Thanks for the memories
“Growing up in Sydney, our phone number was WM3514,” writes Peter Lino of Lennox Head. “Over the years it became numerical and longer. As an adult, I had in memory (C8) possibly 50 important phone numbers. Today I tried to call the chemist and they’ve changed their number! It’s almost the only number I still have memorised. Sad day when the last one is gone.”
Bill Leigh of West Pennant Hills doesn’t think recently reported “e-bike cowboys” are getting the rub of the green: “E-bikers and the public are a lot safer with the riders cruising the golf course rather than hurtling around our suburban streets. Ask any emergency doctor in any hospital. Let’s have e-bikers and golfers share the land, with alternate days of access. However, while this new sharing plan takes care of the daylight hours, what about the night?” And will they replace their divots?
While Sally James of Cromer thinks “the apostrophe-inserters who are missing from the Hume Highway (C8) have obviously found jobs in social media,” George Zivkovic of Northmead reckons the signs were always there: “Ian Aldridge, just be thankful you didn’t pull into a café, off the highway and see a menu offering expresso orcapuccino/cappucino/cappucinno, with your smashed avacado or ceasar salad.” Spellchcker hates you, George.
Caroline Davies of Annandale is doing her bit: “I’ve given this a lot of thought and in the hope of improving international relations and assuaging Donald Trump’s lust for medals, I’m prepared to present him with my 1962 Bronze Medallion for swimming. I will, of course, mount it in a massive gold frame.”
“I’ve noticed recently a new description being applied to everything,” says Augusta Monro of Dural. “Organic (or organically). It makes me wonder how events can be organic; political or musical events, concerts, plays etc. The most inapplicable application I heard today was organically grieving! All very strange but I await clarification by the readers of this column.”
Don Leayr of Albury laments that “the thing that’s stopping me from joining the pro tennis circuit is that my arthritis means I can’t make a fist.”
“Who needs to carry fridge magnets (C8) when you have two cochlear implants that are attached to your head by magnets?” offers David Prest of Thruster. “Handy for detecting steel or plastic and as a party trick, to have two light steel spoons hang off them to amuse the kids.”
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