In hindsight, getting braces just before COVID took off was ideal. For the next couple of years, no one could see Lilianna’s mouth behind her mask, let along the railway tracks crossing her pearly whites.
It was only a matter of time and pressurised bowels. The absence of a window in the door that was the entrance to the boys toilets one day resulted in a collision, and one unlocked punter shitting his pants.
The resurrection of Big Tobacco, in the form of the vape, had been nothing short of astounding. It had other manufacturers considering bringing back other dangerously unhealthy items, like lead-based paint, asbestos and Teflon.
Tripping over the uncovered tree root reminded Danielle to book an appointment at the salon for a colour and blowout – her own roots were showing again.
It was a challenging moment for swimmer and foot-enthusiast Keira Langley: did she pass the slowpoke ahead of her or keep admiring his feet?
Pru was offended by her choice at the airport; snacks marked up fives times more than normal, or beer marked up three times more. She went with the beer.
Jaxson’s mother had lovingly packed him the perfect school lunch: a tin of tuna, sliced rockmelon, grapes, a couple apples. Perfect for his growing body and for a food fight.
Inflation had hit the point where the footy club could no longer afford footies to inflate.
Raquel abhorred leftovers, which was why the concept of meal prep, practised religiously by her new boyfriend, confounded her.
Frontman of the up-and-coming alt-rock group The Twats was kind enough to remove the fins from his surfboard before going for a crowdsurf.
Uncle Ian, snoring on the couch, off in noddyland after several heaped plates of Christmas lunch, appeared his to tiny niece as a fallen giant, felled in a forest of family and festivity.
Hands shot to pockets or handbags when a popular ringtone began to bellow from a fellow commuter’s phone.
Baker Brylee banked on baking brilliant buns to bring about more bread for her brood, but was arrested shortly after opening by the alliteration police, and sentenced to twelve years in prison.
Whitney’s friends often described love in a Disney-esque way, that meeting your soulmate that is was akin to getting electric shocks. Yet having witnessed a police officer tasing a mentally-unstable citizen a few years back, love rightfully scared the shit out of her.
It was remarkably impressive, that aside from successfully transitioning the stagnant company to one with exciting new revenue streams and growth, the CEO had, during that same time, transitioned to being a woman.
Amanda and Xavier were still virgins by a technicality. They’d done the deed, sure, but the only lubricant they had available was extra-virgin olive oil.