Originally Posted by Geelong Gent (Post 4790482)

Yes mate but they were customs:sneaky:

Originally Posted by Pollyana (Post 4787872)

Todays extravaganza didn't involve the usual "your British passport is illegal in Australia" fiasco, it centred around "I'd like to buy this please"
"Theres no price on it"
"well, could you please find out the price as I'd like to buy it"
"theres no price on it"
"well could you look it up"
"Its new"
"well could you look it up please!"
"That means I have to find the invoice"
"Could you do that then please, I don't mind waiting"
"WHY? You don't REALLY want it do you?"
"Well, thats why I've been standing in the queue!"

The woman running the next till said that I had been so patient I should get it for free :D which wound up Mrs Pom Hater even more then ever!!!

After 30 minutes it turned out the price was $5.95, which was what I'd suggested in the first place, and the other woman said she couldn't understand my patience as she'd have hit her colleague by that point :D :D

This round to me I feel......!

Originally Posted by sme (Post 4791255)

What was it you bought ? Must be good after all that hassle :)

Originally Posted by Wendy (Post 4791268)

A diary for next year......1988 :D

Originally Posted by sme (Post 4791255)

What was it you bought ? Must be good after all that hassle :)

Originally Posted by Pollyana (Post 4791418)

pmsl!!!



Smiggle stuff....as anyone who has discovered Smiggles will know, its zany bright coloured, (very un-Australian) stationery! I was trying to buy a bright pink stapler with staples and highlighters to match!! :D

Originally Posted by Pollyana (Post 4791418)

pmsl!!!



Smiggle stuff....as anyone who has discovered Smiggles will know, its zany bright coloured, (very un-Australian) stationery! I was trying to buy a bright pink stapler with staples and highlighters to match!! :D

Originally Posted by The_Effys (Post 4792147)

Back on topic ;)

I'll probably get slated for it, but ... WTF is it with all these roadside shrines popping up everywhere in the UK :curse: have all the graveyards disapeared or something :blink:

God forbid someone I know pegs it in a car accident, but the last place I would want to remember them, is by a filthy polluted roadside! You can't go from one side of our town to the other without passing by one of the little shines :frown:

I'll probably get REALLY get slated for that!

Originally Posted by Wendy (Post 4792152)

Possibly, because they do it here too :D

Originally Posted by The_Effys (Post 4792147)

Back on topic ;)

I'll probably get slated for it, but ... WTF is it with all these roadside shrines popping up everywhere in the UK :curse: have all the graveyards disapeared or something :blink:

God forbid someone I know pegs it in a car accident, but the last place I would want to remember them, is by a filthy polluted roadside! You can't go from one side of our town to the other without passing by one of the little shines :frown:

I'll probably get REALLY get slated for that!

Originally Posted by The_Effys (Post 4792147)

Back on topic ;)

I'll probably get slated for it, but ... WTF is it with all these roadside shrines popping up everywhere in the UK :curse: have all the graveyards disapeared or something :blink:

God forbid someone I know pegs it in a car accident, but the last place I would want to remember them, is by a filthy polluted roadside! You can't go from one side of our town to the other without passing by one of the little shines :frown:

I'll probably get REALLY get slated for that!

Originally Posted by LoobyLoo! (Post 4793105)

I'll probably get slated for it but, some of the peeps on this forum are realllllly cynical! ( and grumpy and miserable:D )
We found this site after deciding to emmigrate all excited as you are and what do i read? a load of people telling you to save ya dosh and stay in the uk:(

Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack (Post 4792379)

Ain't that the truth!

Originally Posted by Wendy (Post 4793150)

I WILL get slated for this but, apparantly it's called "balance" :D