They (my co-workers and boss) completely floored me with their generosity. Dawn, who I worked with closely, bought me a couple chocolate mousse for my last day, due to the fact I became immensely addicted to the chocolate mousse there. I'm telling ya, it's better than chocolate bars. She also bought me a nice card, which everyone signed and sent me a nice note on the back of the Tuck Shop menu! Then my boss sent me home with a whole bunch of qualification stuff, her name and number for a reference plus PRESENTS! And then, since it's easter holidays all the food had to go... so I came home with a whole box full of fruits/veggies.
These people are the sweetest.
Sean didn't even get a "goodbye" when he left his terrible McPukes job.
Me in my Tuck Shop uniform! Lolololol... Sooooo many kids come for those minties you can see on the very right.
My co-worker Dawn. It was just her and I working in the Tuck shop.
Dawn, Norrie (my boss) and I. I had to give my uniform shirt back!
Soooo sweet. Sometimes with some of our experiences here I end up thinking "Australians suck!" but then something like this happens and I'm all "Australians are the best!" But really, they are very generous. I wish Sean had a fraction of my good fortune in this job.
Another story from the past couple weeks: Sean and I decided to go to the pet shop!
Soooo, it's after work and I get home at 2:30. Sean takes a bit getting ready, since he had just woken up due to his night shift schedule. We decide to go to the pet shop which is a bit away. One of the public use bikes here were gone and I didn't want to pay for bus trip there and back, so we decide to walk there and catch the bus back.
All good, I think.
The FIRST thing that went wrong was that I had brought some food home for Sean, knowing he would be hungry as soon as we start going, and I forget it at home.
No big.
Then it ended up being a LOT further than I thought it would be, and it took us over an hour to walk there! Sean needed some food, so we stopped by a bakery beside the pet shop when we finally arrived and got him some food. He was eating it and I looked over to the pet shop and the lady there was moving the mats. I said "Ohh nooo, we walked all the way here and they are closing up!!"
Went over, looked at the hours and I couldn't believe it was 5:00 and they close at 5:30. "Oh, you're open for another half hour right?" "Yeah, but are you after anything? we close right at 5:30 on the dot."
So right away we feel rushed. I wanted to play with the critters and pretend I wanted to buy one but we couldn't now! Sooo disappointed. They didn't even end up having kittens in the shop!
We spent 10 minutes in the shop then went to catch the bus.
We found the stop and of course, the bus passes us before we get there. No big, I think, I know a couple more pass this spot.
Another one passes us while we're walking.
"You gotta be kidding me. We're gunna have to wait AGES now!"
Ended up catching the next bus only 15 minutes later and I had to ask the bus driver where we could get let off. "We need a stop near Martyn St, but I haven't taken this bus before and I'm not sure where the stops are."
So the busses here run by "zones" The more zones you go through the more money it costs. I had been wanting to only pay for one zone, which was all we needed to get dropped off close to there.
"So your final destination is Martyn St?" "Yep"
He ends up charging us both for 2 zones and giving us a transfer ticket. He tells us where he lets us off we have to catch the 123 bus and cross the street. I got confused, as I just wanted to go close to Martyn. But he already gave us the ticket and everything, so whatever.
Then we pass a bus stop right beside Martyn 5 minutes later. I said to Sean "oh we could have gotten off right here". Then we pass the mall, and then we're going further and further away!
So we ended up going right into the bus terminal in the city, which is like a 30 minute walk home. The 123 bus comes every hour. When we got let off we went to look at the schedule and we had just missed the 123 by 2 minutes. TWOOOO minutes!
I was crabby by now. Sean was feeling tired and would rather wait for the next bus than walk.
There was a little mall right by us so I said "Lets go look around at least, it's better than sitting here for another 45 minutes." "Okay."
Looked around, still had ages to go. Sean said "I could use a beer store right about now." "Look, there's one right there! Lets go!"
So we go in and take our time and buy some cider.
We went outside and our bus was THERE! It was the one that comes 30 minutes later and it wasn't on the bus schedule. We have to RUN for it and we made it but maannnn I would have been pissed if we missed it!
So we get home and it's late. 6:30 and I'm crabby. All that for a wasted trip to the pet store.
But the disaster day doesn't end there. We had to do some laundry and we were washing all the bed sheets. All good, but we had to use the downstairs dryer for the first time. The problem is, it's night time by the time we're putting it in the dryer and we can't see anything outside. Sean puts it in but the dryer is upside down! So he puts it on "warm" instead of "hot" and nothing would dry for the first hour and a half. Then he puts it on hot for another hour, still not dry.
It ended up taking over 4 hours and a few things were still damp. I ended up passing out on our blanket with no sheets or pillow cases. Sean had to wake me up to make the bed and everything.
AND I didn't have enough to eat for dinner so I was extra cranky!
DISASTER day.
BUT! I have some cute pictures from the pet shop!
"rawr"
They had these HILARIOUS looking puffed up chicken things:
It kept following us and going "bawk bawk bawk".
They sold chicks there! They were cute but I thought "aww they're probably for egg making to eat."
So! 4 days from now I'll be in Melbourne!
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