Two Toowoomba girls acting up in Hollywood

copped a bit of Toowoomba hospitality when a couple of ladies from the Garden City took over a cake store at Universal Studios this week.

“After a couple of hours sitting at Moe’s Bar, we decided to help out selling the last few Simpsons donuts for the day,” writes our Whispers operative.

“The souvenir store owner had three large chocolate donuts left to sell at the end of the day.

“I said to him ‘give me your microphone mate, I’m in sales, trust me!’

“He reluctantly handed over his microphone and I started the most epic sales pitch of my life on how amazing these chocolate donuts were to the thousands of tourists leaving the park.

“Within 10 minutes we’d sold the last three donuts.

“Meanwhile, the store owner was in the corner laughing — not sure if it was our accents or the fact that two crazy Aussie chicks had taken over his store.”

DATE CLAIMER

THERE’S no denying the power of coffee when it comes to juggling parenting, business and life in general, as one Toowoomba mum found out.

With business booming and balls in the air everywhere in the approach to one of the busiest times of the year, our overworked mum was filling out a form in a busy public office.

She’d skipped the coffee and her brain appeared to be wrapped in a thick layer of primordial ooze as she found herself Googling what year it was.

This, in itself, would have provided a bit of a laugh for her friends, but it got worse.

She was Googling whether it was 2020 or 2021.

Apparently she can add time travel to her impressive list of skills.

TOUGH TIMES

SEEMS the drought has started to bite at the Highfields Fitness and Recreation Centre.

Some members are wondering why the centre now chargHOLLYWOOD es members for instant coffee that has been free for more than a decade.

The problem, our Whispers operatives think, must be the cost of the hot water for the urn. Time’s are tough, indeed.

COURT OUT

GROUP of young students touring the Toowoomba Courthouse got to see - and hear first-hand the raw unscripted evidence of a courtroom.

A 33-year-old man was appearing by video link from one of Brisbane’s prisons to plead guilty to a range of offences for which he was being sentenced.

Obviously, though all in court could see him, he had no way of knowing that a group of school children were observing proceedings from the public gallery.

Had he have known, perhaps he may have been a little more discreet when expressing his surprise when the magistrate sentenced him to extra jail time.

Certainly, his loud cry of

“Oh Sh*t!” might not have

been as clearly audible had he known the average age of his audience.

STAND OFF

SON of a truckie showed his reversing skills when he was driving down the ramp of the Grand Central car park only to

be confronted by a woman driving a car in his direction on the wrong side.

A stand-off ensued until our man worked out that the woman, by her hand gesturing and confused facial expressions, had no intention of reversing back down the ramp, so he gingerly

reversed back up and around the boom gate.

He’s not quite sure how the lass got to her destination from the position she was in.

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