Coconut Joan » something i saw

Leaves in water

joanium — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:41:54 +0000

Damjan and I were walking home after dinner on Monday. It was 10pm and still hot from a 40°C day. At City Square, we found a small knot of children in front of the fountain. They were pushing leaves through the water to make shapes — words, a love heart.

Damjan wanted to do his name so I collected up some leaves for him. Then it was my turn.

Damjan joines the children

Damjan finishes his name

My first graffiti

The children want to harvest some of my leaves for their own art

Walking home from work the next day, there were still people at the fountain, making shapes with leaves. There are now more shapes and names. I think we got in early on this Melbourne meme. I wonder how long it will last?

What I saw at Costco

joanium — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:37:32 +0000

Carlo took us to Costco. We wanted to buy tennis balls.

We came by public transport, carrying our biggest backpacks. We left with lots of stuff (including 30 packs of chewing gum). We didn’t get tennis balls, though, because they came only in packs of 48.

Here are some things I saw.

Pre-emptive thank you

Pallet city

Clothes

Eye exams

Drumkit

Piano

Jewellery

Swarovski fish

Decorative Nut Cracker 1.8 metre

Fridge

Furniture

Shatterproof Christmas ornaments (soccer ball sized)

Mattresses

8kg of kitty litter

Funky LED Open sign

Gazebo

Toilet seat

Diesel generator

Serious tools for serious work

Gym equipment

Previous frozen cooked crab, product of USA

More crab

Cake

More cake (man, what do they do with all this stuff if they don't sell it?)

Toys that speak Spanish

Leon Activo, bilingual lion

Chicken and buffalo wings

Pizza production line (some of the pizzas looked quite good)

15kg laundry detergent (200 washes)

Kayaks

Perfect protein for perfect people (5kg)

Tyres

$2.50 frozen yoghurt (my lunch)

Not landfill

joanium — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:20:24 +0000

I was walking to the Monash University engineering department when this shocking sight confronted me.

Rubbish in front of the engineering library

Oh no! Someone spilled a rubbish bin and it’s going everywhere! …Hey, wait a second… The bin is half buried in the ground.

Yep, it’s an art installation.

In front of Matheson Library

Dead bat

joanium — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:34:09 +0000

I found a bat dead on the nature strip when walking home one night. It was as big as a good sized melon.

Dead bat

Fine print

joanium — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:29:31 +0000

The convenience store 7-Eleven has a series of posters featuring a range of Slurpee flavours.

Lime Pear Slurpees

The fine print says: ‘Fruit image shown is illustrative of flavour only and not an ingredient of the product.’

I wonder if the lawyers told them to do that.

Wanted: Live Toadfish

joanium — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:23:28 +0000

Someone put this poster up next to the tram stop.

Wanted: Live Toadfish

Small, live toadfish wanted.
Can be found by any diligent fisherman.
Please call (…. … …) for reward and delivery/pickup of toadfish.
Reward $70

Yes, I’m

And it’s ripped off so we can’t see the end of that sentence.

Parking the cherry picker

joanium — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:29:23 +0000

Someone parked their cherry picker in the Monash University carpark. Monash Uni is full of vigilant park inspectors. I wonder if this picker would ever get a ticket?

Cherry picker at Monash University

Change and advice

joanium — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 01:32:51 +0000

I was second in the queue to pick up my photos from the Kmart photo lab.

A young man was making pleasant conversation as he packaged up the lady’s wedding photos.

‘There you go,’ he said and handed over the photos and the receipt.

‘Great, thanks, bye,’ said the lady. I stepped forward as she turned away. She had gotten five metres away when the young Kmart employee called her back.

‘Excuse me! I forgot to give you change.’

He took the a five cent coin out of the cash register and pushed it across the counter to her.

‘Don’t spend it all at once,’ he advised her gravely.

It’s us against them

joanium — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:27:46 +0000

I saw this on the way home.

Friendly neighbourhood warning

Heartburn

joanium — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:46:16 +0000

A pair of teenagers were loitering on the ground floor balcony of a Council estate. As I walked past, I heard, ‘WHOOOA! HEARTBURN!’

His friend said, ‘What do heartburn feels like?’

‘Feels like my heart is on FIRE!’