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As Mel Adams (28) snuggles up on her parent’s 16 year old three seater couch in front of a toasty 17-fin oil heater, a thought enters her millennial mind.
They just don’t make em’ how they used to.
After shivering her tits off all week inside her shitty share house in the city, it’s believed this weekend Mel decided she’d shave some money off her monthly power bill, and head back to Betoota Grove to stay at her parents leafy heritage home.
Lured back with the promise of a fridge full of snacks, a cupboard full of booze and a seemingly endless supply of electricity, Mel says she’s happier than a pig in mud as she spends her Saturday night dozing on the couch watching her favourite season of Greys Anatomy.
With both her parents away in Europe enjoying one of their weird bi-annual hiking adventures, Mel has told The Advocate it’s great to not have to consider the cost of her current power usage.
“God it’s good not having to worry, I’ve got heaters running in every room and my old electric blanket warming up my bed. Yippee!”
Watching on as her parent’s old column heater sporadically flicks on and off every 20 minutes, Mel can’t help but be impressed by the sheer strength of heat blaring off the trusty family warmer, which her Dad has rolled out from the cupboard under the stairs every winter since she was a toddler”
“God it’s got some go go hey!” said Mel, as she wiped a few beads of sweat off her brow.
“I reckon it’d heat up this room quicker than 100 of the Anko fans that I’ve got in my sharehouse. It’s almost so hot I might have to turn the air con on, any chance you could hand me the remote?”
More to come.
