Public Transportation and an Aussie Slang Test

Monday May 15th – Ron is back which means our Aussie of the day is back as well! Here is your riddle for the day. I’m going to give you a sentence using Aussie slang. Most of the slang has been described on this blog at some point so you’ll have to search your memory. See if you can translate this sentence into American. I’ll give the answer at the end of this blog. Ready?

So I was herbing along on my pushy, had a stack, and put a dent in my skid lid. What happened to me?

So now that we have all done both our residential routes and business routes solo, the last piece to put it all together is using public transportation. Remember, I have to use my long cane while blindfolded to go from my pretend house through a residential area to my bus stop, catch the bus and ride to the business area on Brunswick Street. Once at Brunswick I have to walk several more blocks and several road crossings away to my destination (which happens to be a church). After getting to the church I leave and walk a different route back to another bus stop where my “instructor” will meet me. So today we practiced riding the bus under blindfold which included asking the driver to tell us when we got to the right stop. We then practiced riding a tram under blindfold which is slightly trickier. Trams run on tracks in the middle of the road. This means when you hear the tram arrive you must cross a lane of traffic to get to the tram. Not a concern if every driver is paying attention to the situation but one must still listen for traffic in case drivers get impatient and attempt to go around the tram. The other bummer about the trams is that the driver is in a practically sound proofed booth and it is not convenient to ask for assistance.

Answer: I was riding my bike (pushy or push bike) really fast (herbing along), crashed it (had a stack), and scraped (dented) my bike helmet(skid lid). (No, I didn’t really crash, it’s just a game, silly!)