Wippa Paid $150 For A Kebab?!

The cost of living crisis has officially gotten out of control. We know Wip’s a big hungry boy but how did this even happen?!  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Fitting In with Kate Richie podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Can I tell you we've been talking a lot about
the cost of getting around these days, and I never
thought a kebab would cost me one hundred and fifty
dollars what Let me explain the expensive hero husband move
I went for on Saturday night.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Was at fifteen and they put in an extra zero.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
It wasn't it wasn't a mistake, right, It was the
cost of what I needed to do to make sure
that my wife was happy. And we've all been in
those situations where we've thought to ourselves, whatever I have
to do right now to make sure that I don't
hear anymore winging, I'm going to do it.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Well, I'm thinking more about the winging hinge.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
So we've been at lunch. We'd been at a fortieth.
It started at one o'clock in the afternoon, rolling, sit
down feast, all very lovely. Cut to eleven thirty at
night and it's I'm hungry. The hotel room didn't do
any food and we're out of town, but the main
street had one offering a kebab shop.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Now, don't get me wrong, at that time, when you
are so hungry, I would actually pay one hundred and
fifty dollars for a kebab.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
There is nothing better.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
There's nothing better.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
You extra extra meat though, always extra extra.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
I don't go garlic sauce as well, because I know
how I do horrific. It's going to be in about
six hours when you wake up.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
I'm not going to care about anyone else.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Noither do I. I don't count what extra extra extra me.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
You can still wrap that thing then stuff it in there.
So we walked down the street. We're marching down the
street and she's doing a whole lot of I'm hungry.
What is the hotel serf food? I'm going honey, were
you drunk of this stage? You got questions?

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Eleven thirty regional town looking for one hundred and too
many massas all over at one o'clock star, Oh, we
perhas to drink if he has to go out of
the country anyway.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
That's not true. So we get to the kebab shop.
There's a line all around the corner, all the way
around the corner, and there's a party on going down
the street and it's like it's a UNI scene. So
it's young people. I reckon average age nineteen, So these
kids are dancing. There's out in the front of this

(02:31):
other bar. There's decks on the street and having a
great time. And I'm looking at this que and I'm
standing at the back of it looking like daggy Dad,
you know, in machinos at eleven thirty at night and
a forty five minute wait for the kebab.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
So no other kid was wearing a gampart, were.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Tucked into their gino with a beautiful loafer, and you
don't want any garlic sauce on your loafer. So I
said to Lisa, said, what are we going to do?
And I said, leave it with me. Walk straight to
the front of the line. And there's two girls there
who are up next. And I said to the girls, Hey,
I'm sorry to do this, but I think I've got

(03:09):
a plan that could work for both of us. What
if I was to buy your kebabs and I could
put my order in with you and then everybody wins.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
It's not a bad idea. And she says, oh, you
would pay for kebabs the unique students. Yeah, I'll pay
for your kebabs. We can get that done and I'll
get the kebabs. So I ordered the kebabs and we
get them. So four kebabs paid for bang and I'm
back out on the street. I walk out with those
wrapped up in for your kebabs, one for me, one
for Lisa, like I have just won a gold medal,

(03:39):
like I'm kissing it and holding it.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
In the air. It was extraordinary to see this chubby,
forty five middle aged man storming through past the crowd
with the kebab, like like it was a magic trick.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
I'm still trying to work out four kebabs, aren't one hundred?

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Haven't finished? Not finished. We sit down on the park benches.
It's kind of falling out of the kebab and we're
eating it. She turns to me and says, you know
I don't like lamb. Oh gosh, I'll tell your story
walk and Lida what you got my And then it

(04:17):
went into you got my coffee order wrong this morning.
We've been married for eleven years and I've never eaten
lamb in my life, and You've got me a lamb
kebab and I'm dancing around it because I'm still in
my moment of glory. I'm thinking I'm hero of the day.
What did you get and I said, honey, there's no
there's nothing else. There's no chicken, there's nothing else. I've
offered you food which you needed, and I've magically done it.

(04:39):
Straight to the front of the queue, she said, do
they have chips?

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Don't do this to me?

Speaker 2 (04:47):
So she said, could you just go and see if
they have chips? What there? I walked to the back
of the line again. I have a look, poked my
head around the corner like I'm indicating to overtake, and
I go straight to the front. I see one girl
and I go up and I say, Hey, if I
buy your kebab, can I put in an order for
chips now? She says, yeah, sure, But I'm with my

(05:07):
friends Tracy and Sharon, and I said, well, okay, I'll
buy them a kebab as well. So I buy another
three kebabs to buy the chips.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Hey, while I've got you guys, watch your non scientific
yardstick of whether someone's rich.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
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