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Tuesday, 2:52 pm in Misc

DEE is standing at a counter in the power tool section, staring off into space.

CLERK #1:  Can I help you, ma’am?
DEE:  I was wondering if you had one of those portable hand-held steamer things.
CLERK #1:  Ooh, no I don’t think we have anything like that…
DEE:  You use them for cleaning, like, fabric and stuff.  You know.
CLERK #1: Yeah yeah, I know the ones you mean; like on the TV.  Hey, Rob, do we have any of those hand-held steamer things like on TV?
CLERK #2:  I don’t think so, no sorry.  What do you need it for?
DEE:  I’m actually going to use it to make synthetic dreadlocks.

CLERKS #1 and #2 stare blankly.

CLERK #1:  We have a gluegun?

Okay, so 200 cable ties; check.  But no steamer.  eBay it is then (good ol’ eBay).  I found an Australian seller who sells ‘Piranah’ brand steamers for a whopping 99 cents!  Though I am a little hesitant to buy something for 99 cents that combines both electricity and water; I used to have that $20 Woolies iron at uni, and that was pretty scary.  I bet the postage is like $40, though; 99 cents my ass.  The other option is an American seller, but that involves dicking about with electrical converters and, bleh, pass on that one.

So I have hair, I have a base wig and I have some cable ties.  Still looking; one steamer, some backcombing combs (flea comb?), and some kind of hooking device for making single-ended dreads (to cable-tie into the ‘bald’ patches in the wig base’s weft).  Cool.

We’re going to see ‘the boys’ at The Apartment tonight.  Apparently they are, indeed, The Boys; ‘flamingly so’ according to ~Mat [h].  Oh, and after a long conversation with the Telstra lady re. getting the phoneline connected, we’re now reasonably sure we can get ADSL.  Phew.  Turns out the call centre lady’s sister works in my department, so when I mentioend that I could find her in the corporate phonebook, the Telstra lady became very helpful, even to the point of accidentally muttering the existing number of the flat under her breath, and looking up random account details for other people in the complex to see if any of them had ADSL connected.

Things are good.

• Tags » adventures in everyday life, dreadwig, the apartment
• Comments By » ~Mat [h]