CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT
A local man who has no need for chapstick other than the fact that he appears to like the mundane candle-like flavour, has today applied it to his lips for no reason.
This comes after the 26-year-old from Betoota’s Flight Path District saw his girlfriend use it – as they take in the sunlight of a roaring beer garden out the back of Betoota’s Lord Kidman hotel.
But the local man in question, Kel Ricketson, hasn’t followed the misso’s lead.
He’s got his own way of doing it. By winding it all the way up, and applying it like lipstick.
As a man who suffers neither from coldsores or dry lips. This is a zero sum game for him.
The chapstick isn’t even one of those yummy flavours like pawpaw or strawberry. It has no flavour. It’s one of those generic brands she bought from an overpriced tobacconist when she found herself out and about and suffering from dry lips.
And at this moment, her simple-minded boyfriend is very close to snapping the fucking thing in half and leaving her stranded again.
But it’s hard not to marvel at this bizarre technique.
Kel has even gone as far as smacking his lips together after each application, a technique he could’ve only learnt when he was a boy watching his mother apply lipstick in the rear view mirror when she was rushing to get through the school drop off without being late for work.
With no vape, cigarretes or fidget spinner to occupy his hands between mouthfuls of lager. It seems that he is now in perpetual loop of reapplying chapstick every time he puts down his glass. Until his girlfriends puts it back into her handbag and he never thinks about it again.
