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So, I grab a bucket, and stroll across the street, my eye firmly fixed on the massive black olives on the tree in the front yard of the house across the road, ignoring the bloke sitting in a toyota at the kerb.
When my neighbour departed for the city, he told me to help myself.
There I am, picking massive big plump olives, way bigger than the first joint on my thumb, when a flash Statesman pulls up out front.
Out gets the local estate agent, who happened to marry one of my neighbour's daughters (lucky man, she's gorgeous).
"Good day, Mick" says he.
"Good day, Nathian," says I "What's occurring?"
"Inspection by potential buyer," he says.
"Oh," says I, "Shall I bugger off?"
"Nah," says Nathian, "Carry on, can't have them going to waste."
So, after assuring the potential buyer who was sitting in the toyota at the kerb
, that he would be buying the best olive trees in town, and explaining that black olives are green olives that have stayed on the tree longer, and that the ones that look a bit different are different because my neighbour grafted branches of Kalamatas onto the Verdale trees, I picked a bucket of black olives, and legged it. 
When my neighbour departed for the city, he told me to help myself.
There I am, picking massive big plump olives, way bigger than the first joint on my thumb, when a flash Statesman pulls up out front.
Out gets the local estate agent, who happened to marry one of my neighbour's daughters (lucky man, she's gorgeous).
"Good day, Mick" says he.
"Good day, Nathian," says I "What's occurring?"
"Inspection by potential buyer," he says.
"Oh," says I, "Shall I bugger off?"
"Nah," says Nathian, "Carry on, can't have them going to waste."
So, after assuring the potential buyer who was sitting in the toyota at the kerb
, that he would be buying the best olive trees in town, and explaining that black olives are green olives that have stayed on the tree longer, and that the ones that look a bit different are different because my neighbour grafted branches of Kalamatas onto the Verdale trees, I picked a bucket of black olives, and legged it.
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