Kaniva Auction

So today I was a volunteer. I did something for the greater good. Became a better person if you will. Ah, who am I kiddin??? I served snags, steaks and hot dogs to hungry Aussies. . . :) I went to the Kaniva Auction today and helped out a fellow Rotary club, serving the hungry people. I even got to wear those sexy rubber gloves. If any of you have seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show, you should be remembering that seen with Frankenfurter and his creation where he snaps his glove on. . . or off, I can't quite remember. . .anyways. . .Twas fun, well as fun as serving snags can get. . . It was raining, so I was happy to be inside next to the barbie keeping warm. :) Oh and a snag is a sausage. But their sausages are different here in the wonderful world of Oz, they resemble hot dogs. Except they taste funny. The firs time I had one, no one told me it was a sausage and it looked like a hot dog so I'm just thinkin "wow, this is the weirdest tastin hot dog I've ever had. . . "

At this auction they had a little bit of everything. They basically collect junk from people and sell it. Most of it happens to be from people that have croaked and then their houses have been cleared of all their excess stuff. And it was raining. . .so I found an umbrella. . .

These are the men who were auctioning the stuff. Ya know how in the states they do it all properly, they have people up on the stage holding the item up for bid while the bidders sit neatly in rows silently holding up their numbers to make a bid? Well here in Oz, they just follow the auctioneer around like a mob, with the auctioneer standing on tables and yelling out to the crowd, the crowd yelling back. Then they simply pass the items out and take the bidders number down so they can record who owes what to who. It's a much less organized process but it works just as well.

This is a camping toilet, usually they sit over a deep hole in the ground and that's where you do your business. It's called a long drop toilet. It was up for bid. I thought it was pretty funny. Made me smile :)

This was the sign that was in the bathroom. The sinks were all rusty and the toilets had spiderwebs all over them. . .typical Australia, everything has spiders crawling all over it. In fact, there is a massive, well massive to my American standards but tiny to Australian ones, spider living in the window sill at school. But no biggie, we just let it be. But every time I'm in that corner of the room, I remember it's there and turn around to make sure it isn't sneaking up behind me thinking a bit of Yankee might taste good :) Anywho. . .this is a sign that was on the wall in the toilets, obviously you shouldn't drink the water. But why would you want to, the sink was pretty rank.