Sideswipe: Nov 24: The bibbed crusader

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Can't they see that after my nap I'll be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound?

Cheesed off at Burger King
Darrell Watt writes: "At the Albany Burger King drive-through my son wanted to redeem a cheeseburger voucher. As he doesn't like cheese, I ordered a hamburger (intending to use the cheese burger voucher as we've previously done without an issue). At the window, a pleasant young lady emphatically stated the voucher could not be used on a hamburger. Decided on a change of tactic so ordered a cheeseburger without cheese, which they happily produced and happily redeemed the voucher. What more can I say?"

Tooling around with knives
When I was 19, after moving into my first flat, in Castle St, Dunedin, I decided to make a poster board. We had no tool to trim the board. 'No problemo' I thought. That's what kitchen knives are for. After much vigorous sawing I'd nearly finished when ... slip. Blade met flesh, nearly sliced my index finger off. Over 20 years later, the scar is still there. Do you have a scar story to tell?

Fuzzy-headed security staff
Those airport x-ray machines can see through your clothes, but apparently not through your hair. Laura Adiele was catching a flight out of Seattle when a security agent stopped her to pat down her afro. "They put the gloves on and now they're just digging around in my hair and I'm like, arrgg! Why is this happening?" she said. (Source: reason.com)

Leave those kids alone!
Shane says indoctrinating children in their parents' politics is shameful. "Every weekend for a few weeks, a particular roundabout is lined with children dressed in blue waving National Party placards. It's quite distressing and I don't remember it happening in past campaigns."