The Snow Globe Awards were started as a bit of family fun a couple of years ago when my sister Judy and her husband Mike and daughter Emily along with Paul, Ross,Tom and myself went to Melbourne to see the tennis. Every now and then one of us would do something that would be embarrassingly funny or just plain silly. Points at the end of the holiday were tallied up and after a quick discussion the person with the most points to their name would win a snow globe of Melbourne.
An example of snow globeness was when Ross caught up with a uni friend and she arranged for Ross to meet her at the Lucky Cock, a small bar in St Kilda not to be confused with the Lucky Shag in Perth. We all thought this was embarrassingly funny (Paul thought Ross was a lucky bastard) Another example was when I chose a Chinese restaurant that had won a lot of awards as they were plastered all over the restaurant and it turned out to be one of the worst eating experiences ever. The food was terrible.
The winner of the award was Judy. Now if you know Judy she is a very talented, intelligent and worldly woman. Judy is a dedicated teacher who could have been a builder, a tiler, a designer, you name it. When we went out for a drink and a meal at an Irish Pub in Melbourne one evening, Judy decided to order her meal. She hadn't noticed that we had all gone around a corner to order at the bar....Judy went straight to a cupboard that had a curtain as a door and was very surprised that there was no one behind the curtain to take her order. We all thought this was embarrassingly funny and embarrassingly silly.
This leads us to the question of who is going to win the Snow Globe Award on this holiday? I can give you a clue......his first name starts with the letter P. Paul is now owning up to snow globeness even when he does something embarrassingly funny or silly and there are no witnesses. We have no chance to overtake his lead on the tally board, however, Mick, Leonie, Imogen and Trac have now joined the tour. In Ireland snow globeness gets translated to "feckin eejit"!
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