Sam was on Plunket Ave in Manukau and saw this BMW parked in a disabled parking space displaying no certificate. "Somebody was obviously annoyed enough to wrap the car in cling film. Wonder what the owner thought when he/she came out of their meeting?"
Xmas great time for payback
"Quite some years ago, my wife asked me what I would like for Christmas," writes Harry. "I told her a chainsaw would be good, for the firewood. On Christmas morning, the whole family dissolved into laughter as I opened a nicely wrapped axe. But, I got my own back the following Christmas. My wife had been moaning about the old-fashioned wooden toilet seat that had a crack in it and every time she sat on it, her bum got pinched and she'd been nagging me to replace it. On Christmas morning, she couldn't wait to open this beautifully packaged box with the most elaborate ribbon around it. You only had to look at it to know it contained a designer label dress, and yet ... on enthusiastically ripping into the parcel, she found a wonderful modern lavatory seat. Revenge was sweet."
Master of the strange gift
Romance is overrated: "My late husband was almost a master of strange gift giving," writes Marylyn Swanson of Takapuna. "Many years ago, when gardening was his hobby, he gave me a compost bin for my birthday. That year, I managed to find him a pair of beautiful leather gloves two sizes too small, but a perfect fit for me. Another year, I was somewhat surprised to receive four new tyres for the car - I was a non-driver! When we moved to Auckland and bought a two-storey house, my gift that year was a new stair banister. By that stage, I had ceased to be offended and found much amusement at his idea of a suitable gift. His Christmas gifts could fill a whole column - we were often helpless with laughter as I unwrapped the 'surprises'."
