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A man from the Central Tasmanian town of Launceston has been filled with wonder and astonishment this afternoon as he landed in Brisbane to spend a week with his cousins over Christmas.
When he’s back home, Mark Cutler runs his own trades wholesale business and is often the one in his household who’s tasked with taking the family’s garbage and recycling down to the tip to be burned.
But upon arriving at his cousin’s place in the cosmopolitan Gold Coast corridor, the 46-year-old said he was taken aback.
Speaking to The Advocate this afternoon at one of South Brisbane’s most popular drive-in taverns, Mark said he knew mainlanders were a bit fancier than Tasmanians but his cousin really must be kicking goals.
“Mate, he’s got his own incinerator,” he said.
Mark took the iPhone 4 out of his breast pocket and brought up a picture of the incinerator.
“He must be rich as hell. Not even the dairy owners in Tassie have their own incinerator. But between you and me, they built it a bit too close to the house. You wouldn’t want to be burning a wedge of nappies or something and have it blow into the house.”
Mark had a big, excited sip from his pint of cider.
“While he was at the beach this morning, I burned all the garbage in the house in the thing. Pretty annoying how you’ve got to shut all the windows but I guess land isn’t very cheap in Brisbane so he makes do with what he has. But yeah, back home in Launceston, we just take all our rubbish down to the park and set it on fire so the smoke doesn’t blow into the house,”
“But yeah, uh, I got through a fair bit of rubbish this morning. It’s a good little incinerator, that thing.”
As he took another large sip, Mark excused himself to answer his phone.
He came back into the smoking section to say his farewells as his cousin was about to start making pizzas for dinner.
More to come.
