dinky houses in a row, supposed to be design dreams and no further than ten feet at the front from your neighbour. Every one the same with what looked like a frosted bathroom window at the front. One had turned the pocket size front yard into a Bali Haven with an enormous stone " Asian Tranquil Face" water feature and a few bamboos. Looked ridiculous and out of place with all the other Aussie front yards. Aussie being grass, a few unhealthy plants and a bench seat.
Guess the inhabitants are too busy out earning the high mortgage payments to spend time doing up the garden. And their view from any bench seat is a wide open paddock and crackling Electricity Pylons. That must have been quite a hard sell for the real estate people but every unit, town house is occupied. Even better they have Coles car park right behind their back fence. And hot and cold running graffiti vandals.
We have never noticed all the small details in our community before, cocooned inside our air conditioned, gas guzzling vehicles. A trip of 20 minutes walk and naturally we drive it. Even if we are just going to the shops for milk. We both realised how much we rely on a car. And how we shouldn't. And how crap the Public Transport system is. To add insult to injury the Cranbourne train line was canceled on Friday. The whole thing, the whole day, just cancelled.
