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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 That Exquisite Andrew XXXXXX! Paradise Now, the movie that Erica, Sim and I saw on Monday night was excellent. It told the story of two Palestinian suicide bombers with a fantastic ending that I will not spoil for you. I recommend checking it out. It's worth it. Let's see, several interesting comments on the world of AJ recently: - After assisting a lady in registering an RSVP for a public lecture and telephoning her to confirm her reservation, I received note from two of my colleagues that on Tuesday morning, said lady waltzes into my place of work, interrupts two of my colleagues and proceeds to announce, quite loudly for everyone to hear, while pointing a knowing finger: "You tell that Andrew XXXXXX* that he is exquisite! He delivered excellent service to me and I want all to know about it!". Apparently she then turned on her heel quite promptly, flicked her shawl over her neck, straightened her hair and proceeded out of the office. My colleagues gave me stick about it afterward and we had a good laugh. One of them thought I put her up to it. When I explained the full story, it made sense... - On a tram home, a very fat, balding man who refused the generosity of a fellow passenger to sit down, proceeded to talk to two Japanese students about public transport and validating tickets. The female Japanese student was trying to validate her ticket the wrong way around, and as the fat, balding man was standing right next to the validation machine, he grabbed the ticket out of her had and said, "In Japan, you do the ticket the wrong way around. Here, in Australia, it goes the right way round". At the point, he correctly inserted the ticket before saying, "See". The lady nodded and thanked him for his kindness. The man continued: "You see, myself, I don't believe in validating the tickets. Once you buy them, that's it for me. That's as good as done. I don't believe in this validation business. Do you understand me? Do you understand what I'm saying to you?". At this point, I was flabbergasted. The fact that he didn't "believe in" validation, as if it weren't in his religion or constitution was just beyond me. He didn't even consider that he would be breaking the law with a bought, but unvalidated ticket. Secondly, the way he said "Do you understand me? Do you understand what I'm saying to you?" was very unfortunate. The student, while she was of Japanese descent did not appear to have any trace of a Japanese accent whatsoever and was probably as dinky-di as you or me. The fact that he presumed so much about her topped it all off. - At Melbourne Central Station tonight, I noticed that on the second most right validator heading toward the trains, the train validation machine (just where it shows a yellow light to insert your ticket) said "AJ". Someone had scratched the letters AJ into the plastic... Everything in its right place. * It sounds better when you say it with my surname.posted by AJ | 8:27 PM | | ||
