I just came across this breaking news story
School crossing corruption crack-down
It appears that some school crossing guards (called lollipop ladies by News Ltd) may be accepting gifts around Christmas time. As a result some local councils are cracking down on this potential source of bribes and corruption.
My first exposure to scandal and corruption came when I was very young.
I was a young and eager student learning basic arithmetic. We went through several examples of addition and subtraction when one eager young student asked:
What is 2 minus 3?
I often watch the news and enjoy movies. But cartoons used to be where the really bizarre and over the top comments were found.
I recently commented on Virgin’s customer service – but I had an equally heroic level of service from Qantas recently.
I go to airports a lot and I often think it is a shame that I am not sharing all the exciting goings on with you when I am there (actually not a lot goes on generally).
These guys are driven by their care for the customer in everthing they do, which is excellent.
Sign at Brisbane Airport
But it left me a little confused. Can anyone explain customer care and the link to empty service desks again?
When I was a kid it used to be un-Australian to be patriotic. In fact the only time we felt patriotic was on the sports ground.
I frequently catch taxi’s to and from Sydney airport and pay a small surcharge for the priveledge.
On my last trip, my driver told me that the money goes to Macquarie Bank (the owners of the airport) to help them administer taxi queues.
When I was a kid we used to go to the library quite often, but as I grew up I stopped going so often. But rather than stop reading I simply started buying lots of books to read.
Then, many years later, I got married and my wife discovered my book addiction – I was probably buying a new book every week or two.
“At least”, I told her, “I am no longer reading them all. I can proudly say that I own many books that I have only read a small part of”.
