{"id":271,"date":"2014-11-20T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlewanderingwren.com\/2014\/11\/adventure-before-dementia.html\/"},"modified":"2014-11-20T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T08:42:00","slug":"adventure-before-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlewanderingwren.com\/staging\/8794\/2014\/11\/20\/adventure-before-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventure before dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Fifty something, mother of three,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">just released&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">after twenty plus years of&nbsp;juvenile&nbsp;detention,&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">caught up in Sydney sex pest ring.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">I too could see the headlines&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/h4>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">This is the first week of the rest of my life!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">In fact today is it.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">The day of reckoning.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I&#8217;ve been telling my husband that&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">just as soon as the kids are all through school<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m coming with him on all his business trips&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">He&#8217;s been telling me for twenty-two years<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">that I&#8217;ll get bored and won&#8217;t last the distance.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Tuesday our youngest finished school<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">and Thursday I got up at 5am to fly to Sydney.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Woo hoo!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-xJS_Yb37BTs\/VG2RI9TA6HI\/AAAAAAAAEtA\/o2gQ493ie_U\/s1600\/Sydney1.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-xJS_Yb37BTs\/VG2RI9TA6HI\/AAAAAAAAEtA\/o2gQ493ie_U\/s1600\/Sydney1.jpg?resize=500%2C640\" height=\"640\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">So far, so good.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Breakfast in the Virgin lounge and no washing up<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">the secret fast track lounge exit direct into priority boarding<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">A taxi to the hotel&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">arriving before anyone back home had even woken up<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">This is <i>so<\/i> alright.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Within three hours of being left to get bored in a 4.5 star hotel &#8211; duh!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Events have taken quite a turn.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I was by the swimming pool<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">because for some&nbsp;unfathomable&nbsp;reason&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">the hotel did not get the hint that&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m in the top 1% of Trip Advisor reviewers in Melbourne<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">and having rocked up in Sydney before 9am&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">they seemed hell bent&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">in making me wait for a room until the 2pm check in&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-UCFPk59EOnw\/VG2eulDoceI\/AAAAAAAAEto\/ewG1FFFzArc\/s1600\/Sydney6.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-UCFPk59EOnw\/VG2eulDoceI\/AAAAAAAAEto\/ewG1FFFzArc\/s1600\/Sydney6.jpg?resize=640%2C576\" height=\"576\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">When a man without a stitch on, butt naked<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">whistles from a top floor room!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">He&#8217;s standing in front of his glass balcony<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">with all his ermm &#8216;wares&#8217; on display&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I bury my head in my magazine<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">thinking, I don&#8217;t know what I was thinking,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">but I was wondering whether I&#8217;d got an over active imagination&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I carry on reading &#8216;how to make the perfect Christmas pudding&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">or something of that&nbsp;ilk.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">When I hear another whistle, and another model like pose on the balcony<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Woah, what&#8217;s not to like about these business trips?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">At this point I&#8217;m still thinking he knows the bikini lady opposite.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">She ignores the whistles&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">This time he&#8217;s leaning forward on the glass<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">everything&#8217;s squashed but clearly visible.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Sausages in gladwrap come to mind,&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">but maybe, dear readers, that&#8217;s way too much information for you?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">You see despite my sixty million pairs of reading glasses,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">my long range vision has remained &#8216;perfect&#8217;.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Unfortunately<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZpImxjTcU8c\/VG2TqpvKsPI\/AAAAAAAAEtM\/veH2mX2b_5c\/s1600\/Sydney4.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZpImxjTcU8c\/VG2TqpvKsPI\/AAAAAAAAEtM\/veH2mX2b_5c\/s1600\/Sydney4.jpg?resize=602%2C640\" height=\"640\" width=\"602\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Right!&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I gather up my towel<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">and tell a rather surprised pool attendant<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">who is expecting me to announce that my room is finally ready,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">that there&#8217;s a pervert on the 12th Floor and I&#8217;m off to get my camera<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">And &#8216;<i>when I&#8217;ve got a photo, we&#8217;re calling the police<\/i>&#8216; I say!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">&#8216;Ohhhh, is he young?&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><i>&#8216;I&#8217;ve no idea&#8217;<\/i>, I replied,&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><i>&#8216;I wasn&#8217;t looking at his face&#8217;.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Throwing caution to the wind,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m back on my sun lounger, camera ready.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I never stopped to think how I might explain a naked man&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">on my photo stream to my husband this evening&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">When across from the other side of the pool<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">another gent appears&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">a tad over dressed for poolside,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">in a snappy navy suit with a walkie talkie to his ear.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Rats!&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">It&#8217;s management.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I&#8217;ll never get the evidence now.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">He chats to bikini lady, with crackling walkie talkie in hand,&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">he&#8217;s not from the NCIS school of investigation either<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;his head bent back checking out the balconies &#8211; subtle or what?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I guess he&#8217;s going for the&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">deterrent policy&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m still into entrapment&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">He comes to me and I retell the situation.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Magically a room is now available for me,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m ushered away from the pool<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">A key appears, it&#8217;s on the 10th Floor<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><i>&#8216;but I thought we were having an upgrade to the top floor?&#8217;&nbsp;<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><i>&#8216;You are.&nbsp;<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><i>It is.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><i>&nbsp;But I didn&#8217;t want to put you on the same floor&nbsp;<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><i>until we&#8217;ve investigated further!&#8217;<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Does he think that Guy was flashing at Moi ?!!!!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">OMG no wondered they&#8217;re worried.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Horrified fifty something, mother of three,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">just released after twenty&nbsp;+ years of&nbsp;juvenile&nbsp;detention<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">caught up in Sydney sex pest ring.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I too could see the headlines.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-O5hPtW2ApLs\/VG2MWjbQ2pI\/AAAAAAAAEsw\/ZYzj1NthmR0\/s1600\/Sydney.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-O5hPtW2ApLs\/VG2MWjbQ2pI\/AAAAAAAAEsw\/ZYzj1NthmR0\/s1600\/Sydney.jpg?resize=492%2C640\" height=\"640\" width=\"492\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">The hotel goes into full damage limitation mode.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">&#8216;Now can I get you a drink?&#8217; he asks<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Thank you, I ask for a fizzy water.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><i>&#8216;We can do better than that,&nbsp;<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><i>&nbsp;I&#8217;ll also have a bottle of Chardonnay sent to your room&#8217;<\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I retreat to my room&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Later my husband appears<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><i>&#8216;How was your day? 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