The houses
of parliament, your house of prayer, a MENSA group meeting. You would think
these are the places to go to to hear the top level of intellectual
conversation, well you would be wrong. The best , world changing conversation can
be heard at your local Kebab shop or favourite fast food outlet at the end of a
night out ( no free advertising on here!!!)
Just last
night I was in Manly saying goodbye to a couple of friends. It was a good
night, not particularly heavy, but after a few drinks we decided that before we
got on the ferry a little snackette would be very well receive by our stomachs.
So there we were in line at one of the afore mentioned fast food outlet trying
to decide what it would be that our heart desires at this hour to cure that
nagging hunger, when a conversation started up in front of us. I cannot tell
the difference between an American accent and a Canadian accent but clearly one
of the people involved in this conversation was an American whilst the other 3
were Canadian. The American in slurring, and not very well thought out English
was trying to convince the Canadians how bad Canada was. He obviously couldn’t
pick that they were Canadian either. That was until one of the people said ‘Hey
man you know we are from Canada right?’ Well the look on this American guys
face was a picture. I think what he heard was not ‘Hey man you know we are from
Canada right?’ but ‘Hey man I can’t wait to strip you naked, tie you to that
pole over there and tickle you.’ There was fear and contempt in that face for a
good couple of seconds before his over boozed brain worked out that they were
indeed just Canadians and for some reason hadn’t been offended by what this guy
was saying. Having processed what they
had said an not realise that he had got away very lightly he then proceeded to
ask where abouts in Canada they were from, ‘Vancouver’ came the reply. Well
that was it! He launched into an astonishing attack on everything to do with
Vancouver and how they can fix the place up, it was quite brilliant to listen
to. I’m pretty sure this guy was the guy to sort out world peace. Get him to
the Middle East or Afghanistan and the conflict would be over in minutes, he
has all the ideas.
Obviously not all the conversations had in these places
are as intellectually brilliant as that one. There are the drunken ‘ALRIGHT
MATE, GOOD NIGHT YEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHH’ shouts across the counter at the poor guy
serving, and the spontaneous flash mob of singers that seem to transcend on
these places weekly but it is great viewing if you are in a state where you can
remember it.
That brings
me onto my second point, yes folks this is a 2 parter. Is this discussion
really necessary in the food shops. You don’t know the people you are talking
to. You aren’t going to remember the conversation the next morning, you are
holding up the line of people that are seeking that greasy food fix that comes
with excess alcohol. I am not sure that it is needed. Yes I know I am slightly
contradicting my first point of it being fun to watch and it is don’t get me
wrong, but if you offered me getting my food in 3 minutes without the
entertainment or waiting 10 minutes in the rain outside because I can’t get
into the place for all the people in there are having world changing
conversations at volumes where they can be heard from outer space, then I’m
going to have to chose the first option. It’s hard enough to decide when you
all you have to worry about is whether you have enough money for a full meal or
not let alone trying to solve the worlds debt problem in-between massive burps.
Then when they get to the counter they never know what they want an their money
is dropped all over the place, another 5 minutes getting rained on whilst they
pick it up....great. So yes try and solve all the world’s problems, but do it
after you have bought your food and are outside, boom there you go, I am good
at solving these problems too. That is the thought for today, tune in tomorrow
for something different. Laters
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