A tenting journey on Farmer Desires A Spouse will get extra foul than the communal lengthy drop when phrase spreads about one of many metropolis woman’s secret plan to ditch the cattle station and turn out to be Australia’s first FIFO CWA girl.
Nicely, that’s not fully true. Relating to FIFO, she has no want to ever fly in … simply fly out. Realistically, her intentions are to WFH remotely — often placing in a Zoom name to the homestead from her studio residence within the massive smoke, identical to the agriculture pioneers of the 1860s meant.
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“That is attractive!” one of many women shrieks because the fleet of LandCruisers rumbles down right into a distant patch of deserted land.
“That is the nicest tenting I’ve ever accomplished in my life!” one other girl beams. “It’s extra like glamping!”
The digicam pans to indicate a useless animal carcass that has begun fossilising within the dried-up river mattress.
“I introduced the fallacious footwear!” Calya whines as she trots her platform boots over the terrain.
Being uncovered to the tough parts on this hellish expedition is a stark reminder of the life that awaits Calya, ought to Farmer Joe choose her as his spouse.
“The farm life is completely new to me. I got here into this as a career-driven girl with my very own life,” the fledgling stylist declares to a random woman from one of many different harems.
“There’s loads of questions on my thoughts. I’m a metropolis woman via and thru. Within the subsequent 5 years, I don’t see myself dwelling full-time on a farm.”
This daring declaration travels across the campsite and, inside minutes, the opposite girls in Farmer Joe’s clan discover out. Keely is especially infuriated. Simply final week, Calya accused HER of being nothing however a dishonest metropolis woman with zero curiosity in dwelling on the farm. Ha! How the tables have turned.
Keely grins. Used accurately, this intel might destroy her nemesis. Excellent revenge! She plans to ship Calya again to the massive smoke quicker than a same-day supply from The Iconic.
Calya doesn’t realise the hazard she’s in. Possibly its vanity. She’s nonetheless stomping across the campsite in her chunky platform boots, telling everybody about how she’s gonna be a FIFO farmer’s spouse.
“For me, within the subsequent 5 years, I don’t see myself dwelling full-time on the farm,” she sighs once more.
Keely lunges out from behind a tree trunk that has been rotted by termites.
“You don’t even wanna be right here!” she says witheringly.
Calya shrugs. “You don’t know that.”
Keely furrows her forehead. “You’ve actually simply mentioned that.”
To Calya, the reality is malleable. “I can have my opinion, thanks.”
“I’m over ya outbursts,” Keely snaps. “I’m over the way in which you see life. I simply really feel such as you don’t wanna be right here. I don’t know why you’re inflicting stuff if you don’t wanna be right here. And also you’re speaking about being trustworthy however there’s been so many occasions when you haven’t been trustworthy.”
Often, this present is a healthful ray of sunshine. But it surely appears Calya comes from the varsity of Married At First Sight the place she has learnt the invaluable life talent of gaslighting.
“Shut up Keely, you sound so egocentric,” Calya brushes off her nemesis.
As taught in Gaslighting 101, a press release like that is assured to push your annoyed opponent to the brink and illicit an explosive response that can, in flip, make them appear utterly irrational.
“Whooooa! No, that’s sufficient!” Keely growls. “I’m not dealin’ with that. If I will be utterly trustworthy, I’d simply favor to by no means speak to you once more.”
Calya maintains a gentle voice and a perplexed facial features. This ensures clueless onlookers robotically assume she’s the sufferer.
Calya’s lack of response sparks an even bigger response from Keely.
“She lashed out once more!” Keely tries convincing us, earlier than pledging to reveal her nemesis to Farmer Joe. “She instructed me to close up! I’m accomplished!”
OK, Keely, that’s sufficient — we’ve had it with the accusations. You’re being loopy and, frankly, extraordinarily impolite to Calya. We demand you apologise to her when she subsequent Zooms into the farm from her residence within the metropolis.
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