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I was driving to Bega for the day

I’d had enough of the place I’d been staying at for the past week or so,

so I told my friends I was heading off to visit my uncle

He does live there, in Bega, but that was never my intention

I could’ve made anything up but lying this way seemed less dishonest

I’d had enough of the south coast, I wasn’t really taking it in

But that was never really my intention

I headed off that morning in the car that I’d bought the previous month off two

British backpackers who had driven it south all the way from Queensland even

though it couldn’t shift out of second gear

It was 40 degrees that morning and the car started overheating again

I pulled off on a dirt road about 15 minutes from where I started and called

emergency roadside assistance

I sat in the back of my station wagon and started reading a book I’d found

about how you could live a simpler existence away from the pressures of modern

life but still keep your aspirations and your morals intact and still spend

heaps of money and still make heaps of money but not have the guilt and not

live in quite as much debt

They call 'em Downshifters

I wandered onto a nearby property to fill up a bottle of water from a tap and

in the distance I saw two farm dogs who were heading my way

I was dehydrated and I was getting sunburnt but the water coming out of the tap

was murky

I could fill up the car with it but I couldn’t drink it

I just kept thinking about later that day how I’d be sitting alone in an air

conditioned shop

I was gonna get a lunch special: a box of chicken, chips and a can of drink

I looked out again and the dogs were getting nearer

They were barking now and they sounded really angry

Shit, they’re gonna attack me!

Better start running myself

Too fast for me

Fuck, I’m gonna die here!

Mauled my dogs, trespassing on this property, fourty minutes from Bega

(Very good)

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