Tell us what you love about life in New Zealand - and what needs to change. Email rantandrave@nzherald.co.nz
Rant
Every day on my way to work on the Southern Motorway, I see at least six drivers texting while driving. They drive slowly, blocking the vehicles behind them and adding to the traffic woes.
Sanjeev Damle
Rave
Who needs electric Christmas lights when you have pohutukawa? Thanks to Westfield Albany, Kristin school and the council for the planting of small pohutukawa - the drive from the mall in Albany, where the carpark is a sea of red, down the Albany Highway is a picture. Thank you.
Eddie Charlett-Green
Rant
The lack of courtesy in car parks happens to me way too often in Westfield, St Lukes when some drivers cannot bother giving reversing cars the chance to do so and would rather just drive behind through the tiny gap available. No one wants to cause an accident so please show some courtesy.
Ash Kay
Rave
A thousand thanks to the lovely Korean lass who approached me outside the Wairau Rd Pak 'n Save and handed me a beautiful, hand-made card, and a $20 Pak 'n Save voucher. I told her I'd hand on the voucher - and have - but I'll keep the card as a momento of a wonderful random act of kindness. (It was a timely reminder to me to be kinder, too: I'd just been feeling a bit grumpy about another motorist's driving skills!)
Christine G
