Friday, March 09, 2007

Peel me a grape!

Is it just me or has everyone noticed how much stuff you have to do yourself these days?

I am not a fan of the self serve. Not at all.

Remember those restaurants and pubs that used to make you cook your own steak? I hated them. I hate all self serve.

I even get cranky when I have tear apart my own porridge sachets in the morning. Surely with all those machines and staff at the porridge factory they could get that little job done?

Therefore, I’m giving fair warning to supermarket operators planning to do away with checkouts. Have you seen this on the news?

Apparently they’re planning to make you scan your own groceries, put them in a bag then operate the credit card machine yourself! Trust me, if that’s the way you’re going Senor Woolworths, I won’t be buying from you.

In fact, if you really want my business, bring back the man in an apron weighing my flour and walking it out to the car for me. Seriously, I’ve had enough.

Even watching TV is hard work these days. Ring us if you’ve got a good story, email us your video footage, vote to keep your favourite person in the show. Aren’t the TV workers supposed to make those decisions? I thought I was just there to watch.

I what mean if people wrote who in newspapers you decipher made sentences yourself? It just wouldn’t work, would it?

Next week is Foster and Kinship Carers week in Queensland. And we need your help.

Tonight, 6200 children will spend the night out of their homes, because for some reason, they are not safe in their own beds. 6200. And we are desperately short of foster carers.

I used to go out with a boy who had a foster sister. Emily was nine and her Mum was a druggie. Whenever her mum went on a bender, Emily went to Matthew’s house.

Sometimes she’d just spend Saturday cooking cakes with Matt’s lovely hippy Mum, sometimes she’d call in the night because her Mum was passed out and sometimes, happily, Matthew didn’t see Emily for ages.

Emily had a mother who loved her, Matt’s family was just the support crew.

It doesn’t matter who you are, there’s an Emily on the Sunshine Coast who needs you too.

Call IFYS – 5438 3000

I hear the Dalai Lama's Australian tour in June will include a visit to the nation's spiritual capital, our very own Crocoseum.

The exiled Tibetan leader will be at Australia Zoo to launch Kindness Week, designed to promote harmony between man and the environment. I can’t think of anything funny to say about that, but I am planning to be there.

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