Sideswipe: October 10: Isn't that a goat?

Andy saw this billboard and comments, "Er ... a ram is a male sheep. That's a goat!"

Kindness in traffic chaos

Gemma gratefully writes, "To the driver of the silver Toyota Hilux who let me in on the Southwestern Motorway Manukau junction while the traffic was crawling on Wednesday evening, thank you. I'd just been abused by three cars full of men, which was really intimidating, so I pulled over and broke down crying. A number of people crawled past and watched, but you stopped, asked if I was okay and if you could help, then kindly let me in. You don't know what that meant and how much you helped. Thank you Mr Hilux - thank you for looking out for others."

Yelling will get you nowhere

Alan was appalled to witness a man verbally assault a young lad who he was supposedly teaching to drive. "The learner had stalled at a Te Atatu roundabout. Each unsuccessful effort to move on was harangued and finally met with, 'Get out of my car'. I hope the young man gets help from someone who appreciates the need for patience and understanding and doesn't humiliate him."

Set a date

Michael recently got two text messages from Vodafone on the same day, reminding him that his prepay account would soon expire. "They were quite different, both in wording and in their date formats. One gave the expiry date as 2/11/14, but the other had the American form, 11/2/14. People must often get confused and misled by these alternative forms. It is time that date formats were standardised, especially by companies such as Vodafone which deal with many millions of customers."

Muffin Splits don't make the cut

Roger regularly buys Quality Bakers' Muffin Splits. "Does anyone else find it annoying that these are never split down the middle? The two sections are uneven, about a third and two-thirds. Thus they don't toast evenly. Why can't the producers manage an even cut? Not as serious as Ebola, perhaps, but one of life's irritations."

Jess spotted this "new definition of anger".