musings

Day off today. Took DB and Shôn into work. Zoomed back on the freeway and wrote letters to the grans and to Anne. John and I explored the basement where the washing machines are. What a hole! 6 ft ceiling and rat bait on the floor. Dusty and dark.

At about 3pm we set off to pick Brian up from work. Took us ages to get there, in the sweltering heat. Passed through DB’s route area. He can keep the extra money he makes because it looks a really “heavy duty area”. Brian was a bit peeved at having to wait so long for us, but he wasn’t mugged or anything.

We went downtown to fix up insurance. Dumb John had forgotten his driver’s licence and car registration details. Still we got cover for $60 per month. I can’t drive because it was another $30 dollars for an Under 21. Premium includes $1 uninsured driver insurance in case we’re hit by same, and $1 passenger liability. Picked up our car from multi-storey where they park your car for you and bring it down again.

In the evening we arranged to meet some girls that John had met. Inevitably it was Fottenbotten’s where we ended up. I could not help smiling all the time because Brian pretending to be English, as Mike had had to do, to get into the bar. He sounded just like Cary Grant.

The girls said they had their suspicions about our true origin but we convinced them in the end. I was surprised when they started buying as rounds of drinks - not the done thing at home but, it seems, perfectly OK here. It was “Ladies’ Night” here anyway which meant half price for girls. Brian described them as a “sweat hogs” ie slightly overweight. But they were nice people and they even invited us to dinner at their apartment. Left about 12:30 because DB came back from work feeling ill.

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