Two bee or not two bee? Oh my goodness

Manager gets a buzz out of her work

ROYAL Hotel bottle shop manager Sam certainly gets a buzz out of her job.

Unfortunately, at times that buzz can be more than she can cope with.

Recently, a hive of bees took up residence just outside the bottle shop’s front door.

Now, that wouldn’t ordinarily bee a problem but Sam is allergic to bee stings and so is very wary when she hears the buzz of the little honey makers anywhere near her.

Last week when a couple of the buzzers ventured into the bottle shop, the drive-through had to be closed for 10 minutes while colleagues ushered the flying intruders back outside back toward the hive.

CAMBOOYA lass who refers to herself as “Farmeress Debbie” contacted Whispers hoping to convey a hearty thankyou to a woman who had provided her with a charitable moment this week.

She had been at the Oh My Gosh store in Northpoint where she had bought a chicken waterer but when her card had not worked at the counter she had gone to retrieve cash.

Upon her return, she was told the woman who had been behind her in the store had paid for the item.

“I tried to find her to thank her but I couldn’t find her,” Farmeress Debbie told Whispers.

“I just wanted to say thankyou and to tell her that the chickens are very happy.”

Billy the Kid and JFK

THE most watched thing on television this week had to be THAT tackle by Billy Slater on Cronulla winger Sosaia Feki.

You couldn’t help but not see it, footage of the alleged “shoulder charge” was replayed ad nauseam on just about every news bulletin from Fox Sports to Playschool.

However, at least some of our local wags got to show their grasp of history.

When one footy follower put up on Facebook “Fair dinkum! This tackle has been analysed more than the JFK assassination in 1963” it prompted quite a response, including:

* It was Cam Smith from the grassy knoll. Joel D

* Yet “Lee Harvey Slater” got away with it this time. - JD

* CIA, FBI, Cubans, Mafia, LBJ involvement for sure. - GB

Turning the table

HOSPITALITY worker enjoys nothing more than going to an inner-city Toowoomba pub on his days off and having a few cold ones and a game of table tennis.

Each week he meets up with mates who he begs for a game, even though he usually loses.

One bloke in particular always refuses to play him.

However, this week when the mate found out that the pub had to close down the table tennis table in the courtyard because renovators were storing equipment there, he marched into the bar and saddled up beside the table tennis fanatic.

“Okay, I know I knock you back each week when you ask me for a game of ‘ping pong’, so let’s go have a game of table tennis,” the mate said.

The lad jumped off his bar stool with a broad smile and accompanied his mate to the court yard where he found a load of equipment and no table. He then realised he’d been had!

He’s also not happy that the table will be in storage for three weeks.

Hot reporter

WHO said journalism couldn’t be a physically demanding job?

Certain reporter from a certain Toowoomba newspaper was covering a story this week but realised he didn’t have a file photograph of the subject building about which he was writing.

So, showing initiative that belied his normally lazy approach to physical activity, he set off on foot to walk from the inner-city office all the way to the other side of Queens Park — in the heat of the middle of the day (about 26 degrees).

He snapped the shot and then set off on the walk back to the office by which time he was quite sweat drenched.

It was only when he arrived back at his desk and fired up his computer that he found a staff member from the subject building had emailed him appropriate photographs to go with the story.