For this old bird, the best place to celebrate New Year's is with family and friends. And as far away from any city, especially those with environmental vandalism fireworks (controversial I know).
I remember seeing people (on the news) having a punch up in Woolies over a packet of toilet rolls. I have no idea what was going through their heads. I just hope they were not representative of the general population.
My little brother was a very precocious child and at about 12 he answered the phone with "Murphy's Brothel, Murphy speaking". The response he got was "Senior Sargent ****, put your father on, smart arse".
I believe Coles has the better staff training. Every Coles I've set foot in, the staff are friendly, well informed and appeared to be content with their jobs. Like every other supermarket, the staff are expected to scan a minimum number of products every minute. I don't believe that this is...