A match made in heaven
Nov 26 '07
The Bottom Line If you live in a small place it’s probably better than being dead in a big one
There is something quaint about living in a town the size of Adelaide, here in good old South Australia.
With not much more than a million people things are generally pretty quiet and everybody knows everyone else.
Your scribe, being worldly wise and knowing the outside world, always finds it amusing when a local who is everything your scribe is not – well at least someone who thinks the world begins and ends in Adelaide, travels to one of the bigger cities. In Australia that means just about anywhere since Adelaide is the smallest major city on the whole mainland – sort of a little smoke hiding behind lots of big smokes.
Anyway a dear friend of mine – we’ll call him Phillip, heads of to Sydney, the big, big smoke with my boss – on a fact finding mission. Now Sydney is about five times the size of Adelaide so Phillip is in for one hell of a shock. On the other hand my boss frequents the dens of iniquity in Asia so is very used to the sardine effect – and to him Sydney really ain’t that big at all.
Can you imagine a worse match? Phillip and the boss going to Sydney – a bit like Romeo and Juliet in the backstreets of Calcutta at two a.m.
Speaking of the back streets of Calcutta, since we all work in social welfare I felt the urge to insist they both visit the red light district of Sydney – the infamous Kings Cross. There ain’t anything much you can’t get at “The Cross”, including herpes. But remember, this is a research trip so it is essential to see everything.
They both arrived back two days ago. Phillip still can’t close his eyes and the boss has been flat on his back, complaining of, you guessed it, a bad back ever since. I don’t think penicillin is what it used to be and as for Phillip’s eyes….well, memories do fade don’t they.
For the time being that is really all I have to report – but with any luck the memories will fade, the penicillin will kick in and I will be able to turn this into a sequel!
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