http://mooquack.com A heady mixture of travelogues and hatred of stupid people. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:35:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Di and I voted simultaneously on the SPOTD today when they decided to get in touch with us.  At 5:30am, the phone beside the bed rang loudly once and then didn't ring again.  Seriously, if you're ringing people at that hour of the day, check the number BEFORE you dial, ... http://mooquack.com/2008/03/26/think-before-you-dial/ The people at Birdseye frozen foods recently had a promotion in a local supermarket - buy one packet of frozen fish and get a packet of frozen chips for free.  Sounds good.  Sounds like a meal solution right there, doesn't it?  Until you get home and realise that the fish ... http://mooquack.com/2008/03/23/fish-n-chips/ Standing in line at the supermarket tonight, we were waiting to load groceries onto the conveyor belt at the checkout and the line was taking forever to move forward.  All the other checkouts were full, but ours was particularly slow.  We watched with annoyance as others joined the checkout line ... http://mooquack.com/2008/02/17/smokers-annoy-me-2/ Just had the following conversation with a SPOTD who lit up a cigarette directly underneath the No smoking in this area sign hanging outside my building.  It was reasonable that he may not have seen the sign because it was hanging from the ceiling and the path he'd taken to ... http://mooquack.com/2008/01/29/smokers-annoy-me/ Walking down the street this afternoon I was in a hurry and moving at my top walking pace which is quite fast. I was preparing to cross the street, looked over my shoulder at the traffic to make sure it was clear and then began to cross. I ... http://mooquack.com/2007/12/13/setting-a-good-example/ I attended a seminar for work in the city this evening and walked down King St on my way back to the office. Over the past few years King St has changed from hosting a lot of nightclubs to hosting a lot of "gentleman's clubs" so there are always ... http://mooquack.com/2007/12/12/he-thinks-hes-from-the-country/ As a follow-on to yesterday's SPOTD report, I attempted to locate the details for the Hungry Jack's head office via their website, without any success. It turns out that to view the website, you need to have a very recent Flash plugin installed in your browser. I definitely ... http://mooquack.com/2007/11/26/hungry-jacks-website/ There are several reasons you may choose to work at Hungry Jack's, though apparently "I take pride in my employment" is unlikely to be among them. The most likely reason is likely to be because you're 15-18 years old and it's a way to earn some cash. The downside of ... http://mooquack.com/2007/11/25/cleanup-at-hungry-jacks-restaurant/ One of the Awesomes drank so much last night that she was still rather unwell in the morning. Rather than miss out on the game drive she boarded the truck with everyone else but seemed to forget that the track would be rather bumpy. Ten minutes into the game drive ... http://mooquack.com/2007/09/26/thats-like-so-retch/ Still in Tanzania, we managed to end up (against our wishes) trapped for six hours in a 4WD vehicle exploring the Ngorongoro Crater with Zoe (yesterday's SPOTD) and three girls we referred to as "The Awesomes". It was a hellish experience, primarily due to the fact that they were incredibly ... http://mooquack.com/2007/09/25/thats-like-so-awesome/