LYNNE SANDERS-BRAITHWAITE
TAXI CABS AND OP SHOPS IN BRISBANE
THE HYPHENATED WOMAN HAS COME TO TOWN
Went into the City yesterday. Getting a little resistant to getting out of The Gully so i SMS-ed the Black and White cabs again. Just SMS the word HOME to 19773222 and they were here as usual TOUTE SUITE. This time it wasnt business service. It was a young woman from Logan Village who found this Red Hill area rather odd. I didnt ask her why.
She was driving her mothers cab . Only gets about one day a month on it and is a full time stay at home mother. She LOVES taxi driving. Doesnt know why anyone would be on the dole when you can drive cabs. And she tells me they are CALLING OUT for more drivers. Had me wondering for a moment or two in the Spring HIll section - thought perhaps i would be wise to forego the pension and drive cabs.
We used the newest satellite tracking device - Now i understand a little more about them. Makes me wonder even more about why the Yellow Cab from the Hospital kept saying turn left all the way along Coro ( Coronation Drive ). Who was the satellite trying to get rid of into the Brisbane River. Izzy , Me or the " I've only been driving for one week" taxi cab driver ?
The Lass from Logan Village told me the satellite is right up there guiding us every step of the way. Doesn't a satellite have anything else to do ? How does it do that ? Trillions of people doing all manner of things - and there is the satellite guiding each one of us along our way. Still coming to grips with it somewhat so i am. Brings to mind Cargo Cults and Aphrodite worship for me. So it does. I find this City - rather astonishing. Later in the day on the 375 I again encountered the THANK YOU DRIVER - calls from the exiting passengers. Even initiated my own THANK YOU DRIVER - as I alit down the bottom of Given terrace. Seemed to annoy a rather large young lady who seemed to think i had pre-empted her on the button pushing and thanking. I'm sure she pushed the button first and i don't think that means she automatically gets to alight first or call her farewells.
I looked a good deal older than the young woman and had my shopping trolley as well as the umbrella covered in roses which my Mum gave me from Anchors Wharf in Urunga years back for a birthday of mine. So I looked not only older but much ODDER.
I did the meeting in the beautiful church at the corner of Ann and Creek Streets. getting back to the Cab - the Satellite was telling us to go right and down past Roma Street - to get to the church on Ann and Creek - but - just like the 85 year old driver last week - who was looking for a good woman to cook for him and "BET YOU DON'T BELIEVE HOW OLD I AM AND I'M STILL DRIVING CABS"- yes i did believe how old he was and i'm not good and i cannot cook.
Well just like him , the young woman from Logan Village - didn't go that way at all.
I dont understand why its telling me that - said she.
and crossed a couple of lanes to go through Spring Hill. Same as the old gentleman. I prefer the Roma Street way myself. The buses go the Roma Street way but the old Brisbanites seem to prefer Spring Hill which always costs me about $2-$3 more.
Must toughen up and INSIST in a 'local red-Hillian " way. Ann and Creek Please - take the ROMA STREET WAY if you will !.
I know how to do that in Sydney and mebbe its time for here as well.
So i did the meeting. Great church. soothes the soul and I think of my old Father when he was neither a father nor old - sitting in Pitt Street Congregational in Sydney and listening to great orators of the day as he put it - and I think singers as well. Probably TENORS.
I felt a little like the BagLady of my dreams and nightmares - and one man gave me the LOOK. But it works for me. I had Woolies visions in my mind.
The other thing I had done this time was actually study one of my hundreds of bus timetables and worked out the closest stop for the 375 to PADDINGTON. Down in Adelaide Street - at David Jones. Can do - so i thought and DID do. One moment anxiety when the Bus Stop weren't there - but spotted th sign saying -PERMANENT BUS STOP CHANGE - 35 METRES ALONG with an arrow pointing clearly in the correct direction.
And along came the 375 with a driver I am willing to bet is a REAL Brisbane Bus Driver and NOT one of the new CASUALS who are taking the title too literally.
this one welcomed and warmed my day. Hence 5 minutes later i was there - usurping the young large lady in farewelling .
So when it comes to following THE SATELLITE - why the disobedience ? I've done my 10 month long Ignatian online retreat. I know the urge towards disobedience when one doesnt UNDERSTAND why one is being told to do something by a power greater - a god by any other name - but thats the whole core of it. JUST OBEY. Found out the other day that Mother Theresa hadn't FELT THE PRESENCE OF GOD for about the last 15 or 50 years of her life - but she didn't take off into Spring Hill.
Didn't take any fotos cause I am in my animated GIFS phase which usually passes. I set off up Given Terrace. I am EXTREMELY fond of this area. No matter what the young lady thinks. She was a lovely young woman mind you and i tipped her $2-20 or so - for the Spring Hill deviation. As for ME - I love the Terraces. Towing the trolley behind me. Floral skirt and Rose umbrella. Off we went with an op-shopping vision. This is OP SHOPPER PARADISE.
Did well too.. St Vinnies in an old building. We almost rented a flat right next door. Missed it by an inch. Iz was going to set up out front and play music. We had PLANS. We always have PLANS - the Iz and me. They offered it to us later but by then we were in The Gully. Tried 3 garments on. It said THREE only so i tried them. One was a leopard skin blouse to go with our flannel sheets - The brown T-shirt fitted. The brown shorts fitted. The Cheetah shirt fitted but when I went to pay for them the TAG was missing from the cheetah.
I do not know why i think other people think I'm committing some crime. Im paranoid about legal accuracy. But all i have to do is go into a dressing room at Vinnies - lose the $5 tag and I'm waiting for the Brisbane Police.
Mind you - despite the ancient tales of Queensland police - including one of them hunting hippies through the canefields near Port Douglas in 1973 - I have to date fund them as charming as the bus drivers - and I have one tale from a family member of their perfectly chamring treatment of him . The only cruelty displayed was sending him to Mirikai Drug Rehabilitation for an hour or so to watch the Grass Movie.
So I take the blouse to the counter where the assistan who reminds me of a mediaeval and terrifying monk - a MAN OF FEW WORDS - gives me THE LOOK. Nevertheless he sold it to me. Even while i was trying to explain that I did not cut the tag off. Didnt want to be in the same mess as the woman that the barrister attacked at the Salvos on Glen Rosa. THE WOMAN AND THE BARRISTER IN THE SALVOS
THE Man Monk didnt chase me out into the carpark and nor did he challenge me or take my details. Just cut the other tags off - took my $15 - wihout a word and off I went. he did come out the front as I was crossing LaTrobe Terrace - but no further than the front doorstep. Then I ventured into the E Retro shop which the Challenge Organisation run. Made very welcome there. Parked the Trolley at the front - same as in Vinnies and down I went into the complex of rooms which house all manner of treasures. Picked up bags. Bags and shoes are fetishes with me. secondhand ones too. Dont seem to matter what I do . They dont go away.n So now i have not only the Mac holder but now a red Esprit and a black Esprit . Ones that go over my shoulder to leave me free for the City. Crosswise over the shoulder that is.
Back down on Given terrace i had already hit Fundies Organic Foodstore and actually had a successful visit for the first time. Might be the place where the trolley and the umbrella work in myh favour.
welcome to wednesday said the gorgeous young man
i do not think i have arrived there yet - said I .
and it developed into a conversation about the Libran Sun and Moon which are presently in conjunction and DARK. Has odd effects on me as a Libran and him as an Aries. Same as Iz. Other customers gathered and when I left with my Byron Pies and Humble Pie pasties at the bottom of the trolley - I was in good humour.
Tried the other retro shop on the way. the one where i got my sunglasses when we were first considering moving into Paddo. Nothing took my fancy. Wrapped the walk up with a visit to the charity shop for the CHILD WITH BRAIN INJURY - a fetching New Zealand suit. For me. and Pleasnt women who didn't take me for a thief at all and back past the Chinese shop where we acquired our round table with the gate leg. and Four Chairs. A woman there walked up to me and - turned to show me the back of the shirt she was trying on. HANGS BEAUTIFULLY - said I in a mature way. and she was DELIGHTED. Went right in and bought it she did.
And then i walked on up Enoggera and home. Was going to do the grocery shopping at woolies but SMS-ed Iz at UQ and he wanted to go to Ashgrove and get cranberries and blueberries so i didnt need to.
She was driving her mothers cab . Only gets about one day a month on it and is a full time stay at home mother. She LOVES taxi driving. Doesnt know why anyone would be on the dole when you can drive cabs. And she tells me they are CALLING OUT for more drivers. Had me wondering for a moment or two in the Spring HIll section - thought perhaps i would be wise to forego the pension and drive cabs.
We used the newest satellite tracking device - Now i understand a little more about them. Makes me wonder even more about why the Yellow Cab from the Hospital kept saying turn left all the way along Coro ( Coronation Drive ). Who was the satellite trying to get rid of into the Brisbane River. Izzy , Me or the " I've only been driving for one week" taxi cab driver ?
The Lass from Logan Village told me the satellite is right up there guiding us every step of the way. Doesn't a satellite have anything else to do ? How does it do that ? Trillions of people doing all manner of things - and there is the satellite guiding each one of us along our way. Still coming to grips with it somewhat so i am. Brings to mind Cargo Cults and Aphrodite worship for me. So it does. I find this City - rather astonishing. Later in the day on the 375 I again encountered the THANK YOU DRIVER - calls from the exiting passengers. Even initiated my own THANK YOU DRIVER - as I alit down the bottom of Given terrace. Seemed to annoy a rather large young lady who seemed to think i had pre-empted her on the button pushing and thanking. I'm sure she pushed the button first and i don't think that means she automatically gets to alight first or call her farewells.
I looked a good deal older than the young woman and had my shopping trolley as well as the umbrella covered in roses which my Mum gave me from Anchors Wharf in Urunga years back for a birthday of mine. So I looked not only older but much ODDER.
I did the meeting in the beautiful church at the corner of Ann and Creek Streets. getting back to the Cab - the Satellite was telling us to go right and down past Roma Street - to get to the church on Ann and Creek - but - just like the 85 year old driver last week - who was looking for a good woman to cook for him and "BET YOU DON'T BELIEVE HOW OLD I AM AND I'M STILL DRIVING CABS"- yes i did believe how old he was and i'm not good and i cannot cook.
Well just like him , the young woman from Logan Village - didn't go that way at all.
I dont understand why its telling me that - said she.
and crossed a couple of lanes to go through Spring Hill. Same as the old gentleman. I prefer the Roma Street way myself. The buses go the Roma Street way but the old Brisbanites seem to prefer Spring Hill which always costs me about $2-$3 more.
Must toughen up and INSIST in a 'local red-Hillian " way. Ann and Creek Please - take the ROMA STREET WAY if you will !.
I know how to do that in Sydney and mebbe its time for here as well.
So i did the meeting. Great church. soothes the soul and I think of my old Father when he was neither a father nor old - sitting in Pitt Street Congregational in Sydney and listening to great orators of the day as he put it - and I think singers as well. Probably TENORS.
I felt a little like the BagLady of my dreams and nightmares - and one man gave me the LOOK. But it works for me. I had Woolies visions in my mind.
The other thing I had done this time was actually study one of my hundreds of bus timetables and worked out the closest stop for the 375 to PADDINGTON. Down in Adelaide Street - at David Jones. Can do - so i thought and DID do. One moment anxiety when the Bus Stop weren't there - but spotted th sign saying -PERMANENT BUS STOP CHANGE - 35 METRES ALONG with an arrow pointing clearly in the correct direction.
And along came the 375 with a driver I am willing to bet is a REAL Brisbane Bus Driver and NOT one of the new CASUALS who are taking the title too literally.
this one welcomed and warmed my day. Hence 5 minutes later i was there - usurping the young large lady in farewelling .
So when it comes to following THE SATELLITE - why the disobedience ? I've done my 10 month long Ignatian online retreat. I know the urge towards disobedience when one doesnt UNDERSTAND why one is being told to do something by a power greater - a god by any other name - but thats the whole core of it. JUST OBEY. Found out the other day that Mother Theresa hadn't FELT THE PRESENCE OF GOD for about the last 15 or 50 years of her life - but she didn't take off into Spring Hill.
Didn't take any fotos cause I am in my animated GIFS phase which usually passes. I set off up Given Terrace. I am EXTREMELY fond of this area. No matter what the young lady thinks. She was a lovely young woman mind you and i tipped her $2-20 or so - for the Spring Hill deviation. As for ME - I love the Terraces. Towing the trolley behind me. Floral skirt and Rose umbrella. Off we went with an op-shopping vision. This is OP SHOPPER PARADISE.
Did well too.. St Vinnies in an old building. We almost rented a flat right next door. Missed it by an inch. Iz was going to set up out front and play music. We had PLANS. We always have PLANS - the Iz and me. They offered it to us later but by then we were in The Gully. Tried 3 garments on. It said THREE only so i tried them. One was a leopard skin blouse to go with our flannel sheets - The brown T-shirt fitted. The brown shorts fitted. The Cheetah shirt fitted but when I went to pay for them the TAG was missing from the cheetah.
I do not know why i think other people think I'm committing some crime. Im paranoid about legal accuracy. But all i have to do is go into a dressing room at Vinnies - lose the $5 tag and I'm waiting for the Brisbane Police.
Mind you - despite the ancient tales of Queensland police - including one of them hunting hippies through the canefields near Port Douglas in 1973 - I have to date fund them as charming as the bus drivers - and I have one tale from a family member of their perfectly chamring treatment of him . The only cruelty displayed was sending him to Mirikai Drug Rehabilitation for an hour or so to watch the Grass Movie.
So I take the blouse to the counter where the assistan who reminds me of a mediaeval and terrifying monk - a MAN OF FEW WORDS - gives me THE LOOK. Nevertheless he sold it to me. Even while i was trying to explain that I did not cut the tag off. Didnt want to be in the same mess as the woman that the barrister attacked at the Salvos on Glen Rosa. THE WOMAN AND THE BARRISTER IN THE SALVOS
THE Man Monk didnt chase me out into the carpark and nor did he challenge me or take my details. Just cut the other tags off - took my $15 - wihout a word and off I went. he did come out the front as I was crossing LaTrobe Terrace - but no further than the front doorstep. Then I ventured into the E Retro shop which the Challenge Organisation run. Made very welcome there. Parked the Trolley at the front - same as in Vinnies and down I went into the complex of rooms which house all manner of treasures. Picked up bags. Bags and shoes are fetishes with me. secondhand ones too. Dont seem to matter what I do . They dont go away.n So now i have not only the Mac holder but now a red Esprit and a black Esprit . Ones that go over my shoulder to leave me free for the City. Crosswise over the shoulder that is.
Back down on Given terrace i had already hit Fundies Organic Foodstore and actually had a successful visit for the first time. Might be the place where the trolley and the umbrella work in myh favour.
welcome to wednesday said the gorgeous young man
i do not think i have arrived there yet - said I .
and it developed into a conversation about the Libran Sun and Moon which are presently in conjunction and DARK. Has odd effects on me as a Libran and him as an Aries. Same as Iz. Other customers gathered and when I left with my Byron Pies and Humble Pie pasties at the bottom of the trolley - I was in good humour.
Tried the other retro shop on the way. the one where i got my sunglasses when we were first considering moving into Paddo. Nothing took my fancy. Wrapped the walk up with a visit to the charity shop for the CHILD WITH BRAIN INJURY - a fetching New Zealand suit. For me. and Pleasnt women who didn't take me for a thief at all and back past the Chinese shop where we acquired our round table with the gate leg. and Four Chairs. A woman there walked up to me and - turned to show me the back of the shirt she was trying on. HANGS BEAUTIFULLY - said I in a mature way. and she was DELIGHTED. Went right in and bought it she did.
And then i walked on up Enoggera and home. Was going to do the grocery shopping at woolies but SMS-ed Iz at UQ and he wanted to go to Ashgrove and get cranberries and blueberries so i didnt need to.
I love this City.
On Enoggera , passed the girl from the E Retro running for her bus. A car honked and a young man hopped out - saying I want to ask you a question. Where is the RedHIll SAlvos says he.
On Enoggera , passed the girl from the E Retro running for her bus. A car honked and a young man hopped out - saying I want to ask you a question. Where is the RedHIll SAlvos says he.
You mean the biggest op shop in Brisbane - thought I. the One JB told me about. The one with the Rehab ? says i . yes - says he and the Warehouse. Well I drifted off a little - it being one of my dreams. Haven't been there - says I. but i KNOW where it is. GlenRosa Road. Turn around. Turn left at Musgrave and then turn right about 2 streets down. I think it even has a turning lane. Why wouldnt it ? the BIGGEST OP SHOP IN BRISBANE. With a nice manager i think - according to the Westside News.Who says
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