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Spero Bartzis, a 62-year-old from Brisbane’s West End, has spent the last 3 and half hours hosing down his concrete driveway.
The weathered grandfather of twenty-seven smiles as he blasts a high-powered garden hose onto his ‘front lawn’ – when asked why he dedicates so much time and water to this task, Mr Bartzis simply responds “It’s Friday, moit”
Often referred to as ‘the Greek broom’ – the Southern-European practice of hosing down driveways has been a hot topic for local politicians for many years now, with a large contingent of non-Greek Australians complaining that the decadent practice is a blatant and unnecessary waste of resources.
However, Mr Bartzis, who migrated to Brisbane from the Greek island of Kithira in the late 60’s, says today he “doesn’t give a fuck what those skippy pricks” have to say – especially when they can’t even win a match of soccer against Denmark.
“They need a real soccer country out there” he says, referring to his home country’s exclusion from the 2018 World Cup.
“After this I’m going to go hose down the front of me shop, after that I’ll hose down my mothers place. I work hard for this water,”
“If only the Greeks back home could remember hard work like us Greeks in Australia”
“Australia would have one last night if they had more Greeks like Cahill”
“Shoulda put Cahill on”
