Clipping the ticket or gouging it?
"So Dad has bought a clean burning fire for his house in Rotorua" writes a reader. "He has to get a permit to get it installed. Cost of burner — $3000 ... Cost of install — $1500 ... Cost of permit — $2700. Nearly three grand for a piece of paper! I just had a look and yep, the $2700 is required as a deposit before they'll even process the application. Might be that the burner goes back and he carries on polluting. Well done Environment BOP."
Pet names
1. "My wife is Hillary and I am Bill so naturally the new cat as the other female in our lives was named Monica Meowski."
2. "We named our black poodle Tarmac. But we said if we ever got a female poodle we'd call her Bitumix!"
