At the Dogs Bar Saturday night my former plot neighbour at The Vegout Community Garden, Dave, has had a few drinks and goes up to a loud group of blokes sitting outside.
Dave: “You know this place used to be about poetry.”
Yob: “What happened?”
Dave: “Hoppers Crossing.”
Yob: Yeah, that’s us…dick.”
…later
Dave: “I’m just glad nobody got stabbed.”
In which Victorian/Melbourne restaurants was I when I overheard/saw these these?
A: “She is thirty and a half years old and isn’t even married.”
B: “The thing about Nietze…”
C: “How do you do in Paris? How’s your French?” “How’s the self managed superfund.”
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Yikes. Your friend is lucky he didn’t get stabbed! I remember when I worked down in Melbourne and had to visit sales staff at shopping centres I managed and you were lucky if people in Werribee, Hoppers, Corio etc had all their teeth. The western burbs are seriously scary though apparently the Werribee zoo is pretty cool.
Well you obviously didn’t hear any of these things at Longrain. Its near impossible to hear what your fellow diners on the other side of the table are saying…
I have a sneaking suspicion that the comment about the hot Asian guy was me… at a fashionable Fitzroy restaurant…?
Longrain needs individual cones of silence to descend over each group.
As for Nietze – was that Friedrick Nietzche, or perhaps David Neitz, who after 300 games of footy for the Demons, was being discussed at the MCC’s Bullring where the brawl broke out on friday night?
The suspense is killing me……
Come on, post the answers!!
Hi Goldie,
I can assure you, the outer western ‘burbs are (slowly) looking up – I still have most of my teeth, but my thirteen kids aren’t doing so well… hehe… in all seriousness, things are getting better out here. At least in the newer suburbs. Thank God!
Here are the answers
A Grand Hotel Portarlington
B The Lakehouse Daylesford – Stickyfingers probably the philospher bearing in mind the location and sexual orientation.
C Fenix
D Yes, it was Kylie at Interlude. I’ve left the other comments about young cock out for the sake of modesty.
E Matteos
F Donovans
Anna, glad to hear the western ‘burbs are looking up. Everytime I drive down to geelong – suprisingly often – it’s the guys weaving across the road in old V8 utes with industral strength roo bars and whip areils that really scare me. I’m sure they are pussies on the streets though.