Sideswipe: Missing the point

Steve spotted this on his safety card while on a Cebu Pacific flight from Busuanga in March, where the flight attendant briefing included "the oxygen masks do not drop automatically. You open the hatch above your head with a sharp object." Haven't sharp objects already been removed from passengers?

Hooray for humanity

Janet and her husband had a rare trip to the movies last week, where he was dismayed to realise that he had paid for the parking, but forgotten to take the ticket. With the certainty that they would incur a large fine, Janet thought; "What would I do if I had found the ticket?" and reached up to the top of the parking machine. To her surprise, there was their ticket! She says, "To the truly kind and honest person that left it there for us to find - thank you. You restored my faith in human nature."

$20 ... that's just the start

A reader writes, "Last week I decided to buy my niece two tickets to an upcoming fashion show. The tickets were priced at $20 each. The only way to pre-purchase them was to go to iticket's website. What a rort that turned out to be. There was a $5 processing fee, $4 courier charge and because I didn't want to pay by credit card, there was a $2 NZ Post fee. So 2 x $20 tickets turned out to have an $11 admin fee. If purchasing them via the iticket website, why don't they just build that all into the ticket price to start with, rather than letting people think they are buying a $20 ticket when actually they are buying a $25.50 ticket. Buyer beware!"

So much for technology

Paul had a bit of difficulty with Telecom and thought he would try checking his account online instead of waiting in the call queue. The following message appeared on screen after he tried to log on: "We're sorry. To help ensure Your Telecom is available to all customers, you may only sign in once every 5 minutes. Please wait a few minutes before signing in again. "Isn't that hilarious, coming from NZ's biggest technology company?"