Tell us what you love about life in New Zealand - and what needs to change. Email rantandrave@nzherald.co.nz
Rave
A big thank-you to the lovely lady who paid our parking fee with a $10 note at Auckland Airport on Sunday when our Eftpos card didn't work in the pay machine. We didn't know how to get our parking ticket back out and were starting to get anxious. I hope you read this and will know how much we appreciated your kindness. Thanks also to the people behind us who were so patient.
Jim & Pat
Rant
Estate agents who phone in the evening having got my number, call me by my first name and ask if I want to sell my home make me angry. Unfortunately, I am too polite to tell them what I really think. If and when I decide to sell, I certainly won't be calling them. Some of my neighbours are equally harassed.
Margaret
Rave
Our faith in teenage boys has been restored. After the torrential rain one morning this week, a young man named Felix from Mt Albert Grammar School removed his jumper and wiped down the bus-stop seat outside Parkside Cafe so two elderly gentlemen could sit down. He did so without hesitating and without being asked. Well done, Felix.
David and Nicola Tombs
Rant
When will the short-sighted council see the serious need for an efficient monorail system to ferry overseas passengers from Auckland Airport into the CBD? All they have to do is build it next to the motorway system. New Zealand and Auckland in particular are way behind in this area. Come on, council, get with the programme.
Maxine
