The Meeting
Today I had the pleasure of my first live meeting with a fellow blogger. It was an entirely unplanned and coincidental affair and this, my friends, is how it happened.En route to the Royal Brisbane Hospital I noticed my car was emitting some nasty odours. I thought I may need to put in some oil or coolant but thought, heat's not so bad yet, I'll wait till I pick my sister up. Unfortunately, or fortunately as the case turned out to be, while waiting at the lights to turn into the hospital, I noticed the temperature gauge had in fact shot up, and was almost already in the red zone. EMERGENCY! I thought. Luckily right next to these lights is a BP service station, and I whipped it in.
I wandered inside to use the facilities while the car cooled down and noticed out of the corner of my eye some young fellows looking at me, but paid no heed. I wasn't going to stare anyone down in a show of machismo. To the toilet with me. As I exited the restroom however, I was surprised to hear, "Dave!" from behind me as I walked away.
"Was that someone I knew?" I wondered to myself. I cautiously looked around the corner to see a familiar face.
He repeated, "Dave?"
"Allister?!"
And there you have it. My first live meeting with a fellow blogger. It was sweet, and can I say, glad to have met you in person Allister. Sorry you didn't have your phone there to immortalise the moment. Plus, when I'm famous, you could have flogged it off.
Haha.
the earley edition - Posted by Dave @ 6/09/2005 07:02:00 pm || ||
