It's all in the name

While I am used to mistakenly trying to use my driver's licence to take money out of an atm, today I tried to use a Woolies card in the serve yourself in K-mart.  The machine then haemorraged and the lady had to come and press all sorts of buttons to make the machine work again.  I used my card again causing another haemorrage and was caught by said lady who informed me what I needed to have was a flybys card.  Silly me.  I am sure she thought that I suffer from dementia.  Actually it is possible that this is the case.

Deaf

The other day I was driving my friend to the local shops.  It was the weekend so I drove past the school and approached the child care centre when my friend said, "horticasia".  She repeated it while pondered on what exactly the word meant.  Anything with horti at the beginning means something about gardens.  I was happily cogitating on exactly which part of a garden centre I would have to go to find a plant called horticasia when my friend said, "You weren't lookin at the sign."  What sign?  "The one that says 40ks here".

Deaf maybe, but I do live in a magical world of confusion and that in itself is not such a bad thing.