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Local Betoota Flight Path District resident, John Carbonne (56) has today received confirmation that it’s not a good time to visit the beach.
This comes as the local builder visits his local Turkish barber for a short-back-and-sides.
With adult daughters and a couple grandkids who are still in nappies, John has lost touch with the school calendar, and because of this he often finds himself rammed in traffic around midday during the winter and summer months.
On top of this, the fact that there is no young families on his street means John still sticks to the speed limit in school zones all year round, even when there’s not a kid in sight.
However, today he received undeniable confirmation that school’s officially out.
This comes after visiting his barber of 30-years, old Emre from QUALITY HAIR CUTTING on Remienko Boulevard.
While enjoying his bi-monthly gossip about how corrupt the local council is, and how shit the Greeks are at soccer, John was alerted to an unpaid teenager worker harder than a drover’s dog.
“What’s he doing here?” asks John, in reference to the 14-year-old currently sweeping hair off the floor.
“No school” says Emre.
“Where he gonna go?”
“He can work”
Emre goes on to explain that his grandson’s parents both work in the local hospital, which apparently isn’t the type of workplace where you can offer up young teenagers for unpaid labour in exchange for free babysitting. So rather than sit at home watching the idiot box, he will now work for his grandfather every single day for two weeks.
John nods his head, as he takes note of these highly pracitxal parenting practices for when he needs a free builder’s labourer in ten year’s time.
Feeling peckish after his haircut, John decides to treat himself to a Vietnamese pork roll next door, only to be once again confronted with the same exact scenario.
“No chilli thanks” he tells the 13-year-old girl at the counter of BETOOTA FRENCH HOT BREAD.
