Had the most odd, yet sad, experience yesterday during Mend & Make Do Workshop.
I went outside to have a cuppa and a cigarette (yes I'm an addict again as of last October).
There was a chap waiting at the bus stop for his bus. So I struck up a conversation with him. Lovely fellow. We chatted about the weather, how lucky we were to live in such an amazing little community spirited town i.e. South Grafton.
After a while he looked quizzically at me and said 'are you a religious person?'. Not in a manner to strike a conversation down this path, but in a manner that left me in no doubt he meant ... 'why would you want to have a conversation with me?'. He was visibly startled when I responded with 'f*ck no, I'm here running a Mend & Make Do Workshop, you're welcome to join us any Thursday even if it's just for a free cuppa, and I'll even make it for you!'.
No prizes for guessing that this beautiful human being was a member of our First Nations community here in South Grafton how sad it is to think we've become a society where friendliness and genuine interest in others is viewed as having an ulterior motive!
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