The Tourist Information Building as you enter Katherine contains at least two of the best examples of ignorance I have ever encountered. For fifteen minutes they sat in their glassed in (presumably sound proofed) office and ignored the people standing at the desk. So I’m thinking they must be very busy answering on line enquiries or whatever, that is until one of them got up rushed to the snack shop, grabbed a frozen yogurt, rushed back to his fishbowl and resumed his net browsing activities all the time avoiding eye contact and without any sign of acknowledgement that I, or anyone else for that matter, existed on this large and equiring planet. These guys make Telstra look good, well better anyway.

Now I am not one to complain, well OK I am, but how do you complain to someone who doesn’t acknowledge your existence. I tell you these guys are pros. When they were growing up they were the winners of  the stare you in the face and not blink championships. Some of us grew out of that game, they didn’t, they chose to make a career of it, in fact I suspect they both have PhD’s in whizzing people off, they probably go to the weekly ignoramus club meetings and swap stories about interesting customers they have ignored.

In fact they are such fine specimens of their genus perhaps they should be stuffed. I felt a very strong urge to suggest same.

Tour what tour?

By the way I’m off to the hot springs to cool off.