The tightest mate bar none

A shout out to Mr Frugal and his mate

I THOUGHT IT WAS A HOAX - THIS IS THE HIGHEST WE’VE GIVEN OUT. I COULDN’T BE MORE EXCITED IF I HAD WON IT MYSELF.

WILSONTON NEWSAGENCY OWNER CHRISTINE GRACE AFTER THE STORE SOLD A $2.32M OZ LOTTO WINNER.

WE CAN’T BELIEVE THE CROWDS THAT CAME OUT AND WE EVEN HAD PEOPLE BUYING TICKETS AT THE DOOR.

SPRING POLO EVENT GROUP DIRECTOR MAREE PARSONS AFTER THE POLO ATTRACTED A CROWD OF MORE THAN 2000.

FRUGAL chap who appears in these columns from time to time has been caught out again.

Known by his mates as one of the tightest people on earth with his money, regularly an argument breaks out among his group when it comes to his shout at the pub.

He and one particular mate were walking on Ruthven St on their day off on Thursday when the mate asked him if he’d been to a new bar in the CBD.

Mr Frugal said he had and took his mate in for a look.

It being Mr Frugal’s shout, he reluctantly handed over $18 for the two schooners of beer and the pair sat at a table and consumed same.

When the mate noted that the price of a beer was $9 a schooner at this particular bar as opposed to $5 at their usual local, he figured on making the visit short.

Mr Frugal was left dumbfounded when, waiting for his mate to reciprocate the shout when they finished their beers, his mate rose to his feet and said: “We may as well keep going, eh” and walked out.

Whispers hears Mr Frugal complained bitterly for the rest of the evening about the shout.

TALE OF TWO CITIES

OF ALL weekends. Toowoomba couple is taking in their first Bathurst only to report back that they’ve been stuck with inclement weather since arriving earlier in the week in Australia’s car racing capital.

Meanwhile, a Townsville resident picked this very weekend to make her first trip to Toowoomba.

A cold and damp welcome to you from the Garden City. Could be she’s the drought breaker with more drops forecast this weekend.

CARD TROUBLE

IT APPEARS even celebrities can have card troubles.

During the recent festivities of the Food and Wine Festival, a certain Whispers operative witnessed a well-known identity in strife at the bar.

Though it wasn’t because they had run out of his favourite beverage, it was due to the identity having card issues. Beep! Beep! Card Declined! It was only after several attempts, and a half-genuine offer to help the fellow by said operative, that his thirst was quenched when a relative came to his aid with funds.

HAVING A BALL

AS REPORTED in last week’s Whispers, one particular member of Toowoomba’s hospitality industry likes to visit an inner-city pub on his days off for a few quiet drinks and the odd game of table tennis.

He was devastated then to find the table tennis table packed up while the courtyard was under renovations.

To gauge his reaction, one of the bar staff bounced a ping pong ball in the court yard.

Upon hearing the ball, he rushed out to the courtyard like a puppy playing fetch with its master.

His pitiful look at missing his weekly games of table tennis eventually took a toll on staff who have since rearranged the courtyard to reerect the ping-pong table for him.

PUB JINX?

IN KEEPING with the hotel theme of this week’s Whispers, local chap is being accused of bringing a curse to his “locals”.

In his later teenage years, he became a regular of The Gladstone Hotel because the “Happy Knacker” used to sponsor the football club for which he played.

Living up the road from the Bellevue Hotel (later the Mort Estate), he also frequented that hotel over the years.

Later, when a friend bought and upgrade the old Country Club Hotel which became The Mill St Tavern, that then became his local.

As most people would now realise, The Gladstone Hotel is but a hole in the ground, the Bellevue is being transformed into a building of offices and The Mill St Tavern burned down.

Publicans now get nervous when he walks into their pub.

PANTS ON FIRE

OH WHAT a tangled web we weave... as the saying goes.

Looking to get out of a family gathering, local chap said he couldn’t make it as he’d booked a weekend away with a mate.

Unfortunately, one of his friends called the mate on that weekend to ask how the weekend away was going only to find him at home oblivious to any such weekend plans.