how the UK is not like western australia
no one has asked me how i’m going.
no shop assistant has asked me how my day has been, if i collect fly-bys, or if that’ll be credit or savings.
when i place my order in a restaurant, the waiter/waitress doesn’t say ”easy as”, “no worries” or “not a problem”.
gordon ramsay and law and order:svu aren’t on tv every second of the day.
it’s damp. and small, and kind of dark, even in the day.
people don’t wear coats when it’s 20 degrees C.
a white cat in a pink t-shirt isn’t howling for my attention. i don’t have to feed some very demanding crows before breakfast.
it doesn’t get dark at 6pm. people stay up past 10 o’ clock at night.
there are no drive-through “bottle shops”.
there’s no train down the middle of the highway.
speed cameras are big and yellow, and called speed cameras, not multinovas.
people say pepper instead of capsicum. and documentary, salvation army and journalist instead of doco, salvos and journo.
no national news presenter would say “good on ya” during a broadcast (nor call the sports guy “tommo”).
police don’t wear baseball caps… or guns.
there’s no gloria jean’s. no-one knows what a flat white is. i can’t go to dome for lunch.
but i can go to starbucks.
and i can catch a bus at the end of my street (and be in town in less than half an hour)
but i can’t see my dad.
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What about people saying, “I could eat the crutch out of a low-flying duck!”?
I haven’t been to Australia, but I used to live with some Australians. Classy. ;)
Comment by Keris — July 16, 2008 @ July 16, 2008
LOL, I think that might just have been *your* Australians…
I wanted someone to say “don’t come the raw prawn with me…” but no-one did.
Maybe it’s cos I lived with a vegan and a veggie?
Comment by Diane — July 16, 2008 @ July 16, 2008
Oh but don’t you miss it? I know I do!! And I need to go back soon. The only problem I can see is that you need a car. They really do know how to make a flat white which knocks the sox off any Starbucks I’ve been to. (Starbucks seem to be washing socks in their filter coffee these days!)
Comment by Peepo! — July 16, 2008 @ July 16, 2008
Welcome back, Diane!
Comment by Amy — July 16, 2008 @ July 16, 2008
Please tell me: what’s a fly-by? And why do you collect them?
Comment by Anne — July 18, 2008 @ July 18, 2008
I never quite worked that out, Anne! ;)
I think it’s points towards flights that you collect at some supermarkets — apparently it’s not very generous though… you collect for 50 years and get half a flight from Perth to Sydney, type of thing…
Comment by Diane — July 18, 2008 @ July 18, 2008