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 smallboxes 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."
Fraser, however, agrees with Mary: "Every time I see a woman in the men's underwear section of a store I know they are just visually undressing me and ogling my man parts. I think Mary and I should find a way to travel back to the 1920s where the world was more dignified ..."
"A couple of years ago my wife and I were in the women's department of Sears [like Farmers] in the US," writes Matt. "She was trying on clothes and I was waiting about 10m away on a seat which looked perfect for bored husbands. After a minute a shop assistant came over and asked me to leave the area. I said my wife was trying clothes on and she would like me nearby to get my opinion. No dice, I had to move. My parting words were yelled to my wife 'Don't buy anything, they think I'm a pervert. I'll be out in the carpark!"'
Home for hotrod
A few weeks ago you displayed a photo of a wooden V8 that I had made. One woman was after the hotrod model for her son for Christmas, but the contact number she gave me is wrong ... Would hate it if the little chap's Santa sack ended up being empty this year. Contact Steve at xmas@dizzydesign.co.nz if this is you.
