Tonight on the tram home after touch football I eavesdropped on a conversation between a rather slow sounding gentleman and a junkie. When I got on the tram the junkie was telling the slow sounding gentleman about a T.V. show about Australian crime families, which prompted the admission from the slow sounding gentleman that he hadn't watched television for two years (for "complicated reasons"), although the slow sounding gentleman quickly admitted that he'd in fact turned the television on two weeks ago, "Because I like watching Julia". By which he meant our current Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. Later the slow sounding gentleman, when asked by the junkie what he did for a living, explained that he had a website on which he sold "kitchen tools". The junkie was very insistent that the slow sounding gentleman should walk around town and offer his "kitchen tools" door-to-door to restaurants, and further estimated that "one in three or one in five" such businesses would be willing to buy said "kitchen tools" if offered them in such a situation. The junkie was very adamant that restaurants are always willing to buy top-quality "kitchen tools", although the slow sounding gentleman had previously admitted that his "kitchen tools" only sold for around A$10 ("I have to sell a lot of them"). Then the slow sounding gentleman got off the tram and an attractive young woman got on and sat opposite the junkie, who very kindly insisted that she sit there (it was a fairly crowded tram); the junkie then proceeded to lament to the woman that he hadn't had a girlfriend for ten or eleven years.
Meanwhile the tram driver was getting out of his little glass cabin at every stop and yelling jovially and in an unplaceable accent at the assembled commuters outside that anyone waiting for the 86 tram (this tram being the 96, which shares part of the route) should get on his tram, and he'd let them off at the point where the tram routes diverged. After doing this about half a dozen times he finally thought to explain that there'd been some kind of break-down on an 86 tram, and all subsequent trams on that line were taking an alternative route through the city. The tram driver seemed very pleased to be able to help so many people, even though for a long time a large number of those people didn't know why they were being offered such a service.
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