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People that don't see reason shit me to tears
Anyway. I have now done the 3 pleb jobs. I have been a checkout chick, I have picked up other people's rubbish, and I have flipped burgers - I flipped around 100 today, maybe more.
So, the rubbish. Christ the human race disgusts me sometimes. First, there was just SO MUCH rubbish. Most of the bins were overflowing so it's vaguely understandable. The problem is the society that creates that much waste in the first place.
- It saddens me that the human race is so steeped in it's social norms and traditions that we'd rather do things that destroy the world rather than buck the mores.
- So much good food and drink just abandoned so we have to throw it out (again due to the traditions of society). Full bottles of drink, untouched fruit, burgers and sandwiches with one bite taken out of it. Sheesh, they slug you $5.20 for a burger at the WACA, I know I'd sure eat every last crumb even if I was stuffed full.
- Apparently some guys found unopened, still cold cans of various alcoholic beverages in the corporate boxes. A few days ago when I heard an ad featuring Kath & Kim and they were talking about "Hanging out with the effluents." on a cruise ship I laughed. Now I think it was poignant social commentary. The people with the money are the most wasteful.
- I found an empty whiskey bottle and an empty Beam bottle. I believe it's illegal to have glass bottles and to bring alcohol into the WACA.
- If it's a non-smoking venue, why did I pick up so many damn cigarrette butts in the stands?
- And I just feel like throttling the people who ripped those weird posters with numbers on them into little tiny pieces and threw them on the grass. YOU try picking it all up!
Okay, there were a few good things.
- It's enormously satisfying to jump on and burst those big inflatable hands. (But on the flip side, I hate organisations that hand out shit that will just end up on a rubbish heap a few hours later).
- I got some money for cleaning up other people's filth.
- It was vaguely amusing that even Matt declared that I stunk and I should put my clothes in the laundry and not leave them in his room. Matt who's room has a perpetual odour of it's own that he can't smell.
And today I flipped burgers, and made hot dogs, and stuff like that. Much easier and more pleasant than picking up rubbish - and I believe it pays better. My feet ache because I was on them all day and I have a nasty blister on my right foot. I shouldn't discourage people from buying the stuff by saying that it's stupifyingly overpriced. But I think everyone knows that anyway - only one guy complained about the $5.20 burgers. But I think the $4.20 hot dogs are even more of a rip.
And I revelled all day in the delicious irony that I was at the cricket and Matt wasn't. (Sorry bub). I discovered that that part when the crowd cheered, then cheered again REALLY loud was Shane Warne breaking Dennis Lillee's record. And I was there. I saw it. I didn't even know what I was seeing.
Cricket is so much more entertaining when viewed with a bunch of females that know about as much about the game as I do. We know who some of the players are. We know some terminology (but rarely know what it means). It's quite amusing.
Oh yes, and it seems there are no trains tomorrow that will get me into Perth early enough. Lucky I checked that eh?
So, the rubbish. Christ the human race disgusts me sometimes. First, there was just SO MUCH rubbish. Most of the bins were overflowing so it's vaguely understandable. The problem is the society that creates that much waste in the first place.
- It saddens me that the human race is so steeped in it's social norms and traditions that we'd rather do things that destroy the world rather than buck the mores.
- So much good food and drink just abandoned so we have to throw it out (again due to the traditions of society). Full bottles of drink, untouched fruit, burgers and sandwiches with one bite taken out of it. Sheesh, they slug you $5.20 for a burger at the WACA, I know I'd sure eat every last crumb even if I was stuffed full.
- Apparently some guys found unopened, still cold cans of various alcoholic beverages in the corporate boxes. A few days ago when I heard an ad featuring Kath & Kim and they were talking about "Hanging out with the effluents." on a cruise ship I laughed. Now I think it was poignant social commentary. The people with the money are the most wasteful.
- I found an empty whiskey bottle and an empty Beam bottle. I believe it's illegal to have glass bottles and to bring alcohol into the WACA.
- If it's a non-smoking venue, why did I pick up so many damn cigarrette butts in the stands?
- And I just feel like throttling the people who ripped those weird posters with numbers on them into little tiny pieces and threw them on the grass. YOU try picking it all up!
Okay, there were a few good things.
- It's enormously satisfying to jump on and burst those big inflatable hands. (But on the flip side, I hate organisations that hand out shit that will just end up on a rubbish heap a few hours later).
- I got some money for cleaning up other people's filth.
- It was vaguely amusing that even Matt declared that I stunk and I should put my clothes in the laundry and not leave them in his room. Matt who's room has a perpetual odour of it's own that he can't smell.
And today I flipped burgers, and made hot dogs, and stuff like that. Much easier and more pleasant than picking up rubbish - and I believe it pays better. My feet ache because I was on them all day and I have a nasty blister on my right foot. I shouldn't discourage people from buying the stuff by saying that it's stupifyingly overpriced. But I think everyone knows that anyway - only one guy complained about the $5.20 burgers. But I think the $4.20 hot dogs are even more of a rip.
And I revelled all day in the delicious irony that I was at the cricket and Matt wasn't. (Sorry bub). I discovered that that part when the crowd cheered, then cheered again REALLY loud was Shane Warne breaking Dennis Lillee's record. And I was there. I saw it. I didn't even know what I was seeing.
Cricket is so much more entertaining when viewed with a bunch of females that know about as much about the game as I do. We know who some of the players are. We know some terminology (but rarely know what it means). It's quite amusing.
Oh yes, and it seems there are no trains tomorrow that will get me into Perth early enough. Lucky I checked that eh?