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Speaker 1: Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. Now, Patsy,
Speaker 1: you got caught with the parking fine yesterday.
Speaker 3: I don't get me started, but passes.
Speaker 2: I think in this city there are parking signs that
Speaker 2: are impenetrable, undecipherable.
Speaker 1: Four to five different signs. Yeah, it's when there's.
Speaker 2: Like the crest of arms, the Herald, where it's up
Speaker 2: four quadrants. You're like, with no training, with no formal training,
Speaker 2: how I want to know what are the different clauses
Speaker 2: that I'm looking at here? It's like a legal contract
Speaker 2: in a different language, isn't it? But your one is
Speaker 2: one of those split down the middle with the no
Speaker 2: parking sign.
Speaker 3: All right, I see what you're saying, but let's put
Speaker 3: it into context. One o'clock in the afternoon, half asleep,
Speaker 3: been up since the middle of the night, and obviously.
Speaker 2: Walking up that hill again with that sack of wooden
Speaker 2: bare feet in the snow. But since midnight.
Speaker 3: Mine was playing tricks yet again, and I seriously thought
Speaker 3: I was in the right, I thought, No, I thought
Speaker 3: it was unusual that I got to park right out
Speaker 3: in the front of a cafe. I was meeting the
Speaker 3: love God for lunch yesterday at Williamstown.
Speaker 1: Oh lovely.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was just one of those opportunity rings me. Hey,
Speaker 3: I've got a spare twenty minutes, half an hour, let's
Speaker 3: meet for oh yeah, for you know, get a lunch,
Speaker 3: and how's your father and so, oh my.
Speaker 1: God, restaurant.
Speaker 2: Suddenly they're in the kitchen, in that meat locker.
Speaker 1: And right out the front, and Bob's your uncle.
Speaker 3: Right out the front is the park, which I thought
Speaker 3: was really unusual.
Speaker 1: Now I know, why are you always got to be suspicious?
Speaker 3: A damn loading zone? And I parked there very fully, confident.
Speaker 3: And when I went in and met Chris, I said,
Speaker 3: you never believe I've got a park right out the front,
Speaker 3: right out the front. It never happens. And then came
Speaker 3: out and the damn ticket blowing in the.
Speaker 1: Break more than your lunch, more far more.
Speaker 3: Than the lunch. I could have flown on a lear
Speaker 3: jet to Paris and had lunch.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: I was so annoyed. I thought, Oh, how stupid. I
Speaker 3: just did not interpret it.
Speaker 1: It's correctly, it's crystal clearly. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't want to be rude Patsy, but this is
Speaker 4: just two signs. The top says loading signs seven am
Speaker 4: to one pm as Monday to Saturday. From there you
Speaker 4: just goboard's one pm Monday to Saturday.
Speaker 1: A child could read this.
Speaker 3: I didn't see that.
Speaker 1: Okay, well you can't have looked at it.
Speaker 2: You must just dump that car there, thinking I work
Speaker 2: in showbiz, I'll park it where I want.
Speaker 1: And I threw the keys at somebody. Where's that valet? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably some poor guy wants to unload some fruit
Speaker 2: and veggs for the place and now has to go
Speaker 2: on and do laps or something.
Speaker 3: And that all those peaches and that it was awful,
Speaker 3: and it was kind of on a funny bit of
Speaker 3: a road where there's like a bend and either side
Speaker 3: of it obviously is normal parks. I don't know what
Speaker 3: I was thinking. It just did not compute in my brain.
Speaker 2: It is what I would say they need to do
Speaker 2: in this country to save the suburbs.
Speaker 1: Right from online shopping, it's really hard to park at
Speaker 1: your local places.
Speaker 3: Yeah it is.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the answer is, but it's making
Speaker 2: it really hard. This is why they run the risk
Speaker 2: of people going online, because we're just lazy and time staff.
Speaker 2: It's a nightmare. You've got these narrow little streets. Trying
Speaker 2: to park is an absolute nightmare, isn't it bad?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: It is?
Speaker 3: And you always a small business, Yes, I feel really
Speaker 3: really sorry for them because everyone's going to the major
Speaker 3: shopping malls. This is a beautiful little strip William gorgeous. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and you know that's where you'll find those shops that
Speaker 3: aren't like the big multinationals, all the little boutiques and
Speaker 3: just struggling business owners who God knows.
Speaker 2: We've got to hang on to that because one of
Speaker 2: the lovely things about this country is all the suburbs
Speaker 2: in Melbourne right are different.
Speaker 1: Yes, I really really like that.
Speaker 2: They've got their own little mum and pop stores and
Speaker 2: businesses that have been in those communities for decades, right,
Speaker 2: and obviously during that really got damaged, not them aunt
Speaker 2: there anymore.
Speaker 1: So the ones that.
Speaker 2: Are really really they're part of the community. They know you, yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, and they ask they start to know like
Speaker 2: you because they see you a lot like most weeks.
Speaker 2: They know what you've been through in your life and
Speaker 2: what's happened, and we really need that. That's why the
Speaker 2: well the last domains of an actual community now is
Speaker 2: that because some of the old pubs are dying out now,
Speaker 2: no one goes to church and so that connection with
Speaker 2: someone those local shops is really really important. I don't
Speaker 2: know what the answers, but they need some way where
Speaker 2: it's just easier for us to dump the cars without
Speaker 2: fearing of I can't read this parking sign.
Speaker 1: I just go click and collect.
Speaker 4: At least take the parking signs completely idiot proof.
Speaker 2: Now I'm having a go at Patsy having some midday befuddlement,
Speaker 2: because this is exactly what happened to me yesterday at
Speaker 2: one o'clock when I terrified an old lady.
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Speaker 2: So Patsy had her midday fusion the essay I had
Speaker 2: perfuddlement at midday. You're right, Patsy. It's with these hours
Speaker 2: and the amount of years doing them that that sort
Speaker 2: of one till two is the gray zone. You can
Speaker 2: just wig out. My family no, not to even call
Speaker 2: me unless they really need to. My wife will begin
Speaker 2: if she does come, and then have you had your nap?
Speaker 1: And I go, no, all.
Speaker 2: Right, call me back when you work it out. And
Speaker 2: you've had a cup of tea. So there needs to
Speaker 2: be a buffer zone. You're bad to come out with hibernation. Anyway, Yes,
Speaker 2: I was running some errands and I didn't realize at
Speaker 2: the time it all drifted and I was in the
Speaker 2: gray zone, and so I was returning to my car.
Speaker 2: I wasn't returning to my car. I was returned to
Speaker 2: a car exactly the same color as mine, not exactly
Speaker 2: the same make or model, but exactly the same color,
Speaker 2: a mid sized suv. I rip open the door. It's unlocked,
Speaker 2: and thinking I'm getting in my car. Well, suddenly an
Speaker 2: old lady in the passenger seat, and I mean a
Speaker 2: really old, frail lady actually shrieks. I really scared, as
Speaker 2: I would do, because you know, there's all these car jackets,
Speaker 2: and suddenly looks like there's some devilishly handsome, roguish one,
Speaker 2: a charmer, a charmer roguish one, a rakish one, right
Speaker 2: is in the car some English cat. Excuse me, I'm
Speaker 2: so sorry. So two things happened. She actually was oh
Speaker 2: my god, no, she was actually really, I really did
Speaker 2: scare her. At the same time, I'm thinking we're part
Speaker 2: just down the road from an age care home, and
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, oh, this poor old deer, I'm now going
Speaker 2: to have to try and explain this isn't her car
Speaker 2: and take her back to the unit where there's probably
Speaker 2: some alarm going right now. Then I realized in a minute,
Speaker 2: this isn't the badge of.
Speaker 1: My my.
Speaker 2: I'm the only confused doddery fole here.
Speaker 1: Going to take you back to your where there's no
Speaker 1: alarm being wrong for my disappearance.
Speaker 2: They're like, oh, how do you explain your way out
Speaker 2: of that one?
Speaker 1: To the lady, I actually went bright red, was so
Speaker 1: I know, I was, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2: I thought this was my car and she just didn't
Speaker 2: understand because I think she was very old and she's
Speaker 2: very confused and actually really scared. She was doing that
Speaker 2: thing like leaning back. The worst thing I saw my
Speaker 2: last is of her clutching double handed her handbag.
Speaker 1: That's the first thing you'd go for thing, and it
Speaker 1: did look like a blinger one.
Speaker 2: I'm not the half of me, did think and won
Speaker 2: if you some cash in there by myself something money's
Speaker 2: tight at the moment, I could just you could spit,
Speaker 2: spend me a honey or something in there. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I was just I really was like I was so
Speaker 2: confused my car and I was like, my car is
Speaker 2: too up, and she was like trying to look and
Speaker 2: as I then got into my car, I was like
Speaker 2: looking back to her and she was on the phat
Speaker 2: to somebody and I thought, hopefully that's just like someone
Speaker 2: who's like dumped her there, or it's on the places
Speaker 2: it might be pulled over if I accidentally kidnapped an elderly.
Speaker 1: And this was just like a dry run. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm very confused these hours.
Speaker 2: We can't reaparking signs or what car we even getting into.
Speaker 1: I should be driving from that time. The Christian Connell
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