2 weeks ago my daughter came back from a 1 week long school excursion to Melbourne and she said they kept getting Wino's, homeless, Junkies etc asking for money, and it was too crowded and noisy. Yep, I remember all those things about cities!
Then, tonight, my son came back from his school Surfing camp at Lorne. We took him into Ballarat Pizza Hut Restaurant to celebrate him being home.
Now, today was a public Holiday in Ballarat coz of the Ballarat Cup Horse race. We hoped the restaurant would be fairly empty. It was when we turned up at 6:30pm.
Then the wierd crowd started turning up. Heaps of drunken blokes and sheilas in suits and floral hats from the Ballarat Cup day. They were only there about 3 minutes and they took over the place, yelling, throwing stuff around, arguing etc.
One family got up and walked out half way through their meal!!! I told my family we are staying, I'm not going to let them ruin our night. Then we looked out the restaurant window and there was a street brawl between about 30-40 Race-goers (blokes and sheilas) right outside Pizza Hut in the roundabout! Punches flying everywhere! They were fighting in the middle of the traffic with cars swerving to miss them (should have run them over!!!) and then more came out of the pub opposite to join in.
My boys were getting a bit nervous! It was a pretty wild street brawl. Then the drunks inside the restaurant started cheering them on from inside, trying to yell at them through the windows!!!
What a hell of a night at a restaurant!
When we finally left, every street we drove down to get out of Ballarat again, there were drunken, arguing, staggering race-goers, plus the usual locals stirring them on!
It was worse than the usual Ballarat Friday/Saturday nights of nightclubbers and hoons taking over the streets!
Geez it was great to get back to our quiet little country town.
Strange to think that many years ago I used to be one of those annoying people, and now I can't wait to get away from it all and high-tail it out to Hicksville, cows, sheep and peace & quiet.
It was a terrible night.
You can keep your cities thanks.
I'll stick to being a Hillbilly with dark sky and silence
