WTF: Eggsclusive, sticking the boots, aquaman
This week, we dig our boots into some poor surf coast parking ettiquite, reveal an bombshell eggsclusive, and figure what aquaman was up to at Kardinia pool.
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EGGSCLUSIVE
What the shell?
That was the collective response at WTF HQ when a unique tip came past our desk.
“Eggs are underweight,” the message read.
“Didn’t notice until after I’d used a few.”
Attached was a series of images of eggs, with some on a scale.
Advertised on the packed was 12 eggs weighing 800g.
Seven eggs remained, he did say he’d enjoyed a couple, coming in at 331g.
Assuming his scale is in fact correct, and using some rudimentary maths, we can conclude the eggs weigh, on average, 47.3g each.
Times that by 12, and you get … a measly 567.6g!
A scandal of epic proportions!
Given the trouble we here have had scrounging for a dozen over the past few weeks, we feel your pain.
STICKING THE BOOTS IN
We know getting a seaside park over summer can be a challenge but one Torquay beachgoer has really put their soul into the search … wait, sorry, we meant soles.
Yes, this person has attempted to reserve a much sought-after spot close to the sand using a pair of workboots.
Apparently they think laces keep places. The boots were definitely not left there by mistake, they were carefully positioned squarely in the centre of the parking bay.
In possibly the busiest summer in history, we have seen all manner of attempts to secure a park as crowds descend on our coast but this certainly takes the cake.
We’re pretty sure this WTF (wielding tradie footwear) doesn’t pass the pub test.
All the focus this beach season has been on cabana-gate – the practice of staking a claim on some sand by pitching a sun shade and then leaving – but it appears we also need to be on the lookout for brazen boot blocking.
LAMENTING LINES
Supervising a learner driver can be a tough gig at the best of times, what with young driver’s constant tailgating, lack of head-checking and ability to turn corners at remarkable speeds.
Navigating roundabouts is something that requires a special brand of patience, with a new driver behind the wheel sometimes being overcautious to enter the traffic and other times heading straight in without looking right.
What makes it harder, reports a correspondent with learner-driving aged kids – especially when you’re trying to get more night driving hours into the VicRoads log book during daylight savings – is navigating city streets where the reflective line marking is either a spaghetti of moving lines or they’ve completely faded after decades of wear and no regular maintenance.
There’s streets with wide lanes that suddenly become narrow, double lanes that can appear and disappear as fast as a speeding Uber Eats delivery driver and then the wide, central Geelong grid streets where even a centre median line seems to have disappeared.
While calling in a professional driving instructor helps to instil confidence and reinforce correct driving habits into a young driver, how about the authorities get out the old line marking machine once in a while to show everybody where it’s safe to drive.
AQUAMAN
Geelong council’s own Aquaman has joined the anti-algae squad at the Kardinia Aquatic Centre.
Covered head-to-toe with a black wetsuit, face mask and snorkel, along with a lifeguard cap, the mystery figure was hard at work alongside lap swimmers in the complex’s Olympic pool on Friday last week.
Armed with a brush on a long pole, he scrubbed the length of two middle lanes, trying to get rid of persistent green algae that has plagued the South Geelong pool since late last year.
WTF reported at the time that pool staff had revealed scuba divers were part of the algae eradication team.
The City of Greater Geelong denied then that it was using divers, but clearly lookalike snorkellers are OK.
Aquaman will have an extra workload this week after the Sunday storms left the Kardinia pools littered with tree debris.
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