There goes neighbour ‘hood’!
NEW homeowner walked home recently from a night out.
It was a bit nippy so he had a hoodie pulled up.
Once home, he realised he’d lost his keys inside the house and was looking about for them with a torch.
Eventually found, he went to bed, only to be woken by a knock on the door.
He stumbled out to find the police at the door.
Seems a vigilant neighbour reported seeing a hooded man with a torch in the house and phoned in the “burglary”.
Our new homeowner, though initially bemused by the police rocking up, was grateful to have such alert neighbours.
His mother has taken this opportunity to remind him of her suggestion that he go around and introduce himself to the good neighbour.
He’s put that at the top of his list.
Roadworks irony
WHISPERS operative who makes the daily grind to Toowoomba through roadworks to and from Highfields can’t help but laugh at the signs held by workmen on the way up Mt Kynoch.
“Go slow”, or something close to those words, surely, is the height of irony when the traffic isn’t moving at all.
Slight addendum
WHILE much of the traffic on Mt Kynoch is all-but stopped, a second Whispers Operative would like to point out that the traffic in the lane due to end any second according to the six signs warning as much in the lead-up to the merge does anything but move slowly.
It seems there are quite a number of residents in the suburbs to the north who believe that using that lane to drive right to the top of Mt Kynoch at full speed while all the considerate drivers who merged 15 minutes ago are at a standstill, are complete geniuses.
Whispers has some news for those self-styled geniuses: there’s a good chance you’re probably just a jerk.
Call for help
WE’VE all probably had at least one of those heart-sinking moments when our trusty technological helpers fail us, and for most of us, the only logical thing is to call in reinforcements from our progeny.
One such Toowoomba daughter got a good laugh out of her distressed mum recently.
Despite being raised in an era when computers in schools just weren’t a thing and phones were firmly attached to the wall, this daughter was still mum’s go-to in cases of badly-behaved technology.
Luckily the query wasn’t too tough.
She got a panicked call from mum’s landline to inform her that her mum’s phone had clearly passed into the great iPhone dock in the sky.
Apparently there was a rectangle with a thin red line and a lightning bolt and everything went black.
No amount of button pushing would revive the poor thing.
“It must be flat, mum,” came the resigned reply.
The indignant mum ensured her daughter it had to be completely charged after being left plugged in the whole night.
Resisting the urge to roll her eyes so hard they were in danger of falling out of her head, the patient daughter thought to check whether the phone charger just happened to be turned on.
A few brief moments went by before a quiet “oh…” ensued.
Whispers tips
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