Shopping trip gets distracted
Wife’s ‘firie’ encounter for good cause
WIFE sneaked out to Grand Central Shopping Centre one night this week with the intention of splurging her pay on a lovely new dress without telling “The Other Half”.
However, she ended up doing some impulse buying instead.
When she arrived at the shopping centre, cash in hand, she met “a lovely fireman selling 2019 calendars”.
“Eighty dollars later I have four calendars (firemen with kittens and puppies as well as Australian native fauna) plus a set of birthday cards – and no new dress,” the lass told Whispers.
“Warning to the women of Toowoomba – these men are so utterly charming and their products irresistibly good.
“You won’t be able to resist them.
“Sorry to the dress shops having to compete with this.”
The calendars are destined to be early Christmas gifts, she told Whispers.
RUBBISH TALK
GRANDMOTHER who prides herself in never indulging in junk food found herself driving through an international food chain’s drivethrough recently.
The 70-something had been driving her 16-year-old granddaughter from Toowoomba to the west and had pulled into Roma en-route to their destination just in time for lunch.
Struggling to find a quickstop cafe, our lass pulled into the drive-through with her 16year-granddaughter listening to music with headphones on.
The driver pulled up, leaned out of the window and proceeded to order a selection for lunch but received no response from staff.
It was only then her embarrassed granddaughter removed her head phones and advised her grandmother that she was actually talking into the rubbish bin.
Well, we said she’s new to the drive-through concept.
OOPS!
CHAP who usually meets with a group of mates for a Sunday session at a Toowoomba hotel advised his mates that he wouldn’t be at their gathering the following Sunday.
Asked why, he explained that it was his wife’s birthday that Sunday and he would be required at home on spousal birthday duties.
However, it was with some surprise when his mates saw the chap walk into the pub on Sunday to join them.
“I thought it was your wife’s birthday,” one of the group inquired.
“Nah,” the chap smiled, “Her birthday is tomorrow so I thought I’d come in today.”
He thought he’d got away with mixing up the date of his wife’s birthday after 23 years of marriage.
But his mates soon blabbed it to Whispers.
Happy birthday Mrs J!
THAT’S MY TEAM
WHEN an NRL player’s season is over, it’s obviously over and done with for the year.
Toowoomba junior now with the Gold Coast Titans was in the Garden City last weekend to support his old junior club in the grand finals at Clive Berghofer Stadium before taking in a concert in the sticks out Goombungee way Saturday night.
Walking over to grab a feed at the food stall near the stage, he stopped to talk with some old friends who were also attending the concert.
One of them asked who he thought would win the NRL semi-final that night.
“Who’s playing?” he nonchalantly replied.
Told it was the Dragons against the Rabbitohs, he simply shrugged his shoulders and said: “Really? I don’t watch it.”
The off-season diet must have gone out the window too going by the two handfuls of food he walked back from the canteen with.
JOB VACANCIES?
MIGHT be some job vacancies going at an inner-city hotel in Toowoomba in the near future.
Three staff, including one of the bar managers, put in their respective notices this week.
Watch this space.
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