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When Tammy Macquarie broke up with her boyfriend last month, she didn’t what to do with herself.
“I just got so used to the nights in. I didn’t think I’d be able to handle single life again”
At 22, Tammy says she is starting to feel worried that if she doesn’t get married soon – there’s no way she’ll be able to own her own house, ever.
“As anyone who lives in Sydney knows, if you even want to get a look into the property market you need two incomes and two sets of parents helping out”
The chances of home ownership were looking good for Tammy, until last week her boyfriend of 18 months decided he wanted to move to Melbourne, now she’s now on her own.
“I’m still really shaken by it. Luckily I have some close girlfriends that came to my side during it all”
Tammy’s close friend, Deidre, had a plan.
“Let’s have a girls night out” she proposed.
“You know, a few drinks, lets have a dance, maybe flirt with some Irish guys in Bondi Junction”
After already spending a whole week of moping, Tammy agreed. They called their two other single friends, Holly and Emma and started getting dolled up.
“We were all sitting around drinking a few sauv blancs at Emma and Holly’s six person sharehouse, which was only a $55 cab ride from the city.”
“We thought we might be able to have a bit of fun locally, but not many venues in the suburbs stay open that late because people always complain about volume. So we thought we’d go straight into the city”
Upon arriving in King’s Cross, the girls were completely blown away by what had happened to the once thriving redlight district.
“There was no one there” said Deidre.
“We got out of the cab and couldn’t hear a sound”
“One of the girls even yelled out ‘hellllo is anyone here!’ – we all laughed at that, until a some baby boomer yelled out of the top window of her 3 million dollar terrace house and told us to keep it down”
Having not been into Kings Cross since they were 18, the girls quickly discovered how much damage had been done to the nightclub district by the recent implementation of Hillsong Sharia – as they wandered down a street that was once so vibrant and busy.
“We felt very unsafe. The only people around were spooky homeless guys and aggressively drunk investment bankers stumbling home from work drinks”
After several cabs around the city, and numerous catcalls from men wearing suits outside of boozy corporate bars, the girls were forced to settle on the only venue that would allow them entry drink past 11pm.
“We decided on The Stockbrokers Trough” said Emma.
“It’s a sportsbar in the city that has the worlds biggest TAB. They said we could come in so long as we behaved ourselves”
It was here that the fun began, the girls found themselves a seat each in a 7x7m air-conditioned pokie room and let loose.
“We even had table service. Although we were limited to one midstrength wine an hour” says Tammy.
“I didn’t even know you could make midstrength wines”
“But it was good for me. Those pokie machines really help take your mind off any sadness you might have in your life”
“I play them all the time now”
MORE TO COME.
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