the point

maybe it was this week that resulted in today. Everything has been building up to this point. People are starting to complain about so many things. I get the feeling from people I have come across that all the assurances given are hollow - no one is buying it.

so they were performing electrical works for the new train station on Moreland Road and half the road where the crossing used to be was closed. So was a side street. Standing on the corner of Moreland and Station Street I thought, this should be entertaining, but there was something a little extra going on today.

not the usual incompetence and confusion by the drivers; half of them were really angry. The stand out was a woman who was adamant she had to get through and gave a heated explanation as to why, then started the explanation all over again as to why she had to go through the side street. Horns started blaring from the other drivers as she had this unique talent of placing her car in a certain way on the road that meant that no one could leave. Then the horns became yelling. Then abuse. Then swearing. She finally managed to do a U turn, which was timely because people started getting out of cars.

there seem to be more people on the tram ranting to themselves today. The conspiracy theories are flowing thick and fast as to how we got into this mess. 

the two police officers I spoke to the other day were standing outside Woolworth's again and told me this last week has been really strange, tense. The gift shop in the mall was open this week because the owner was sick and tired being in lock down. They fined them and closed it down but not after a fair exchange of hostility. Plus they mentioned there seem to have been a number of people losing it in the middle of the street, for no real reason. Going into a rage over the slightest thing

now I have no desire to be a harbinger of doom; these are just observations. But I get the feeling that we have reached the point

what that point is I have not the foggiest idea.

but all the way home a man on the tram was having quite the violent argument with his partner. She was really quiet and then came the realization; she wasn't his partner, she was just another passenger on the tram. After a few stops she got off the tram and he proceeded to continue having the full on argument with himself.

after a while there was a slight break in the hostility as he started friendly waving out the window

to no one