I was in Brisbane around Remebrance Sunday 2005. There were a couple of squaddies selling poppies on the street by a bus-stop. There were several benches, mostly unoccupied, & these guys had put their gear on one bench, taking up maybe a couple of places. As I was buying poppies for myself & my family a young lady walked past, took one look at them & yelled "those benches are for people waiting for busses to sit on; not for you to set up a stall!"
I wanted to yell back that if it wasn't for these guys' fore-runners there might not have been a bench at all.
Sadly though, my flabber was just too gasted & I just stood there open-mouthed.
