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red750

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  1. Only takes 500 passers by to drop $2 in the hat, and some of these street beggars get irate if you don't drop a note. They will chase you down the street. I know people who have had it happen. Fortunately I have no need to go to the city. I haven't been to Flinders Street for more than 5 years.

     

     

  2. Oh how things have changed.

     

    My father had a belt like linesmen use to climb power poles. Half a dozen lashes of that brought you into line. These days he'd go to jail for that.

     

    The principal at my high school had a cane about 3 ft long. You would often hear the swish of the cane if you were in the classroom next to his office.If you got the 'cuts', it was 3 strokes on the palm of the hand. A rap over the knuckles with a ruler was common. All now gone to that big blackboard in the sky.

     

    The mamby pamby little delinquents of today could do with a good dose of such discipline.

     

     

  3. This thread has had more drifts than Saturday night at the speedway.

     

    Ambulance costs. Here in Box Hill, Vic there are 2 hospitals on opposite corners, one public, one private. Walking time between the two = less than four minutes, allowing for traffic. Moving a patient between them requires an ambulance. Cost starts at $90. I paid an ambulance subscription while I was employed, can't remember how much it was, but since retiring and becoming a pensioner, ambulances are free. I never needed an ambulance while I was working, but had 3 trips since retiring.

     

     

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