Stealing from a nursery!

So! 

What has happened this week? 

I went to hang at the cockpit for a bit on Thursday (after being at the beach all day I hoped someone might comment on my 'tan', which I thought was existent, but is apparently not), and found that they have another new toy. This week, instead of the usual Xbox game, or stolen road sign or bicycle wheel or whatever, it is a ball they have stolen from the nursery next door.

We had a goon squad outing to a Usyd college party on Wednesday. (John had suggested this as one his friends goes to the university of Sydney). We were all pretty drunk when we arrived (after finding a load of abandoned alcohol in a church on the wrong side of the campus where the taxi had dropped us off, after charging us almost double fair because we insisted on squeezing 4 onto the back seat). 

I know the abandoned alcohol sounds crazy, but like I said in a previous post, so much ridiculous stuff happens over here that now days all that it evoked was a 'oh look, some free alcohol. Let's have a pitt stop and drink it'. 

Anyway, as I was saying, we were all quite drunk. This resulted in us ending up in the WRONG COLLEGE and being escorted all the way to the proper one by a man in a toga, sporting a spear. Again, now a totally everyday occurrence.

After all this effort, Usyd lived up to its reputation of being dramatically inferior to UNSW, the party was not great and we swiftly moved on to World Bar. At the front of the queue, I was ushered in and given a stamp without being charged the entry fee. I was somewhat confused, but obviously wasn't going to complain. It was only when I was waiting for Ailsa and Alex to pay and get their stamps that I saw a guy demand an extra $10 from the bouncer, claiming he had been short changed, that I realised he had inadvertently paid my entry fee! Haha! He was quite insistent and the bouncer gave him his extra $10, so I got in for free! Score. 

I went to the cockpit today and found John naked in the living room.

It's now Saturday afternoon and I'm on my way to work. I've been napping this lunch time because I had quite a big morning. Let me explain. 

Most Australian men/boys sound exactly the same are impossible to tell apart.

After Thursday morning cycle, I was putting by drink bottle away and faffing around a bit with my bike, when I heard Tony (the BRAT who leads our MEDIUM PACED rides), say 'guys we're meeting at York Road gates on Saturday morning'. I registered this, but didn't bother looking up, as I said, I was faffing around.

 So, this morning, I turn up, having not had much sleep, but thinking I could just about tackle my MEDIUM PACED and MEDIUM DISTANCE ride, only to find that it wasn't in fact Tony who had spoken on Thursday, but the crazy fast man that leads the FAST GROUP out to waterfall and back (NEARLY A 100km TRIP). 

I almost died and will not be going with them again. 

$1.60 Strawberries

Also this week, strawberries are 3 packs for $5 in IGA! Just to put this into perspective, that's about $1.60 a pack which is one pound. So one pack of FaceWipes is 9x as expensive as strawberries. In the UK, strawberries are usually around double that of a pack of FaceWipes. And don't forget fuel is free. Crazy! 

Maybe they should start making strawberry scented face wipes instead of Aloe Vera or whatever they normally use and they'll be able to sell them for a more reasonable price.