In the supermarket tonight two Safeway employees entered our aisle and one showed the other the location of a particular product. The one who had been shown the location thanked the other and then asked for more assistance:

SPOTD: Do you know where the barley sugar is?

Staff 2 (confused by the reference to the item in singular form): The barley sugar?

SPOTD: I looked with all the other sugars and I couldn’t find it.

Staff 2 (realising what they were asking for): Do you mean barley sugars?

SPOTD: Maybe it’s in health food? I’ll go look there.

And off wandered the SPOTD leaving the other staff member and us quietly giggling.

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Heading home tonight I got off the tram to buy some groceries then went back out to the tram stop to wait for another tram to complete my journey. As I waited I watched as a woman came back to her car to discover she had a parking ticket for parking in a 4pm-6pm clearway. I was rather pleased with this since I don’t see why people insist on stopping in the clearway “just for a minute” to go do some shopping / pick someone up / go to the ATM and cause a bottleneck for the entire peak hour northbound traffic. Most frustrating so it was nice to see someone getting a traffic infringement notice.

The driver looked quite irate at receiving the ticket and, evidently figuring that the day could not get much worse, decided to light up a cigarette and have a smoke instead of driving off and clearing the road. Cars were honking their horns at her as they approached her vehicle because she was presenting herself as a target - not only blocking the clearway but casually leaning against her car whilst she inconvenienced others. This made many drivers (and myself) rather frustrated so I decided a little karma was called for. At the end of her cigarette she inadvertently made her day worse (and my day better) by dropping the cigarette butt onto the footpath, stomping it out and getting into the car and driving away.

It was a simple matter to record the necessary car registration details and then lodge a report to the EPA litter line for her actions when I got home. Given the fine for the depositing a cigarette butt on the ground before getting into a car is more than $200 and the parking ticket would be closer to $120, she’d have been much better off driving away sooner and not blocking the clearway.

Yes, I am a rotten sod…

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We decided to go to the cinema tonight to check out ‘Eragon’.  It’s been out a few weeks so was not a particularly popular session with less than a dozen people in the theatre.  One couple sat in the row in front of us, a few seats to the left of our seats, not long before the movie previews began.  For the duration of the previews and pre-movie advertising the boyfriend continuously sent and received text messages using his mobile phone.

However, whilst he did turn the sound off on his phone he never stopped using it for the duration of the entire movie.  All the way through the movie he lit he and his partner with a ghostly white glow from the mobile phone screen as he sent and received text messages.  Even as the credits rolled and he stood up from the seat he continued to send text messages walking out of the cinema.

To my mind, he displayed all the atributes necessary to be considered my SPOTD - paying $9 to go see a movie with his girlfriend and then paying attention to neither for the duration of the movie.

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