Cathy's 50s Housewife Friday. Teen Zombies...alive, undead, and answering phones near you.

The Zombie Apocalypse is upon us! Read on adventurer IF U DARE....

50s Housewife Friday already??? Where has the week gone??

First track listing of the day: The Cure, Never Enough.

Love it, reminds me of my crazy, messed up, amazing schoolies week in 1990 for some reason :)

Followed closely by Kiss Kiss Kiss by the Plastic Ono Band, so weird and amazing, and am currently typing to my favourite L7 song 'Slide' which I sometimes play loudly around my husband if he's been bad.

I have personally spent much of the week buried under boxes, unpacking, cleaning, trying not to have a nervous breakdown etc as we settle into our new pad. With such cold, rainy weather as Brissy has been experiencing this week, its been a good excuse to get stuck into it. Yet still so much to be done!!

Having the kids on holidays has been good too, so the urgent need for school clothes and a certain standard of organisation has been unnecessary but it's definitely a double edged sword. I think that they are here to help, but they think they're on holidays so it's been a challenge to keep their attention on task...

For example, I was having a very serious and much needed conversation with them about their room: to keep the bunks, or to have separate beds or separate rooms? I assumed my teen was staring into the distance, contemplating these important options when I realised an inordinate amount of time had gone by without a response.

So I go: 'So what do u think?'

He says: 'I don't like that KISS poster, they've made Peter's whiskers too thin. I prefer them thicker...'

This brings me to today's topic 'Teen Zombies Are Alive and Undead and are answering phones at your local Takeaway Joint!!'

Where's the proof, you say? How's this:

Cause we've been moving we have been hitting the local take-outs like there's no tomorrow. Rang the number for Eagle Boys Toowong:

'Eagle Boys Albany Creek. Can I help you?'

'Oh, yeah, hey, they've put me through to you but I live at Paddington'

'Well ur closest one is'...(very long pause)...'Toowong'

'Yeah cool, can u put me through to them then?'

'Um....we don't do that'

'Oh, OK, well...can u give me their number?'

 'Ah...nah...haven't got it. If you call information, they'll have it'

(hangs up)

'Eagle Boys Toowong, can I help you?'

'Oh, yeah, hey, I wanna get one of your 3 pizza meal deals but I've only got internet vouchers and my internet is down, so is that cool?'

'Ummm...we only have those deals on the internet'

'Yeah cool, is there a similar deal, just generally?' 

'Ummm...I'm not sure. I've only been here a week...'

'Hmmm...well could u check?'

'Well...I'm here by myself at the moment but if u get on your internet you could check'

'I just said my internet is down, dude'

'Hmmm...well...'

I hang up, a little agitated by now.

Husband: 'just call Kookaburra Kafe. They cost more but at least you get good service'.
Me (begrudgingly): 'OK'

'Ring ring'
They answer and hang up.
'Ring ring'
Answer and hang up.

Me: 'those $#%&^# pieces of %@@%&^ keep hanging up!'
Hubby: 'U must be dialling wrong'

'Ring ring'
Hubby: 'here, it's ringing' (shoves phone at me)

'Hello KK, may I help you'

'Hi yes, I'd like to place an order'

'What would you like?' 

'One half meatlovers, half bacon banana and chilli'

 'Anything else?'

'Yeah, one camembert and king prawn'

'Ummm...I don't think we've got that'

'Well I've ordered it 20 times so I think u do'

'Ahhh...I'm not sure about that...'

 'It's on ur menu, dude'

'I'll check...' (covers mouthpiece, has a convo with another zombie)

'OK...yeah...we have it'

'Oh, cool, can I have one?'

'Ummmmm....OK. Is that it?'

'Yes thanks' 

So the pizza was ordered and on its way and my bewilderment and aggravation was temporarily sated at the thought of my very own small king prawn and camembert pizza due in 35 mins.

An hour passes as I try to restrain myself from killing the children every time they came and whined that they were starving and asking  where the pizza was, and then finally, the zombie arrived with the food. The kids and Dan hurried out to greet him and luckily, as the zombie sensed no fresh brains, they all survived. He did have incorrect change, smell weird and did do a burnout out on the front as he was leaving.

All was well in the world, and as I ate my half prawn and camembert, half tandoori chicken with extra olives pizza, I decided to just be thankful for small mercies and we had in fact survived another day.

Hope you all have a fabulous Friday :)

Cathy xx