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Ashley Robinson: I'm keen to write a dictionary and share some home truths

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I have thought about starting my own dictionary (or Pictionary!), but maybe call it Tugboat’s Observation Pictorial.

At the top of my list would be those places that are supposed to offer customer service or assistance but have the front door locked.

Customers have to push a button and explain why they should be let in.

Sometimes, even after getting in, they have to talk to someone through a security screen or glass.

‘Hypocritical’ could possibly be the word followed by photos of some providers. Providers who we actually want to spend our money with.

Plus, some council buildings, some politicians – all the wonderful folk who are there to support the great unwashed. The unwashed who have to be vetted, of course.

Politicians never cease to amaze me. Not all, of course, but many.

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Yes, those politicians who, every chance they get, send out wonderful things about what they have supposedly achieved but don’t actually want to speak to the people who voted them in – unless they are properly filtered.

If my picture book was alphabetical, I might have to drop the ‘H’ and come up with an ‘A’ word. Wouldn’t be too hard.

‘Ignorance’ is an easy one.

There would be photos of people walking three abreast on footpaths without a care in the world for anybody else.

As well as drivers who don’t know the merging rules and can’t acknowledge when someone kindly lets them in.

E-scooter riders and cyclists on walking paths who think they are in the last lap at Bathurst.

Merging traffic on the Sunshine Coast.

And let’s not forget the people who pass you on a path at 5am and can’t even acknowledge you.

Smokers who throw their butts out of the car window with no regard for anyone.

This section could actually fill my book, so I better move on.

‘Kindness’ – easy to fill with photos of Meals on Wheels volunteers, Lions, Rotary and the like.

The Sunshine Coast is full of kind people.

‘Optimism’ would be a photo of anyone who actually goes and inspects a Mater Prize Home.

Lastly, ‘Brave’ would be the police, firies, paramedics, the armed forces and everyone in the medical industry.

Thankfully, kindness, optimism and bravery make up for the rest.

Ashley Robinson is chairman of the Sunshine Coast Falcons and Sunshine Coast Thunder Netball, and a lifetime Sunshine Coast resident.

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