My Dad, the All Black: Part 2

By SANDY McKAY

"How long have you been here, Mrs McCann?" the man in the brown corduroy jacket asks, thrusting the microphone under her nose.

The camera man zooms up close for a good look at this crazy lady. Fancy lining up for two days to get tickets to a rugby game. You'd have to be mad, don't you reckon?

"No," says Mum, "not at all."

"I've been here for 18 hours so far," she tells the corduroy jacket with the microphone."Eighteen hours," he says, repeating this embarrassing fact for all to hear.

"Well, good for you.""I wouldn't miss this game for the world," Mum continues, running her fingers through her 'Sahara Gold" locks as corduroy jacket swoops in closer."

As soon as I heard we'd made the final I grabbed my sleeping bag and headed straight down.

"How many tickets are you buying?" asks the man. "Just two. One for me and one for my son."

Publisher: Longacre Press

Price: $14.95

Age group: 9-13 years