Monday, April 02, 2007

can I have a word with you sir

Got in trouble today with a security type bloke at a hotel (pub) behind the office. It was my induction today, which was fine, and in the afternoon we had to perform a treasure hunt race thing that involved going about town getting stuff and proving it. Team building stuff. One of the challenges was to buy a drink in a pub recommended to us by reception. This part of the test was, I think, to make sure we'd read the instructions and asked the question before running off out onto the mean streets. Anyway, we ran about and did our stuff and finished in the hotel. It was empty and I took a wander around, checking out how they had decked the old building out. Lots of space for drinkers, not much else going on. In a back room I spotted a row of pokies with no players. It looked a little interesting, so I clicked off a picture. Back at the bar I was accosted by a bloke in civvies who seemed interested in my picture. I thought he was intrigued by my choice of subject - kinda dull. But no, he was more concerned that maybe I was a baddie, a robber who might be coming back to hold the place up. There have, he assured me, been a fair few armed robbieries in the city and he seemed to think that maybe I was casing the joint. He was rather grumpy about the whole thing, not seeming at all convinced that I just liked the look of the room as a picture.

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