maroon5

hey team,

big ups today go out to scotty, for letting me borrow snowy for the past while, and jono and dwaine for giving me a lift to get my car yesterday.

Yes, i've bought a new car.

i'll try post some pics tommorrow.
For those who are interested in stuff, its a 1992 nissan avenir station wagon.
maroon, 5sp, 1500cc, with 143,000kms on the clock.

should go well.
now for the next part.
the car formally known as 'big D' was just that, it was loved, it had a nickname.
so i need a nickname for my new car. i know its abit hard, if you haven't seen it, but give me some creative genius.

thoughs so far:

'maroon5'
'medium P'
'lil red riding hood'

go on, see if you can do better.

coming to a hood near you soon.

chur.

tribute

Toyota Corona 2.0D (1995 - 2005) R.I.P.

328239

A trusty stallion, reliable friend, and long supporting ride.

Yeah, I didn't anticiapte this day coming for a while yet, but alas, the insurance company won't fork out to fix her up, so fairwell sweet D. thanks for the fun times.
I had a moments silence with her last night, and said goodbye to the many things i'll miss, - the missing hubcap, the diesel stains on the boot, the familiar rumble when she kicks into life, the squeaky fan belt, the hill climbing mis-ability.

when I get home tonight she'll be gone forever.

'raises glass in general direction' - take it easy big 'D'.

peace.

impact

hey kids,

well, i guess big 'D' finally bit off more then he can chew. heh
got rear ended on the way to work today. it was my first 'real' car crash, so i now have to got through the whole insurance process, which should be challenging.
hopefully big d makes it through and lives to ride another day. but we'll see.
its hard to tell, casue the chassis might have been damaged a bit, so we'll just have to wait and see.
i'm good, we'll catch you all later.

take care kids
carl.

schedule

this post goes out to my flat mates

long time, no see. hope you're doing okay, should be home tonight between the hours of 6 and 7, maybe we should do dinner?

cheers,

carl.

p.s. let me know what you've been up to?

what does a good Samaritan look like?

hey kids.

had a thoroughly enjoyable weekend, and as an added bonus went to the travel doctors and got hooked up with three vaccinations and a blood test. niiiicce! so that was fun, but on our journey back to the car park, me and neal (holla!) saw a couple of aisan ladies in a distressing parkig scenario? they had the real wheel right flush against the kerb nearly scrapping the hubcap, and the front tyre pointing towards the road at rather a large angle.

we walked past, stopped. did the, 'should we? nah, yeah? oh, i spose?'
neal bravely went back and initiated contact.
we tried the old, 'yeah, you've got plenty of room just keep coming forward' but that worked to no avail, so then the old. okay, go the other way back into the kerb, but they weren't really feeling that either, so neal saw an opportunity, one of those unspoken communications, which responded in the driver saying 'do you want to do it?'

once he got used to the dash shift auto whatever transmission he was away laughing and had them out of the their spot of bother in no time. he left the car pointing out to the road with the hazard lights on with plenty of room to manoeuvre.

so we patted ourselves on the back, said, 'thanks, see ya later'. and carried on our merry way.
it wasn't until after we got back to my car and were driving back down the road past them, that our moment of helpfulness was shattered, they were trying to get into a car park, not out of one.

heh, a brief laugh, but it bought forward some deeper issues, especially as we prepare to go to cambodia
if we don't assess the situation accurately, we could easily do more harm then good over there, and think that because its a western way of doing things, it must be the right way. i mean, in the above example all me and neal had to do was ask, 'are you trying to get out?' instead of just presuming and we could have fixed their dilemna.
if we had driven off the other way down the road, we would never have known that we didn't fix the problem and would have been patting ourselves on our backs all the way home.

anyway, just something to ponder.

take care cuzzies.

carl.

postage

mic check 1, check 1 2.
well, a big truck just pulled up outside with 8 big round bales of hay on the back,
you know, the ones you see when you go for a drive outside akld, stacked up in farmers paddocks and stuff. sometimes with spraypainted smily faces and sometimes wrapped in plastic besides hedges (baledge).

yeah, so what are they doing in the middle of manukau city? your guess is a good as mine.
it brought back lotsa memories of long summer nights, tractors, digging thistles out of thighs and hands. cold swims at the beach.
oh, if everyone could have a nice farming upbringing?

wowsers. enough with the memories already. one day when these other bloggers get their (b) into (g), anita - yes you (Men), jono (sundays), i might bring you a post about the merits of this little great place i know - owakie. no promises thou.

go now and bring peace and love to your families.

customer service

hows this for a change in attitude?

Petrol stations are bringing back pump attendants in an attempt to stop frustrated motorists driving off without paying for fuel.
hows that for customer service?
you can read more about it here


it would have been funny to listen to the conversation between the guys that made that decision.

- 'hey trev, how are we gonna stop these crazy people stealing our fuel?'

- 'dunno trev, maybe we should have our people put the fuel in their cars?'

- 'didn't we used to do that?'

- 'yeah, i think so, dunno why we stopped?'

it appears the takanini gull has been the hardest hit, so if you want good service, go there!

peace.

crazy

okay. bear with me.

heres conversation i had with the papkura police last night 10.08pm

me -'yeah g'day, um some dude just chucked something at my car about 10 minutes ago, while i was just coming through southmall.

police - 'did you get his registration no?'

me - 'nah, it was just a dude standing on the side of the road'

police - 'really?'

me - 'yeah, i just saw him pull his arm back out of the corner of my eye, and then next minute, there was a big bang as something broke against my car, i think it was a bottle?'

police - 'well, i'm afraid we can't do much unless you want to come down and file a report'

me 'oh nah, i was just gonna see if you wanted to send a car to check it out or anything?'

police, yeah, well normally we would but we've already had two fatals this evening, so all our cars are taken up'

me - 'oh REAL? oh okay, um yeah well don't worry bout it then..'

police - 'yeah, sorry, but thanks for the call anyway'

so i'm still struggling to come to terms with everything. i mean firstly, my initail reaction was to stop my car and yell at the dude or something, but quickly my brain decided that wasn't a solid option, seeing as i'm quite the 'weeman', and the chances of the dude being drunk or on 'p' and wanting a fight or something were highly reasonable, so i just let it go. but hearing that there were 2 fatals in my area last night. STRAIGHT UP FREAKY.
thats no good, and also the shortage of cops in our community, how long before people start taking the law into the own hands and coming up with their own form of justice.
today i'm kinda feeling sorry for the cops though, flip, i mean, i wouldn't want to work for an organisation that was understaffed, not liked or respected, and having the extremely difficult job of dealing with the victims families.

this one goes out to the boys in blue. Keep it up.

in other news, we took some of the trinity boys out to hunua falls yesterday arvo.
shot anybody that's jumped off that and survived, SOLID!

it was good times, all the boys seemed to have fun and the drizzle and nobody fell off, so it twas good.

which brings me to my quote of the week, so far:

'your car's not very fast' - daniel jeffery, stating the obvious.

peace kids.

word out.