May 31, 2006 22:51
I like having late lunches because they're so much cheaper.
The Chinese place next to work has $4 specials after 3:00 and most other places start giving good deals. The girl at the bakery gave me two scrolls for the price of one yesterday!
I carried on before about how retail people are nice in Melbourne, but do they ever seem too nice?
This safeway checkout dude started talking about drug dealers and another one tried to convince me to pick up kung fu classes. And I feel a bit awkward when middle aged ladies say "darling" or "sweet heart"...
While I'm on the topic, I saw a drug transaction today! On the way home from inside a tram. My first time! This guy was giving something out at the corner of Swanston and Collins. The police were only 30 metres away. He had a spotter too, whom I spotted!
The people around me noticed it and started saying how disgusting drug addicts were. One of them had a very very openly campy accent. I don't support drugs, but "disgusting" made me feel uncomfortable.
Homosexuals are a lot better understood these days, but some old geezers would still call them disgusting.
For some reason I had thought that, err, less popular minority groups would just be more understanding of each other...