Pests and tennis

For anyone who is wondering, the tennis match I referred to in my last post involved Kim Clijsters.  Apparently known as 'Aussie Kim', the interviewer (apart from asking about Vegemite) asked her if in Belgium she is known as 'Belgian Kim'.  In the close up camera shot the player looked suitably amazed at this inane line of questioning. 


Sydney today buzzes with Michael Clarke's triple century at the SCG.  With the weather around town looking a little uncertain, who knows if there will be a result in the match today? 

Mycroft, though, is not only concerned with sport.  Over the holiday period there have been few opportunities to observe the normal round of human behaviour on buses, in taxis, in the office and so on.  However, there have been many opportunities to observe the Holidaymaker, the Shopper or the garden variety Pest.  Sometimes all these entities align into one creature. 

I've always tried to be tolerant of the out-of-state plate on a car....that is when one sees a car clearly from interstate looking lost on the road.  We've all been there.  A worrying trend has crept in though, which is for lost drivers to do dangerous things to get where they (belatedly discover) would like to be.  Swerving across three lanes to cross a traffic island to get to a freeway exit is a good example.  The fear of injury or death seems to be trumped by the fear of missing a turn.  Perhaps in the case I observed the driver was in a hurry to get to the SCG to see the cricket.  Not that anything could have been seen from out of the car, which was chock full of pillows, blankets, beach toys and bicycles. 

Until a giant pest zapper is developed (you know, with the purple light), be careful out there....