Tycho

 

Walking out of the theater where we'd held our talk, I was accompanied down to a signing by an attendee of the show who offered to break it down for me. To hear him tell it, Australians pay more for things because they are paid more for things. It is a strange place in this regard. The first time I went, my reservation had been moved to a new hotel, and the luggage dude was like hey, the new place is close. I'll help you get your shit over there. I'm paraphrasing, obviously. But let's be clear: I had no reservation at his hotel. And he used one of their luggage racks to push an extended family's worth of shit almost two blocks. And then he wouldn't accept a tip. He said, "I'm paid enough." I had to look up that last word; I don't think we have that here.

He was actually running the door at that hotel this year, he had a little podium and shit, and I was like, yeah. That's how it's supposed to work.