You may have noticed that the category i have selected for THIS particular blog is automotive....yes yes.....an adventural of the auto variety.
not auto as in the foe of manual - but AUTO as in for all things involving wheels n' shiz....
so today was going to be all about the adventurals of jess n' jelkie....i asked her out on a date - she's ma bestie but ain't no one else gonna ask me out on a freakin' date - let alone me ask anyone else out....So date was great....first we ate pasta in a lane way, then swung past the melbie centrah-lay to check out movies there (for some unknown reason jess avoided Nova @ all costs - this saddened me greatly, but thankfully the saddness was a temporary emotion...oh sorry...the story)
magically we ended up @ iMax after wittnessing a man eating a double whooper with cheese off the floor of tha tramio.....
BTW....i am soooo gonna organise a group of us to go down ta iMax one time and take lots of vitamin suplements and see a movie coz like this was the first time i'd ever been - and the WHOLE time i kept trying to catch the jelly fish and little amphibians swimming around me...wow.....hot sexy under the sea actions! its officially unofficailly ma frave!
anyway...many things happened today, the point of this post is now coming to view four pages later......we did stuff and had a great day. we parted ways. i got lost in cotton on as usual and out of nowhere heard ma belly rumble. "feeeeeeed me jelkie" it sang out from under ma layers....."ok ok ok" i replied pushing ma index finger into ma belly button....."sssshhhhhhhh!" this is quite normal behaviour for me, but aparently not for the sales assistant who was so weirded out by the movements of tha jelkie, she forgot to charge me for a pair of really REALLY girly earings.........yes i know......that's almost called stealing....almost......
so out of the store i skipped, looking forward to coming home and kicking back with ma Johnathan Safran Foer yo......i get to tha street of flinders and had a conniption like everyday i find maself standing between degraves and swanston.........bus or train.....bus or train......? hmmmm.
to settle the scores i usually walk up to the bottle-o and purchase a udie, then walk down casually in the hope that i've missed the bus and can catch the train and do the 2km walk home......alas a bus was approaching even before i could turn my brow in the direction of the bottle-o....dang....there will be no consumption of mid afternoon bevie for the jelkie on tha pee to tha tee-which btw guarentees u a whole seat because no1 wants ta sit next to u....because ur a rebel drinking on peetothatee...dang....
i looked at the bus number....350 it read.
sweet! i replied to maself of myselfs.
i boarded the bus.
i sat down
i began to read
i looked up again and i had magically found maself on vic. parade.....now instead of thinking "i am on the wrong bus" i opted for an easier statement and lazier realisation "we are just going a different way because it's a monday...."
i started off on the next paragraph.
i looked up again when i found maself on p(c)unt rd....a bus load of civilians were being ejected from their bus and had to board ours....it took me back to tha mother country for however a brief moment......if only there were caged chickens being carried on as hand luggage and babies being tied to the luggage holding racks - i would have sworn i was back in the lands of the cro's.
anyhoo. i started to stare out the window after reading a line that resonated within me....and lingered through the follicles of my everything.....when i stare i shut down. i stare and take in EVERYTHING but notice nothing.....yup.....until, and i should really take that back and capitalise that....UNTIL i realised we were turning onto a particular hwy...."ah-hem" managed to escape from between ma lips and into the direction of the lady sitting by me with a baby changing bag as her hand bag....."ah-hem" i repeated, this time poking her shoulder and waving ....
she takes out her headphones and brings her face right up into mine, and i swear ma brada....if i weren't fretting i wouldv'e gone her right then and there on tha bus - LISTEN TO ME WHEN I AM TALKING TO YOU WOMAN!
"Yes?" she asks in a matter - of - factly - stupid woman's voice......"Wha -wha-wha-where are wi-wi-we g-g-g-going?" i stutter in a panic stricken tone
"We are going to LaTrobe Uni....." she replies, seemingly all ner-ner-ner-ner-ner on my arse
"Oh, where's th-that?" i ask the bitchface mole....
"Well we're going down tha chandler freeway - basically going to heidelberg...."
"Argh! jelkie screams and jumps in her seat like something bit her on the buuuutox......but i can't go to heidelberg! i thought this was tha 250!!!!!"
lady moves away from me looking scared......
a boy who was on the bus with a large supply of plywood, a trolley and a hell of a lot of electrical cord materials asks me "Where do you need to go love?"
at first i hesitated in ma response, for i was not sure if he was going to offer to take me there on his magical aero-dynamical trolley equipped with a lot of electrical matter, but considering all the people around me seemed scared of my screaming/seat jumping actions, i thought i'd better reply...."i need to get to northcote....?"
cutting a long story short, because i mean REALLY>>>>>>>Can this be any fucking longer??????<<<<<<< he basically knew a lot about bus routes, street names and their nearest cross roads.....i think this had something to do with the electrical cord matter....hmmmm?
anyhoo, he motioned for me to get off the bus at a particular location because it was near darebin rd and i know that that is near the subway i went to on saturday to get a chicken footlong with ranch dressing and mayo - coz its a sexual conniption of the mouthal regions...........i got up to get off the bus, turned to him and said really really loudly...."thank you mr melways" and hopped off the bus after twirling ma finger in the air like i had a magical wand in my wand bearing hand....
i'm sure that was his real name - he nodded back at me knowingly....
so there i was...on a v.busy rd smiling nervously at the bus shelter before me.
i spent a while at that bus shelter, and the one across the st from it....because i couldn't decide upon which one to catch a bus from. i was lost. so i just kept going from one ta the other. i met an older couple as well, bill and margery. they didn't know where they were either, but bill had binoculars so we were able to establish i was near oriel rd.
thanks guys.......knowing ma nearest cross road wasn't enough though. no no..
i was cold
i was scared God damn it.
i was cold, alone and scared.........*meeeeeeeeeeeeep*
(now.....i like to occasionally place maself in a situation where i don't know where the funkadelly i am and then try and find ma way back home - but when its getting dark and ma stomachio won't shunt the finkle bump - thats a different story altogether and it has a lot to do with abandoment issues relating back to ma mama b and me getting lost in the k mart in the gardening section - all the hoses - so many hoses - they all looked like snakes and they wanted to eat me...no matter how hard i tried i kept seeing hoses - snakes - hoses - snakes.....where's ma mama b?
where's ma.....why is this man staring at me? - this extra bonus limited edition fear/question interupted ma trip down memoir lane......why is he looking around him, looking at me....shit its getting dark...shit shit shit! he's coming!
jelkie see's asian looking student.........runs to her.....man stops and stares.....jelkie starts talking to the asian looking student....asian looking student responds in asian sounding language.....jelkie keeps talking......asian student keeps talking.......man goes away - jelkie and asian looking student bow and part ways....
magically a 246 appears from around the corner rescuing jelkie after a fone call in desperation to Scream till ya lungs bleed, who advised her to cross the road. magically jelkie is on victoria rd
magically - jelkie appears in her lounge room
scream till ya lungs bleed hugs jelkie and rocks her to sleep, repeating "its gonna be ok jelkie, ssshhhhhhh.......shhhhhhhhh...."
moral of the story,......make a note of bus numbers prior to boarding - ALWAYS talk to asian looking people to avoid potential assults by weird men in fubu trackies....and never EVER EVER leave home without a packet of sultana's-because sultana's are GREAT!
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