Heavy-handed: "Where do they plan to tow your car for $430 ... Hamilton?" writes this reader.
True love never fades
"In Wellington, 56 years ago, I was having a love affair with an attractive young lady," writes a reader from Whangarei. "We were skylarking and I went through a glass door. Lots of blood. Nearly died. Untidy scar across right shoulder. After I had healed, she said: 'Marry me, or leave me.' I left. Later, she married someone else and I did too. After over 40 years of successful marriages, her husband died and my wife died and we met again accidentally in Auckland. We made the most of this second chance and now live together in Whangarei, complete with untidy scar across right shoulder."
Key to unlocking mystery
"In the supermarket carpark today I saw a woman get in the car beside mine and attempt to start the engine, only for it to make the most dreadful noise," writes Linda. "She gets back out of the car, and explains, 'Wrong car'. I wasn't sure what she meant until she got into an identical make, model and colour car on the other side of my vehicle, and drove off. Her car keys had opened a stranger's identical car! Am I naive to think that a car key is meant to open only the car it belongs to?"
