The things you learn riding the bus

It’s possible to learn all sorts of unusable but interesting information while traveling home on the bus.  Even if you’re trying really hard not to, and Eddie and I were trying really hard not to last night. 

It all started when we got on the bus and sat down in two seats facing forward and a young guy and girl sat down in the two seats facing us.  Eddie and I were trying to talk about our respective days in quiet voices thinking probably nobody else on the bus wanted to know things like how I wanted Eddie to come with me to use my voucher for a free coffee and chocolate at Adora Homemade Chocolates.  Then the couple opposite began talking and eventually we were sitting silently, looking politely out the window and pretending not to listen as they chatted about their stuff.

What did we learn?

1. It’s not a good idea for your little brother, or you, to get a tattoo in Bali.
2. Even if it is really really cheap.
3. So cheap it only costs $600 to get your whole entire arm tattooed.
4. Because in Bali they use watered down ink to do tattoos.
5. That means if your little brother gets his whole entire arm tattooed it will fade really really quickly.
6. And he’ll have to get it re-done when he gets back to Australia.
7. For $2000!
8. Also, if you have a little brother and he wants to get his whole entire arm tattooed you should tell him to get his Mother’s name tattooed in the middle of it, not his best mate’s name.
9. Then your Mum won’t be quite so upset when she sees her little boy come back from Bali with his whole entire arm tattooed in watered-down ink.  Apparently.
10. And on a related note, girls shouldn’t wear nose rings, because it makes them look like bogans.

Yup, we had an informative ride home on the bus.