Fang or die!
I just spent a great week with my wonderful friends, Nick and Kate, who were up from Hobart. We go way back and have Shared Experience Galore! This week has seen the addition of:
1) Going to my first footy match (St. Kilda vs West Coast).Bit disappointing as far as result- but a good experience, nonetheless.
2) Seeing The Strokes. This was great! Often bands don't sound that good live, but these guys definitely sounded better. A tight unit with an abundance of intense charisma. We were in the back row, so it's possible that it was just a bunch of guys dressed up as The Strokes, miming...but I'm pretty sure it wasn't.
3) Watching the first 2 series of Black Books. We ran out of time for the 3rd. This Black Books experience came to be referred as 'doing Blackies'. It was usually 'Blackies and coffee'- like some sort of drug.
4) Eating lots
5) Reading the book of Philippians in Fairfield Boat Park and praying together.
Sayings were adopted, also:
1) The above mentioned: 'Blackies and coffee'
2) 'We're on holiday'- a reason for everthing
3) 'Hips don't lie!' - non-sensical comment
4) 'I'll park at the zoo' - my solution for everything
5) 'Fang or die' - the way I described driving in Melbourne. You are more likely to get beeped at for not taking off within a millisecond of the light changing green, not going through an orange/red light or driving too slowly, than you are for actually breaking a road rule. Hence, the saying.
Fun times!
posted by Trace @ 10:32 am
3 Comments:
Love the sayings. Hirarious.
Ohhh... seeing our holiday immortalised in words makes it seem even radder than it was! Hooray for cool fun!!
Remember, Tracey: Carlton. Sixteen big premierships. The only way is up!!
On this trip, Nick, Tracey and I also discussed the perils of escalator travel and the fear of death or injury by escalator that our mothers put into each of us. We scoffed at them. 'Ha ha', we scoffed.
Perhaps a little too soon.
At work today, I came across the following article in the journal Pediatrics:
Escalator-Related Injuries Among Children in the United States, 1990–2002
Here is a short(ish)excerpt from the abstract:
There were an estimated 26000 escalator-related injuries among children who were 0 to 19 years of age in the United States during 1990–2002, yielding an average of 2000 of these injuries annually (rate = 2.6 per 100000 population per year). The mean age was 6.5 years at the time of injury, and 53.4% of the patients were male. When comparing cases by 5-year age groups, children who were younger than 5 years had the highest estimated number of injuries (12000), as well as the highest annual escalator-related injury rate (4.8 per 100000). The most common mechanism of injury for all age groups was a fall, accounting for 13000 (51.0%) injuries. Entrapment accounted for 29.3% of all injuries and 36.5% of injuries among children who were younger than 5 years. Six percent (723) of injuries to children who were younger than 5 years involved a stroller, with most injuries occurring when a child fell out of the stroller while on the escalator. The most common body part injured for all ages was the leg, accounting for 27.7% of all injuries. Among children who were younger than 5 years, the hand was the most common injury site (40.6%), with hand injuries frequently occurring as a result of entrapment (72.4%). A laceration was the most common type of injury, accounting for 47.4% of escalator-related injuries. Amputations and avulsions were uncommon; however, 71.4% (595 of 833) occurred among children who were younger than 5 years.
Be afraid, people.
**The abstract can be found at:
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/
content/abstract/118/2/e279
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