Southerly: I Was Dissed By Three Old Ladies
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Fewer than 10% of local mobility parking permit holders use wheelchairs, though, so I'd have to be prepared to get it wrong and have my bluff called.
But presumably most of them do not skip.
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That might be a giveaway, yes. If only all the heart patients and suchlike were so obvious..
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Still, having to carry someone's shopping seems like a win compared with either embarrassing them or attracting a beating.
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I've occasionally wished for doctors having the ability to write temporary mobility permits (for things like broken toes ....) - I never park in mobility spaces but have found I've very occasionally had a genuine need and couldn't
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It's Christchurch. Need I say more?
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It's Christchurch. Need I say more?
Yes.
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It's Christchurch. Need I say more?
What Philip said.
Cliche isn't argument.
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'Stereotype isn't argument either"
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NO FUCKER LITTERS IN FRONT OF ALAN BOLLARD AND GETS AWAY WITH IT
I'd like this on a t-shirt.
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Isn't there something in Greek mythology whereby the hero used a polished shield as a mirror?
David, limbs trembling with outrage, stepped up, thrust his mirror at the screaming crones and instantly with their faces frozen in perpetuity, silence descended. Even the Moro wrapper stilled in mid-flight. David breathed mist over his trusty mirror, turned to his admiring son Bob, and uttered the immortal words, "............... -
I assume, excepting revenge, the thing to do would be as nice and deferential as possible and allow them to correct the problem without overtly implying that they've done anything wrong. I imagine "I think you dropped this" provides a nice out in this respect, but the problem is it depends on what their particular buttons are.
Obviously, modelling appropriate behaviour had its limits in this case.
I may ask my resident psychologist for suggestions.
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Ian: Perseus did this to avoid being turned to stone by the gaze of Medusa the Gorgon.
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I've picked up rubbish for years and I've finally found the best response when you see someone drop something... especially if it's a cigarette butt...
'Hey, you dropped something.'
They usualy think it's something important and will look around, while you just smile and keep pointing at the item.. some get abusive, some pick it up, and some try and look like they don't give a damn - but you know it got to them... especially if it's in a public place
My friend's love it when I randomly yell it at people on the street, and it never fails to amuse me...
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that they bore more than a passing resemblance to Jabba The Hutt.
Hey, leave the Hutt Valley out of this.
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Stephen I thought that David's crones were clones of Medussa?
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Watch out for that 'self-help' approach. When I was in Toronto a cyclist was assaulted for throwing a hamburger back into the vehicle from which it was ejected.
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David, is the title of your next book "My Second Stabbing"?
Or is that work in progress?
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David, is the title of your next book "My Second Stabbing"?
Or is that work in progress?
Hee!
Or round these parts - Roflenui!
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Which reminds me, I've gone the super-courteous smiley " excuse me, I think you dropped something!" Usually produces a bashful response like "um, yeah, sorry".
But these women clearly wanted to mess up Sumner. Maybe they were anti its current residents because it's got so expensive to buy a house there now?
As for a cure, "Don't Mess with Sumner" doesn't quite have the same ring as the successful "Don't Mess with Texas!" campaign.
Maybe the little fence by the harbour where everyone puts the "Welcome back home"/"Happy Birthday" signs could have an anti-litter message.
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I think that for hard core auto-litterers like that the only real solution is anti-litter road spikes - usually nails and thumbtacks left by previous litterers .....
or if the drop trash beside their car hoping no one will notice run up and set it on fire
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An old one but a goodie that the moment moves me to remind you all of:
And searching around found this one. Topical. Nice to see he is still writing.
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I bet this is why Americans take guns to town hall meetings. Litter bugs are so dam annoying, you can never be over armed.
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It's Christchurch. Need I say more?
Well, I was going to write a post about how Christchurch is the most violent City in New Zealand but not being James Bremner and this not being kiwiblog, I bothered to check my "Facts" first.
Apparently the belief that Christchurch is a dangerous place is a misapprehension coming from the residents of that very City, a point made by New Zealand Police
This illustrates a phenomena that is only too common, the white god fearing middle class feeling threatened by the yoof and gangs and drugs and "other" people.
We all get old and yet we remain the same. We are born with a sense of entitlement, grow up with a sense of entitlement and grow old feeling that, by now, we must be entitled. In our little world, the British Commonwealth, the last people who actually deserved to be entitled to some kind of advantage are now over seventy, those that fought in the last word war and those that just went without to support the commonwealth.
That sense of responsibility, selflessness and pride is, unfortunately, slipping into the past.
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