Tourist bullying

Yesterday Ayah picked up Uncle Oskar Vitriano at Melbourne airport, yes, he's in town for a short holiday before going home for good. He's finished his master's degree in public policy (majoring in dime digging, haha) and have planned to use his last days in the country to visit neighboring states, such as New South Wales (where Sydney is) and Victoria (THE place to be, as you know it already), and...that's pretty much it.

So today we take him for a sight seeing around the city center. We wanted to go to Ballarat-Sovereign Hill initially, but it's going to be raining today so no further discussion on that, the place will be so damp and since it's a semi outdoor activity, there's no fun in it anymore if it's raining.

We headed for Flinders station first, St Paul's cathedral, and on we went ended up in the famous arcade where Koko Black is located. It was almost 6pm and the shops were already closed, but the arcade was so much of an art that we wanted Uncle Oskar to have a picture there. We took positions and I was looking for a steady ground to put my camera so we can have a picture using the automatic feature.All of a sudden, a friendly man offered to take the pic for us. At first I thought, oh another nice stranger. We said okay and gave him a little instruction on what we wanted to see as the background for the pic...first try it was really shaky, so I honestly said to him that we wanted another one becos the first one was blurry. Some strangers actually care about the result and willing to re-do if we're not satisfied. Apparently this is not the case this time, bcos Mr Stranger Man had this strange look when I asked him the second time. Obviously he took the pic again for us involuntarily, bcos it was still blurry! Oh well. Omar whispered, this man helped us becos he wanted to lock the building, he's the SECURITY! LOL. No wonder why he offered the help, he wanted all of us fly off the scene ASAP! LOL. And we just gave up and decided to just be content by the pics we could take home that day. Don't mess with him, LOL.

The moral of the story I guess is to always pay attention to your surrounding, not everyone is a genuine helper, lol. And perhaps...just beware of tourist bullies!