Sat 25th Nov – Single Scoop
Today was the day Dad only ordered a single scoop at Bellingen Ice Cream. The flavour was coffee and almond. It was a good way to close old trauma, where holidays past have seen three people bravely take on the five flavour ‘plate’ of icecream. If you’re not crying by the end of your ice cream plate, you haven’t gotten value for money.
The Urunga board walk was quintessentially Mid North Coast. The river begins serenely, populated by a traffic of kayaks and stand up paddle boards, until widening into a treacherous expanse of ocean. The last time I came here Declan was having a silent tantrum about something and I never got to the bottom of it. Until today, where the river whispered to me that there was not enough Declan time on the family holiday. Declan, the river has seen all and it understands.
Best piece of internet read aloud by parents: Coles Christmas Bonus for all staff of $5. If that ever happens at an investment bank, there should be a television crew and a 4 part Netflix deal, or at the very least an erudite mini Youtube series about the destruction of a workplace via professional passive aggression.
The sweet ice cream experience was soured by Caitlin and Maria refusing to join in the experience. Obviously two or three scoops is much better value but I could only eat a single so I ate an expensive ice cream and missed out on trying multiple flavours. The most shocking part of the day was watching a couple eat two separate single strawberry cones. Why not get a double and share? They’re the ones in the photo with their backs to us. I think they are seated that way because they could feel my disappointment. Very much enjoying Caitlin in Coffs. Every day is fun.
I’m not even sure if a bonus like that in IB would lead to destruction of a workplace through passive aggression. I genuinely believe that there would be real aggression. I see a storming the capital situation – everyone pouring into work one day, storming in the CEO’s office with sharpened writing implements and cutlery from the break room and genuinely threatening the life of the person in charge 😛
Paul, Caitlin is always telling me to get a single scoop of Messina and I have to keep a close watch on the order to make sure we get at least a double. She is just so wrong about this and I think you should tell her that.
Declan. I worked out a long time ago that once Caitlin has made her mind up she can be very stubborn even in the face of overwhelming logic. Sometimes you just need to accept defeat and move on.