This morning's incident is so typical...
I'm in the Salvation Army shop looking for bargains when a lady comes in pushing a most beautiful stroller pram. She says to the male receptionist who happens to be serving me at the time:
"Can just leave this here-it's in perfect condition!"
(perhaps expecting to be thanked for her contribution)
The receptionst is a young man who is serving me turns to her and says:
"Eh.. we don't accept baby's things here" with that confusing rising intonation which has the air of both a question and command. (Aussies don't know they are famous for this in the rest of the world.0
The woman is slightly taken aback but doesn't show it-because she is a polite South Australian.
I am dumbfounded!
"Yeah -just down the road is a childrens place - they'll take it" says the young man.
She repeats her offer just to be sure she can believe her ears. The young man repeats his denial because he rather likes making her feel uncomfortableby refusing her. He seems to quite enjoy telling her so again.
I roll my eyes and the woman winks.
Out she goes to the childrens place. She was as dumbfounded as I was.
Some idiot has obviously sued the Salvos for some piece of baby stuff that didn't work.
Result: Some officious bureaucrat in the Salvos has decided not to accept baby stuff donations!
Doh!
Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater!
As a result, hundreds of people miss out on useful baby stuff because some idiot sued the Salvos.
Who is the moronic judge who awarded against the Salvos?
I could do a better job myself!
Couldn't he/she foresee the consequences of following the letter of the law on this decision?
Can't they just use good old common sense?
If the judge can't use common sense then what hope have the rest of us got? I've been teaching young people for thirty years to make decisions based on common sense-not blindly following regulations-what is he point if they are hamstrung from making them in the real world?
Why does did this incident happen?
The judge, the officious bureaucrat and the receptionist like the POWER of saying 'yes' or 'no'.
Changing the subject....
Trying to volunteer in this country is like trying to break into Fort Knox.
Police certificates of good conduct and mandatory notification documents are necessary. No wonder there are no teachers or volunteers in the country.
What crap! Who would be bothered to register as a teacher or as a volunteer?
And who can trust the police? What makes them more trustworthy than me?
I'd trust myself before I'd trust the police.
Retirement, Kota Kinabalu
This is where I would like to be after I have robbed the bank
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