Barry the Forklift driver had been living out of a car for the past few years.
His car was a Mercedes Benz delivery truck, fucking massive.
He could easily put in a double bed and still have room to swing a cat.
He was my role model.
Barry the Faggot who groped Michael Bublé after his gig.
Michael took it well.
Barry wouldn't let go.
The fact that Barry was 200 kgs with a bad hip, only disarmed the Canadian who emitted a nervous smile, before breaking away from Barry's embrace.
Barry is now working in the mines, clearing three grand a week.
I lived out of a Toyota Echo and a Nissan X Trail.
When the Nissan's starter motor blew, I had to buy the Echo.
But if Budget had of just replaced the car that broke down from a flat battery, I could have held out on buying another car to live in.
Only a week before I was living in a granny flat.
The Vietnamese landlady, treacherous as they come, decided to evict me.
'You bad man,' she said, pointing an electric drill at me.
She had cooked up a story about pulling down the kitchen for renovations.
Whatever she cooked up, it worked.
She got a six grand solar system I paid for, then dumped me.
In Little Vietnam, they talk.
The fruit lady must have told her that I thought marrying her sister in Vietnam for nothing was a crappy deal.
'She said she would pay the admin fees, though,' I explained to the fruit lady, who no sooner had I left with my bag of carrots, she was on the phone telling Trang about the ungrateful Australian.
Such is life and I was left homeless.
Abandoned by all I thought loved me.
My only friend were the business owners who hounded, the security night patrols, who called the police, who also told me to move on.
It's a hostile world out there, away from the comfort of our burrows.
We are moles, really, and tunnel in deep, enveloped in dirt, where we live our lives, hidden from the great open skies.
It's as if is those open skies that scares the soil feeders the most.
Any reference to worms, is coincidental.
What stands between us, and infinity is just a very thin atmosphere.
