Thursday #40 – kicked off this morning by sampling DTM’s
first ever attempt at an omelette…which tasted remarkably similar to the one I
had made for him the previous morning up at Surfer’s Paradise. Breakfast done I headed off to The BH&G
Fan’s house to pick up some sunnies she had sold for me on ebay and to hang out
some washing. Exciting times.
I headed back to pick up DTM and drive him into Chatswood
for a meeting with Centrelink…a proud moment for all involved. The Cabbie was mortified by this development
and refused to acknowledge that his son was now officially a dole bludger. With his next job search meeting scheduled
for 3 months time, I think we’re all hoping DTM will just abuse his transport
concession card and not actually need their payments. I busied myself with a trip to the post
office and a cheeky maccas stop while waiting for this Centrelink rubbish to be
over and done with. When it finally was;
we got some magnums, headed off to see The
Amazing Spiderman and weighed up how we were gonna pay for it. Did we use the free vouchers DTM had been
given for his birthday? Did we use some of the 10 prepaid tickets DTM had
bought last week? Did we use the free ticket we each had on our hoyts reward
card? No, no and no. Since all of these
would have incurred an upgrade fee for the 3D movie (a massive $3), we instead
used DTM’s staff card and crossed our fingers that the fact he hadn’t worked
there in 9 months wouldn’t ring any alarm bells. So far it seems like we got away with it…
A fun-filled trip to Kmart later, we were ready to head
home. DTM forked out $30 for parking and
argued that it would’ve been cheaper for him to get a cab. I insisted it wasn’t my fault that he had
offered to pay for parking and that had he not had a meeting to get money
off the government for nothing, we wouldn’t have needed to park for over 5
hours anyway. It was a traumatic drive
back to DTM’s as we somehow got lost (an achievement in itself given how
ridiculously straightforward it is to get from Chatswood to Forestville) and
struggled with torrential rain and peak hour traffic.
When we finally made it home, DTM cooked up his signature
dish (chicken and veg) and kicked me out so that he could get some work
done. I headed over to The BH&G
Fan’s house to check on my washing and say hi to The Marge. I finally headed back home to The ‘Bra
sometime after 10 and to no one’s surprise, found my entire house sound
asleep. Such party people. I unpacked my bag from The Gold Coast and
headed off to bed; happy that my Thursday had once again involved free movies
and ice cream.
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