Sideswipe: Stretch your wings

Victor says this photo (and he has plenty more) shows the state of some vehicles presented for a WOF. Photo / Supplied

Stretch your wings

This year's City Mission Christmas Become Someone's Angel appeal is terrific. Snap yourself or a friend wearing wings (located around Auckland CBD) and post it on their Facebook wall. For every angel posted, $5 will be donated by their sponsor to the Christmas Appeal.

Contacting the departed

A reader writes: "My partner died a while ago and one of my belated tasks was to let ACC know why his account with them was overdue. I sent a copy of his death certificate and a covering letter to the ACC payment support team. When I found a message on my answer machine this week, asking my partner to call them about his account, I assumed the letter had not reached the right person. But I was told they just wanted to confirm they had, indeed, received his death certificate."

Fatherhood on the run

A reader noticed the van of Jim Bagnall from the Coalition of Fathers (a group that holds noisy protests outside homes of Family Court judges and female MPs they consider "anti-father") in a disabled space outside McDonald's Kelston with no mobility parking permit on display. They assume his monthly "Happy Meal" time with his kids is so limited that walking an extra 5m is an imposition on his fatherhood.

Granny was right after all

"Herald readers having a whinge about Twitter is like hearing your granny bleat 'that's not music, it's just noise' said a twitterer after Peter from Westmere concurred with research saying Twitter was for narcissists. "Turns out Granny was right," responds Peter. "Gimme Gershwin over Kanye West. She was also right about how sex is better when you love the other person, smoking is bad for you, how young people today have no manners and ... and ..."

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