nullyvoidness

Fist and chips.

When walking into a local fish and chips shop — or indeed, any shop — I don’t expect my entrance to be greeted with much of a reaction from any staff or customers inside. At most, perhaps something ranging from perfunctory politeness to mild indifference.

So it was a strange surprise to walk into the fish and chips shop near my local gym and sense a palpable wave of relief from just about everyone there.

Was business so bad that the ...

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There is an incredibly noisy family of dumbshit feral neighbors from hell living next door to me. In addition to the constant noise, frequent parties, loud music, death threats and abuse, there’s also the joy of having various members of the family screaming at each other in the driveway — which unfortunately runs right outside the bedrooms of my place. For some reasons these fuckwits seem incapable of getting into their cars and driving off without spending at least half ...

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I was driving home from a night out, still relatively early for a Saturday — well, just after midnight on Sunday, to be exact. It was turning out to be a particularly unpleasant drive through the western suburbs — and coming from someone who grew up in the western suburbs, that’s saying something! There was a surprising amount of traffic for that time of night — I think I had the misfortune of being on the road during peak hour for dickhead ...

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So one day I get an SMS from an unknown number:

Hey guys it’s Megan, this is my new number :) x

While I appreciate "Megan" letting me know her new number, I’m pretty sure I don’t actually know anyone called "Megan". I wonder briefly if this could be some girl I interacted with at some point in the past? Someone I met via online personals? Or in a bar? With one or both of us possibly drunk ...

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I am with what is generally considered the worst mobile phone network provider in Australia, in terms of mobile broadband at least, although arguably after the superior coverage (and nose-bleeding expense) of Telstra, the remaining networks all seem to be furiously competing be the crappiest. Free market competition at it’s best, I’m sure.

I was fairly certain my contract had expired, but I rang up to check. Just in case. My phone call must have triggered some kind ...

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I had my first ever experience being rear-ended earlier this year — a rear-ending of the car accident variety, not that other kind. Not that there’s anything wrong with the latter, and I’m sure some might like nothing better than being rear-ended by an 18-year old blonde, though I personally would prefer not to be, regardless of the variety of rear-ending. The 18-year old blonde in this case was a dopey guy who had just gotten his license, and ...

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