Colm O'Regan: We all need Sound Men, especially when we have to reverse a trailer in a dump

"The civic amenity is good for mental health until you try to back a trailer into a Bulky Waste Bay, though. Which is what I was trying to do. I’d never reversed a car with a trailer before."

Columnist, broadcaster, comedian and author Colm O'Regan pictured in the Maryborough Hotel. Picture: Chani Anderson

“Rome wasn’t built in a day.” The kindest sentence I heard this week. Said to me by the man at the civic amenity.

For anyone not familiar, the “civic amenity” is another name for the recycling centre which, in turn, was the new name for the dump.