When browsing through the “bargain bin” section of a local computer store this evening I discovered a substantially reduced product that was seemingly irresistible at first glance - a Norton’s security product reduced from $139.00 to $0.99. Wow! What a bargain. The second glance was the killer though - a SPOTD storeperson had written “stolen” on the box. The contents *were* actually missing. So what was it they were selling? Yes, an empty cardboard box for $0.99…

I wished them the best of luck in their endeavours.

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A six-way tie for SPOTD yesterday with a group of 18-25yo bogan gutter-dwellers on the tram. Yes, public transport again - I know, I know.

For about twenty minutes we were regaled with three females giving us their full-volume renditions of Missy Elliot and Destiny’s Child songs. As the sexual explicitness of the lyric increased, so did their volume.

Over this din, three males boasted to one another about how much jail time each of them had done, which were the “real jails” and which were just “places to stay” and who had known which member of the local criminal network for longer due to their coinciding incarceration in early life.

One of them clearly felt the group was not being offensive enough through their shouted use of the f-word as a noun, verb or adjective every third word so decided to light a cigarette and start smoking. The others did not go quite as far, only rolling their own in preparation for when they got off the tram. Of course, it might have been a bit difficult for them to smoke whilst they swigged from their obviously spiked bottle of Coke.

Upon alighting from the tram, four headed to the footpath while the other two stood on the road in front of the waiting traffic and debated which side of the road they should head toward. Despite the fervent hopes of all other commuters (okay, just me then) that they’d be run down like dogs, they eventually ambled off to the nearest footpath toward the bottle shop.

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