A Trip to "Town"

There wasn't much work yesterday, Wednesday, so I decided to go into the city. I had a few things to do which I had saved up to get them over and done with all together.

I didn't want to take my car into the city so drove to the station and caught the train in. This was at 9.30 am and it's a totally different trip to the commuter trains early in the morning. The first thing I noticed was that it was one of the new trains...so quiet and clean. No graffiti, lovely clean seats...I wonder how long that will last. They obviously don't put these new trains on for the early morning commuters or when the school kids are using them. Wise thinking.

I had promised my granddaughter I would go to the Dept of Immigration to pick up a form she needed (long story, which I won't go into here...suffice to say, bureaucratic idiocy. Enough said?). Then I really needed a couple of new pairs of jeans and the shop that sells the ones I like are in the city. So I picked those up...and they had only gone up by $9 in the 10 or so years since I bought the last couple of pairs. Yep, they are very well made and worth the money.

Then I went to my old workplace to pay my friend Helen the money for our trip to the Toowoomba Festival of Flowers which is next month. (I'll post about that). Of course, I walked in and Helen, as a joke, had switched my old computer on and invited me to sit down and start working! Yeah right...

It was good to see the old crowd, even if they did try and get me back to work...including the doctors. However, I stood firm and told them in no uncertain terms how I felt about their suggestions.

I arrived back home at 3.00 pm, absolutely wiped. Now I know why I moved to the country. Another thing I noticed was all the shiny clean cars...unlike my dusty vehicle. Oh, when I lived in the city, my car was pristine, too. It lived in the garage all week and was only used for shopping on late night and to go visiting in the weekends. Now, I have to use it just to get to our nearest shop...about six km away...I would walk it, but it would take too long to get there and I would have forgotten what I wanted...