My tap shoes are in one piece again! Thankfully, the shoe man didn't completely screw them up, and he promises that I'll get at least another year out of them. I don't think I've ever been so happy to see a pair of shoes. I'd have to say that I'm also extremely relieved that I remembered to pick them up, as don't think my tap teacher would have appreciated me rocking up in socks tomorrow, although I might have been able to fake a few more steps.
I dropped into a bar this afternoon to hand in my resume and have a chat to the manager, and on the way out, an older workman winked at me and said; "you look a bit young love." I just smiled and kept walking, and he called after me "lets get you a beer and fix that." I was really glad that I had made friends with Eugene behind the bar, who distracted him while I made a hasty exit.
On my afternoon travels, I made a number of interesting observations. One of them I really couldn't miss. As I was stopped at a set of traffic lights, a man on the other side of the street was having a rather heated conversation with a tree. To begin with, I wasn't sure he was talking to the tree, and gave him every chance I could to believe he was sane, but after scanning the parked and stopped cars, and the sidewalks, and then watching his erratic gestures, I had to come to the conclusion that the tree had done something horrible to offend him.
When I got to the shopping centre, I was greeted by a sign in front of a massage chair stall that said "an aching sensation that feels so good." I'm not sure that I would recommend their advertising agent, because if I owned massage chairs, I probably wouldn't mention that it hurts before the customer sits down.
My last discovery for the day, was coles' new ad. If you haven't seen it, the new slogan is a continuation of their 'prices are down' campaign, boasting that their already low prices are still going down by singing "down down, deeper and down." This would usually be fine, but it's accompanied by some guys wearing red foam hands and making awkward down gestures in front of their crutches. If I didn't know better, I would have said that the entire campaign was Miley Cyrus inspired, and I find myself highly disturbed.
Xx, Little Duck
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