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Goals and whales

AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 20 April 2008 | Views [299] | Comments [1]

So I went to bed last night at 11:30 (on a Saturday night) and then slept, non stop, no interruptions, not even a roll over, until 12:40 pm. AKA I slept for THIRTEEN HOURS. No one should do that.
No one.

Maybe babies...to keep them quiet and stuff.


I have been attempting to write my papers all day today and have accomplished NOTHING but a few sentences.

Yesterday on the tram there was this little girl and she looked a little weird so I offered her our seat, and she said no. (she was no more than 6) and then all of a sudden she threw up, but just a little. The woman sittin with us pointed this out to her mom and her mom turned around to ask her friend for a tissue and the girl, proJECTIAL vommited across the tram. There was one guy FREAKING out and trying to get the windows open and practically climbing up the walls of the tram to get away, and we're offering her our seat again and she's all bug eyes and freaking out and they got off the tram, everyone was scattering and the guy is still scaling the walls trying to get away from the 6-year old's dinner. The one woman sitting next to us in her Magpies scarf (there had been a footy game) had it on her jeans and her scarf and clearly this was NOT an addition to her already horrible evenin (the Magpies lost) and Lindsay Paris and I were trapped against the windows behind this wall of vom.

When the tram slowed I hopped on the seat and RAN to the back of the tram for fresh air and the girls followed.  I managed to knock some poor guy in the arm that was holding a pizza and leaning out in the isle to look at the puke.  He probably thought that the stampede to the back of the tram had ended but if he's ever seen Lion King, and I imagine he has, he HAD to know there are always a few stragglers.  The pizza was fine so I don't feel bad.

We pulled over and switched trams at one point.  The previously hilarious tram driver was no longer funny.

Sorry for those of you who this just grossed out. It reminds me of when I was little in puked in Key Bank. I still feel embarassed when we drive by there. (wasn't the one we went in to wire my money mom?)

That little girl will NEVER forget that. It was pandimonium.



Today I decided my life goals are

1) To stop being so ridiculous
2) To see a whale

and my friend told me that having "see a whale" is a pretty ridiculous #2 life goal so my life goals are now

1) To see a whale
2) To stop being so ridiculous

so that I can get the whale thing out of the way and therefore stop being so ridiculous. It seems more productive that way, I think.

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At least your experience in Keybank, while regrettable, has left you the ability to feel compassion for others in similar situations. I can't help but think this will come in handy in your future career in the classroom!

  -- mom Apr 20, 2008 10:45 PM

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