Bris-Vegas
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Brisbane,
Australia
Monday, November 7, 2005
Took a short bus to Brisbane after meeting some head the ball at the bus stop. We're standing there minding our own business and this freak of nature comes over to us (we just attract them).
He asked us where we were from and if we were travelling the world. So you do the polite thing and say yes, we're from Ireland etc and this is how the rest of the conversation goes:-
Freak: Yeah, I work for the Attorney General (waits for a reaction)
Us (well mostly J coz Tracy freaked): Oh right
Freak: Yeah, I'm an international intelligence officer travelling the world to check
out the dangerous hotspots and so forth.
Us: Eerr...
Freak: Are you guys going to Asia?
Us: Yeah, we're heading to Hong Kong.
Freak: Oh, that's okay - Hong Kong's more sociable. But the rest of it's really hot
right now you know
Us: Eerrr....
Freak: How do you like the weather here?
Us: Yeah, it's sweet.
Freak: Yeah, my field commander requested that I move back down to Canberra where we're
based but because I have 18 years of service and a bit of superiority I told him
where to go. I like the weather here too much. I told him I would release a
hydrogen bomb on his ass if he talked like that again ha ha ha...it's probably
just as well you don't know what I'm talking about.
Us: (nervous laugh - getting scared now).
Freak: Yeah, it's tough we can't have any relationships or friends because we can get
called at a moment's notice and then we have to be in some far flung corner of
the world.
I mean like I could be in a hot spot and we could request air support and you
have some 22 year old pilot flying 60000 ft above saying 'we should just blow
this place'. So there's me, on the ground with some jackass above me wanting to
level the place. Phew I get into some situations.
Us: Yeah (holy f@#$).
Freak: I mean we even have to get plastic surgery every 6 months just in case someone
recognises us. There was even one time I stood beside my sister and she didn't
even recognise me.
Us: Errr....I wonder what's keeping the bus.
Enter Swedish ladies lost and looking for directions.
Us: Bus is coming - get on quick.
Got into Brisbane (or as the locals call it Bris-Vegas) and the weather was awful. Place is pretty dull and not much to do there hence the irony. Spent the day doing laundry and reading. Nothing much else to report on here and no pictures.
