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Because I already went there yesterday to take them, and I'll tell you where to go next time.

Why haven't you bought big batteries for the old fashioned radio and torch for camping?

Do you mean those big C or D batteries or bigger, that we all used at one time? I forgot to check which one was necessary before I went to the Supermarket, where I couldn't see either in the battery section. Have you considered buying a solar-powered radio to go camping with?

You didn't refill the petrol tank after that long car journey you took yesterday, & now the petrol tank is empty.

There was no need to refill it, because I'm just about to surprise you with an all-new eco-friendly electric car!

You forgot to shut the gate of the top paddock and now there are kangaroos in it.

I was distracted and I thought I had shut the gate so I didn't worry about it.

You forgot the salmon I put on the shopping list now how am I to make fish and chips?

Aussies (and Brits for that matter) don't use salmon for fish and chips, so there was no way I was going to let anyone else do so either.

You didn't tell me there was a sale on at my favourite clothes shop and I missed out on it!

How could I tell you, when you were so far away now, that your favourite clothes shop went bankrupt, the day before the sale, due to mismanagement of the new local franchise holder, & had to close abruptly when the police arrived?

Why didn't you order our pizza from a reputable longstanding store, not that fancy-schmancy new outfit that turned up overnight & didn't deliver the pizza anyway?

Because the reputable longstanding store that I used to always get our pizzas from has recently closed down. (this actually happened to me once, back in Melbourne)

You didn't mend the fly screens like you said you would and now the house is full of mosquitoes.

I was too distracted killing the mosquitoes that were already in the house.

You set mousetraps all over the kitchen in places where people might stick their hands, and now I have a sore finger!

Weren't you lucky that I was only two hours late for movie night when due to construction work over the holidays replacing an important railway bridge, the road was closed for about a week, & we got lost whilst we meandered around the entire district on the detours indicated.

Why don't you listen to whichever Super Sally is on that great fantastic GPS gadget you were saying is so wonderful, when you got lost the other day getting to your brother's place?

Super Sally directed me to drive down a cycle path and when I went the other way, she got into a sulk saying "Recalculating... recalculating... recalculating..." (That actually happened to me once!)

Why didn't you email me about the concert instead of just posting about it on Facebook? Not everyone is on Facebook.

I forgot your email address & thought everyone else was on Facebook, Twitter or whichever.

Why didn't you realise you would be fined for washing your car on the road with so much rationed water, instead of taking it to the car wash?

King Erlian wrote:Super Sally directed me to drive down a cycle path and when I went the other way, she got into a sulk saying "Recalculating... recalculating... recalculating..." (That actually happened to me once!)

Back seat driver or what?

I've been living for so long in England that I keep forgetting that some parts of the world (like where I grew up) have water restrictions.

Why were you out in the park with so many other people gathering around when we're all supposed to be doing social distancing??

When at first I took our dog to the leash free dog area in the park, I was on my own, apart from our cute collie, so why are all these people suddenly surrounding me as if I am a freak?

Why didn't you get some more dog food when you went shopping yesterday, when I put it on the shopping list?

I was shopping at the hardware store, which doesn't have dog food...

You said you'd fix the chimney flue, but the family room is still filling with smoke whenever the fire is lit.

When I tried to get a tradesman to come, to do the job, I was told that chimney flues were to be phased out to not only reduce the pollution in the atmosphere, fire risks, and wasteful over-use of timber, but also they were to be replaced by temperature-controlled reverse-cycle air conditionioning, instead.

You still haven't found the blue print used for the building of Hadrian's Wall, between England & Scotland.