Advertiser on phone: So would it be okay to drop by the shop and give you some of this material?
Me: Sure, I’m here Monday to Friday.
Him: How about Tuesday afternoon?
Me: No way! Dude, it’s Melbourne Cup Day!

And with that, I think my Australian transformation is complete. I went from mockery and scorn to actively rescheduling meetings around a HORSE RACE. *sigh* Good grief. Not to mention the fact that I just spent two hours baking peanut butter cookies to give to the printers next door in compensation for all their beer I plan drinking tomorrow…