Despite living in WA his whole life, Dave has once again foolishly presented at his local Woolies at 9:30 on a Sunday morning.
This represents a perfect record of forgetting about the late Sunday morning start since his local store was permitted to trade on Sundays in 2012.
Fortunately, he was not alone in his misery as he found himself amongst common-minded folk who had formed an agitated horde and were minutes away from getting their barbarian on and storming the proverbial gate.
We spoke to Dave about his unbeaten 600th week streak of failing to register this annoying detail. He told The Times,
“For farrrrks sake. Sometimes I only get here early by 30 minutes but today I’ve really cooked the chook. I’ll have to do the walk of shame up to IGA for the bacon & eggs. I’ll pay more than I want but at least I’ll get to pretend I’m a big support local kinda guy on FB later in the day”
To get to the bottom of how Dave and so many can consistently forget about the trading hours we spoke to another member of the horde amassed outside the front. She told The Times,
“I know people walk past and look at us like we have shitfabrains but we’ve actually created a real community here united by our anger at WA’s archaic trading laws. That’s Trish over there, we met 10 years ago and now I’m here kid’s godmother”
One could be mistaken for believing the horde do this every weekend to simply prove a point. Or to live their truth. We put that to Dave who told The Times,
“Yeah, you can really feel the hate pulsating through the crowd, it keeps me going. I still blame Colin Barnett for his pissweak amendments to the Retail Trading Hours Act, I actually call him Colon ha ha”
Indeed you do Dave, indeed you do.