Bill
Picture it, Sicily 1916. I am out to dinner with 15 mates to celebrate another mate’s resignation from work. The dinner is proceeding very well and we are all eating and how unusual - drinking. With all of the 30 something’s, conversation was varied and amusing. The amusement increased as with the alcohol intake. It comes time for the bill. Easy enough you would think as most of the attendees are established in their careers, the bill breakdown was given to one of our fellow constituents who works in finance. We will now refer to this person as “dollars and cents”.
Let’s just paint the picture of “dollars and cents”. She has come to be one of my great mates up here and will be a life long pal. This person can drink me under the table with ease and will often be the first one to put me “off tap” for being too intoxicated. Many a good night has been spent with this person “rocking out” as with the copious amount of abdominal workouts and wrinkles from laughing at “crazy town” member stories.
So the bill is broken down to what we ate as all drinks were paid for along the course of the night. Handing over the money from 14 members to one of our constituents who paid for the whole dinner on his credit card. Upon drunken proclamation, the person who went and paid came back to the table with mild amusement. Instead of not telling us about the miss calculation and getting a free meal, he did as any good Territorian does – returned to the table – took the piss out of “dollars and cents” by announcing to the table that a gross over calculation had occurred in the breakdown of the bill. His rectification of the situation was to………. Wait for it……. Buy what ever the over calculation was in shooters.
Now in recent review of the Charles Darwin University Annual Report our finance officer found that the university was in the green of 44 million dollars for the 03-04 financial year (they weren’t saying this in the report). As stated earlier “dollar and cents” works in finance – it just so happens that the finance department she works for is the university’s finance department. Hmmmmm – coincidence??????
This is Kim Dundee reporting from the Territory.
Let’s just paint the picture of “dollars and cents”. She has come to be one of my great mates up here and will be a life long pal. This person can drink me under the table with ease and will often be the first one to put me “off tap” for being too intoxicated. Many a good night has been spent with this person “rocking out” as with the copious amount of abdominal workouts and wrinkles from laughing at “crazy town” member stories.
So the bill is broken down to what we ate as all drinks were paid for along the course of the night. Handing over the money from 14 members to one of our constituents who paid for the whole dinner on his credit card. Upon drunken proclamation, the person who went and paid came back to the table with mild amusement. Instead of not telling us about the miss calculation and getting a free meal, he did as any good Territorian does – returned to the table – took the piss out of “dollars and cents” by announcing to the table that a gross over calculation had occurred in the breakdown of the bill. His rectification of the situation was to………. Wait for it……. Buy what ever the over calculation was in shooters.
Now in recent review of the Charles Darwin University Annual Report our finance officer found that the university was in the green of 44 million dollars for the 03-04 financial year (they weren’t saying this in the report). As stated earlier “dollar and cents” works in finance – it just so happens that the finance department she works for is the university’s finance department. Hmmmmm – coincidence??????
This is Kim Dundee reporting from the Territory.
posted by Kim dundee at 2:27 PM
1 Comments:
Perhaps it was just my cunning plan to enable us to have more shots....or perhaps I just can't add up.
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