I’m asking nice to please move over
I love going up to Maleny this time of year. Fresh air, clear skies, views that stretch… a fair way.
But getting there from the lower hinterland can be such a pain if you’re stuck behind a truck/tractor/bus. But worse than all that are the lunatics who don’t know how to act on the only overtaking lane up the range.
Case in point: the elderly lady who stayed in the right-hand lane travelling at about 40kph and who had the temerity to give me the finger when I honked her. To make it more infuriating, I had to spend the next 20 minutes behind her, fuming on the inside and squeezing the steering wheel so tight there is a permanent hand print on the wheel.
You might well say I should calm down, but I didn’t and I couldn’t and I don’t think you could either. Just stay left!
While on gas guzzling, I was reading a review about an economy flight to NZ and the reviewer was justifying the price, saying his plane was a good choice because it had lower carbon emissions than the ‘fuel-guzzling A380’. Good grief.
I’m stunned that anyone makes a choice about flying based in any part on carbon emissions. The questions travellers need to ask are: is it the best price, how long’s the layover, and what’s the food like? The rest is surely a joke.
Crime on a dime
Did anyone really expect the Premier to fall on his sword over crime rates? The fact the LNP apparently removed the majority of crimes ‘other’ because they’re victimless, and the fact that this helped the government sell its claims that victims are decreasing, would be funny if it wasn’t so not.
There’s been a couple of recent awful crimes allegedly committed by teenagers. Somehow these kids don’t seem to have been perturbed by the adult crime, adult time laws. Maybe they didn’t know about them?
What, are we seriously saying that kids don’t watch the news?