Common sense isn’t so common anymore. Take last week in my little world, for instance.
A fair example of having not much sense was highlighted when old mate asked me to go get the shopping from the supermarket.
Now this is a bit of a mission. I get a fairly detailed shopping list and where to find the listed goods, plus photos sent to my phone of anything that old mate thinks might challenge me — so plenty of photos.
I also get a tutorial of the list before I leave with many “do you understand” questions and pulled faces when I don’t.
Hearing is another problem, as during the tutorial she started adding something to the list.
I thought she said, “how do you spell cable ties” when in fact, she was asking me how to spell Thai salad. That caused a ruckus, but eventually, off I went.
I returned quite confident I had nailed it, producing all my gatherings until lastly, the spicy raisin bread. It was the right one, but apparently I was supposed to ask to get it cut thick. Bugger me. I thought it was already cut (note to self: take glasses next time).
We had a ding dong argument about how much common sense I didn’t have, so I told her I would cut it for her and she snarled back to make sure the slices are all the same size and straight.
Wow, that was a scary 15 minutes of my life with her staring at me, but I managed to complete the mission unscathed.
Restoring some dignity as I walked out of the kitchen, she quietly asked me if I got any of the apples that I liked, as there was only one left. I replied that it wasn’t on the list.
“But they are your apples you idiot, you knew there was only one left. You have no common sense.”
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I have to agree, but thankfully I found a worse example.
I walk through an environmental park to the beach and about a month ago, some idiot had a party in there and left a lounge on the track.
It stayed a couple of weeks and then it had a tape put around it with ‘illegal dumping under investigation’ written on it and it stayed for another two weeks. Are you serious? Why didn’t they just take it away? Are the possums or the wallabies going to give evidence about who and how it was dumped?
Thankfully, at the time of writing it has been taken away. Common sense is not common. I should know.
Ashley Robinson is a columnist with Sunshine Coast News and My Weekly Preview. His views are his own.
