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           2019                                    G’Day From

           22nd,

           May


           |                                       Downunder
           EXAMINER                                Mike Bowen With all The Latest From Irish-Australia






           IRISH  s it just me that attracts  as Ireland’s Don Juan in the late  Olga in my best Russian which  honest guy. All I had to do was  telling me if I use such and such
                                                                       I tried to explain to sweet
                                        sixties and early seventies.
                                                                                                 send him my bank details and I
                                                                                                                              face cream I will get my youth
              unwanted emails, unsolicited
            Iphone calls and having my let-  Maybe those migrants then  is zero that the language barrier  would become an instant mil-  back again, a bargain at any
            terbox constantly filled with junk  decided to document my past  would be a problem as would  lionaire.           price. But what happens if I get
            mail? Does anyone know who I  deeds in letters to their lone-  the fact that there was about  Someone named Freda got  my good looks back and my old
            cantocomplaintosoIcangetmy  some single female friends back  forty years of a difference in our  wind of my medical records  legs can’t keep up with the
            sanity back?                home in the land of depleted  ages. However, I did tell her  and offered me a warehouse  demand of all the young girls
              When I turned on my com-  nuclear bombs.               not to give up hope, as there is  full of Viagra tablets at a dollar  chasing me?
            puter last week, I thought I was  I took it upon myself to  always light at the end of the  twenty a tablet; almost as cheap  No problem, I can buy a
            having a deja vu day. Some  respond to one of the girls  tunnel and if at any time in the  as the ten tablets Moses got  motorized buggy at a 30% dis-
            years back I had a similar ava-  named Olga, because that was  future, should my wife decide  from God. I’m definitely going  count to escape the pursuers.
            lanche of junk mail fill up my  the only name I could pro-  to move on because she found  to contact Freda and accept her  Of course, if I happen to be
            computer and my mail box. Let  nounce.                   someone more perfect than me  offer, providing she doesn’t  unlucky and get overrun by
            me share with you, some of the  I told her I was flattered that  I would be only too happy to  charge me for the shipping. In  gorgeous young ladies, then
            loony requests I received from  she would give up everything  reconsider her offer and I  reality, there are not enough  that’s something I will have to
            those who send me emails.   in her poverty stricken native  hoped she would keep the pic-  women in the world to justify  suck up and live with.
              I received a flood of emails  village to warm my bed for me  ture I sent her to use as a  me buying a shipload of Viagra.  However I better check first
            from young Russian women    and I was very touched that she  screensaver for her computer.  Then deja vu hits again  to make sure that the cream on
            offering me their hand in mar-  would devote every second of  As if all that wasn’t enough I  when I went to check the mail  their faces isn’t covering their
            riage. They must all be related  her remaining time on earth to  turned my computer the next  box. I had received a bundle of  true identity, for they may also
            to one and other as they all had  making me happy. However I  day to check my emails, again  Bon Voyage cards and long  be victims of this junk mail
            the same story, only different  told her there were a few points  hoping there would be zero  overdue bill requests. I never  propaganda.
            names. I was flattered when I  that should be stated by me up  inflow, only to discover anoth-  accept bills or disgruntled let-  I will write to Bill Gates and
            opened the first email but when  front as a point of honesty.  er flood of requests. Ivan want-  ters as I have them redirected  ask him, is there any hope that
            I got as far as the tenth I started  First, I don’t think my bride of  ed me to send him my bank  to my next door neighbor, who  before I go to sing with the
            to get a bit suspicious. I know I  many years would take too  details so he and the bank can  is a more tolerant type for that  heavenly choir that sanity
            had a bit of a reputation as a  kindly to you taking her posi-  check if they have my correct  sort of mail than I.  might return to my computer
            young lad back in Ireland years  tion in our matrimonial bed,  details.                 I don’t know about you but  and could he teach all comput-
            ago but this is ridiculous. Then  then there is the matter of who  Then Lena wanted to know  every time I go to the mail box  ers to eat SPAM instead of
            I thought, maybe the frenzied  would hold the household  if I want to buy some shares  I have to take a wheelbarrow  throwing it up on our desks.
            romantic exploits of my youth  purse, as my wife is not the  that are going to quadruple in  with me to carry all the junk  I’m also going to forward
            have now become folklore in  kind of person who would    the next two weeks.         mail back to the house. If I laid  Lena’s offer of quadruple
            the backwaters of Russia.   hand over anything to a        Next in line was Boris who  all the junk mail I receive in a  shares to Bill, as he seems to do
            Stories carried by Irish migrants  stranger, unless they had a gun  offered to share part of his  year side by side I bet you I  that sort of thing regularly.
            to Russia, or maybe by the new  to her head. The chances of  twenty two million windfall  would be able to wallpaper  As for Boris and his gener-
            wave of Russians coming to  you ever getting any money   with me just because some   every house in Ireland and have  ous offer of sharing his twenty
            Ireland who heard tales in dark  from my bride of many years,  very respected business associ-  some left over. If the volume  two million I will inform him
            pubs in West Cork or Dingle of  would be harder than trying to  ate of mine passed on my name  of junk mail gets any bigger,  that when I have spent my fifty
            my debonair wandering ways  teach a dog to play the fiddle.  to him and I sound like any  I’m thinking of taking on a full  million, I will be in contact with
                                                                                                 time person just to clear and  him, as I would feel greedy if I
                                                                                                 sort the junk mail for me and I  were to put my hand in his
                                                                                                 will have to have a much larger  pocket now so to speak.
                                                                                                 post box built, probably the   For goodness sake who are
                                                                                                 same size as the house to cater  these mugs and how stupid do
                                                                                                 for the amount of junk mail  they think we are? I shouldn’t
                                                                                                 that now overflows the current  gratify those idiots by naming
                                                                                                 one.                         them. Let’s just call them Do
                                                                                                    No wonder we have very lit-  Do’s. They must have the IQs
                                                                                                 tle rainforest left in the world,  of peas and that’s giving them
                                                                                                 as I’m sure most have been   too much credit. Ninety per-
                                                                                                 relocated to the recycled paper  cent of my mail is junk mail
                                                                                                 bin in my backyard.          from Mr Junk and no doubt
                                                                                                    Anything you would ever   delivered by... I suppose you
                                                                                                 wish to buy is in one of these  could call him or her a Junkie.
                                                                                                 pamphlets, brochures or book-   Am I the only one receiving
                                                                                                 lets; everything from a pound  all this rubbish or are you also
                                                                                                 of sausages to an electric organ,  inundated with this sort of non-
                                                                                                 beauty products showing per-  sense? I wonder.
                                                                                                 fectly shaped dolly birds to pim-  Until next time be good to
                                                                                                 pled faced adolescent puberty  those who love you and slainte
                                                                                                 developing young boys, all   from Downunder. C
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