Circle the station wagons!
“In addition to Ross Storey’s story (sorry, I stutter sometimes) about carrying a small cart upstairs (C8), in my final year at Asquith Boys High School we sixth form students did a favor for the teachers,” says Murray Hutton from Mount Colah. “We offered free car washes for all of them. The problem was that we parked the cars nose to tail in a circle on the oval, and the last one (Ms Pritchard’s Mini Minor) was carefully placed in a small space like a keystone. We didn’t stick around to see how they managed to get the cars out of the closed loop.”
“In the early 1970s I parked my Mini Minor in the car park next to the sports ground to play football,” recalls Waverton’s Neil Nicoll. “After the game the Mini left but it was about 20 meters away and there was a note under the wiper saying ‘your car parking space is required to park the ambulance near the oval’.”
“New airport tube trains are on their way to Orchard Fields Stabling Yards,” says Camperdown’s Peter Reddel. “How much horsepower?” I don’t know, but they are bound to be volatile.
Glenhaven’s Seppo Ranki wonders why Business Council of Australia CEO Bran Black is calling for an “exhaustive inquiry” into the tax changes: “Does he really want a sick, sickening and disgusting inquiry? Maybe he’s not a Rhodes scholar like his supporters?”
“Dear Grandma, your readers seem very knowledgeable,” says Faye Taylor of Kelso. “Maybe one of them can explain why birds only poop on white clothes on the clothesline?”
Tim Slack-Smith from Castle Hill thinks it’s sad news that “Mary Holmes’ long-lasting tumble dryer has finally taken its final tumble”, while Carole Baxter from Woodgate Beach (Qld) fully understands: “I was pleased to read that Mary’s Simpson tumble dryer (C8) lasted 55 years. I bought one in Brisbane in 1981, gave it to my son in 2002. I shipped it to Biloela, Qld.” Took it then four houses in WA and it still works, hope my 2001 model lasts a long time too.
Dondingalong’s David Roberts says: “Our early 1970s Hoover is still going well, although it did take a bit of a beating 20-odd years ago I’ll have to check it out one day.”
Finally, a desperate plea from Panania’s Neil Jones: “Can Grandma please do something about the ‘existential impact of the cohort’?”
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