no name, just service

I'm going deaf and I'm easily distracted. So I don't enjoy waiting and hoping to hear when my name is called.

I've just been round the lake. I add a short detour to a cafe and order an iced latte.

The girl asks me something, I'm not expecting a question, she has to repeat, "what name is that for?"  I say, "It's for me, the person standing in front of you." Okay, not very polite, so I add, "I probably wouldn't hear you anyway." When the drink is ready, it's handed directly to me. Good service.

Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper

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A good pun is its own reword.

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suggestion, noted

Thank you for the suggestion that, when walking, I should drop a trail
of breadcrumbs and trail a very long string.
So if you see someone looking lost, wearing a gradually unravelling
jumper and being followed by hungry pigeons, it may be me.


Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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A good pun is its own reword.


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walking home

Deb doesn't trust me out of her sight, she thinks I'll get lost. We've
set up our phones so Deb can see my location on Google Maps.
Walking home from Kings Park is okay: I just need to leave Kings Park,
walk down Bagot Rd to Selby, catch the bus, I'll be home, no worries.
Or I can get to Cambridge St, catch the 92 bus, I've done that before.

I leave Kings Park.,walk down Bagot. Past a familiar shopping centre
which tells me where I am.
So I walk down Rokeby.
I check Google Maps on my phone. My dodgy vision means that Maps makes
no sense to me.

. I'm surprised when I pass the shopping centre again. I walk down
Rokeby again. Find Bagot again, realise that I've turned round, I am
now going back towards Kings Park.. Deb phones, I no longer show up on
Google Maps. Strange.

I manage to get to Cambridge St, walk along looking for a bus stop for
the number 92 bus. No luck. Later, Deb finds that the 92 no longer
runs.
No worries. I finally find Selby. Use a public toilet. As I come out a
bus passes, I'm too far away, I miss it.
I walk the rest of the way home.

So yes, it takes me three hours and 10km for a five km trip. But I
make it. Finally. No worries.
I can navigate by myself. I don't know why Deb worries :-)


Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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"Knowing the direction doesn't mean you have to go." ...


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