Car gone celebrations
I sold my car! The car market in Kings Cross is a dank depressing hole of a place, I was glad to get out of there. Picture the basement floor of a multistory carpark filled with increasingly desperate travelers drinking away their sorrows as no buyers come to look at their cars, cooking noodles on camping stoves and playing the harmonica. After 3 days I sold "Darleen" to two lads from England- there were others interested before them, but they weren't good enough for her so I turned them away. In the end I made $350 more than I would have got from the buy-back deal, so I'm happy. Tradition down there dictates that the seller of a car buys a crate of beer for the poor saps still trying to sell, so I did that and stayed to drink a few. This was at half one in the afternoon.
Clearly I was faced with a choice- stop drinking, get a headache, go to bed early. OR...
After a couple of hours in the pub, I went to the Wii tennis competition in the common room, at half 6. Free entry, free wine (oh god), free popcorn, and prizes- first prize a $30 bar tab downstairs in the basement bar. Those of you who have seen me play Wii tennis will know the outcome- I rocked. Even though I was, by now, swaying mildly I won the bar tab! Magnanimous in defeat I invited my runners-up down for a pint. Good night, good people, we drank through that bar tab in about half an hour then kept on going. Feel terrible this morning, but it was worth it.
Edit: This all means I have OZ$1500 which I need to change into NZ$ at some point. Anyone know whether it would be better to exchange them here in sydney or in New Zealand? I have no idea which would give me the best rate.
Clearly I was faced with a choice- stop drinking, get a headache, go to bed early. OR...
After a couple of hours in the pub, I went to the Wii tennis competition in the common room, at half 6. Free entry, free wine (oh god), free popcorn, and prizes- first prize a $30 bar tab downstairs in the basement bar. Those of you who have seen me play Wii tennis will know the outcome- I rocked. Even though I was, by now, swaying mildly I won the bar tab! Magnanimous in defeat I invited my runners-up down for a pint. Good night, good people, we drank through that bar tab in about half an hour then kept on going. Feel terrible this morning, but it was worth it.
Edit: This all means I have OZ$1500 which I need to change into NZ$ at some point. Anyone know whether it would be better to exchange them here in sydney or in New Zealand? I have no idea which would give me the best rate.