Rob and Ben - future Brisbane City Council bus drivers

After a hurried appointment with the accountant this morning (copy-writing makes me a sole trader, who would have thought?) and brunch at West End, Rob, Ben and I went into the Museum of Brisbane (MoB) to pick up some ‘I <3 BNE‘ t-shirts. Modelled on the traditional ‘I <3 NYC’ tees, the Brisbane versions feature a green heart instead of the standard red, and are part of the Brisbane City Council’s push to make Brisbane a carbon neutral haven. At the moment the council has stands set up in all the local shopping centres to give advice and help to locals about making their homes and workplaces more environmentally friendly. All of the staff manning the booths and stands wear the ‘I Love BNE’ shirts, and the MoB is the only place you can buy them for personal use. As two travel-worn pop-culture fanatics, Rob and I had to get some.

While we were in the museum we noticed that part of the present exhibition is the scaled-down front of a Brisbane City Council bus, complete with a box full of bus-driver uniforms. Rob and Ben jumped behind the wheel and acted like all B.C.C. bus drivers do… like total lunatics.