Monday, August 24, 2009

Shop Till We Drop

I decided yesterday, rather than selectively repot my in-door plants, I should re-pot them all, the whole lot. It's been a few years since the last time it was done. So, Bunnings has become my new favourite shop. Usually, I go to Bunnings Hawthorn, but I thought today that, maybe, time wise Bunnings Nunawading would be quicker. You know, it's just one fluid movement out the freeway, rather than the umpteenth set of traffic lights between Fitzroy and Hawthorn.

Wow! There was traffic every where.

David says I shouldn't go to these places if I send back messages like this.

SMS. 13.37. This is a nightmare! Every bored, beige cunt without a life is on the road desperately looking for inspiration! – Christian

Porridge poured into tracksuit pants wandering around aimlessly. Fat, bloated and pale. I came face to face with the great unwashed on their home territory, and it wasn't pretty. Acres of obese flesh wandering acres of concrete car park. Fat little fuck children holding onto their parents swollen hands, as the elastic in their tracky dacks strains to keep it all decent.

Business has really won, hasn’t it? The great shopping pass time, it’s now recreation for men and women alike. And the Earth loses, grow that economy, mass produce more crap, ruin the planet.

The sausage sizzle in Hawthorn has all the different varieties of name brand sauce - tomato, sweet chili, mustard, BBQ, steak and several bottles of each for your convenience. In Nunawading, just two bottles of generic, tomato and BBQ. Not sure why?

It was nice to cross back over the great divide to the inner suburbs to see boys with hot arses in jeans that, actually, fitted them.


3 comments:

Unknown said...

Oh yes it gets worse the further out you go. Here's something to think about while chewing on a sausage out the front of Bunnings. We were discussing how a few years ago everything was really cheap and great value at Bunnings. Take for instance garden stakes, those metal ones. Let's say they were $3 each, much cheaper than the local hardware at $5.

Then after a couple of years they kept creeping up in price and now they are $9 each for the same thing and made in China.

But you know what, try and find a local hardware store anymore and if you do you just can't get them. Only Bunnings... fancy that.

Yeah we're being f*#ked up the butt well and good. Now we have your Costcos turning up... ah! commercial paradise. Sad thing is these "consumers" (and outer suburbs swill) are the ones reading the Hearld-Scum and MX every night followed by ACA and Today Tonight LOL. And to think Coles and Woolworths are just about to f*#k them and then us over next.

Gabriel said...

ooh you are such a snob. i really like the tone of your post. just the way i would have said it if i was there LOL....

FletcherBeaver said...

Ben – you gotta luv big business, it’s making the world a better place. So much so that in the not too distant future the number one killer of humans will be depression. Money makes everything better.
Gabriel – sometimes you come to the inescapable fact that you are face to face with something that is only on this planet to create landfill. Live long and prosper, I say. Good luck to them. I’ve just got to remember not to shop with them on the weekends.