Martin Stockdale thought a younger David Shearer, the new leader of the Labour Party, reminded him of Tom Hanks (right).
Extreme gift-wrapping
Sally waited in a queue at a North Shore mall to have her two purchases gift-wrapped. "The woman at the head of the queue kept handing over small boxes of chocolates, out of a cavernous bag, to be wrapped individually in expensive paper with a silver bow ... After eight boxes, I thought she must be finished ... But no, she produced a packet of Choysa tea from her bag for wrapping. The assistant looked up and suggested that she had better help the rest of us first. This woman huffed then said she would wait. I wonder how many packets of tea may have been produced."
Lingerie lingerers
Many readers responded to Mary, who tersely suggested that men shouldn't be in lingerie shops, like this: "On behalf of 99 per cent of men who would prefer to be almost anywhere than in the women's clothing department 'shopping', most of us are imagining being somewhere else. We may have our eyes open, but we aren't there."
