Whinge of Week

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INCONVENIENT

Supermarkets – grrr! You can’t find what you are looking for, you can’t find an attendant, then you have to serve yourself! What happened to customer service? My theory is the staff are hiding and having a laugh at you trying to open the small plastic bags in the fruit and veg aisle. When not doing that, they’re swapping the products around to have a chuckle at you trying to locate the milk and cat food. This is why many stores are open 24/7 – to allow time to escape.

CLEAN GREEN

Here in the bush we love our local footy games but, although there are bins nearby, the spectators are terrible litter bugs.

I’d love to start a ‘Keep our grounds beautiful’ campaign to encourage some country pride. Good idea. I can’t understand why spectators admire seeing a goal being kicked from 20 metres away but don’t even try to hit a rubbish bin in front of their noses. So spread the word, just not on leaflets. You may end up with even more litter.

TRICKY ISSUE

I’m not looking forward to Halloween in a couple of weeks. Why do we encourage children to dress up in scary costumes and beg neighbours for lollies? Because it’s fun, they’re normally supervised and kiddies love pretending to be different characters. So do many adults, even my tight friend Meredith. Every year, she pretends to be the same thing – not at home. Kids who yell, ‘Trick or treat!’ are giving her one too many options. In the interests of fighting childhood obesity, she eats all the lollies.