Shoppers can always get a park in Kaitaia's main street. Photo / Supplied
Bad cases of manyana mania
An article at bbc.co.uk about procrastination generated more readers' stories about 'putting things off'.
1. "I'm still getting round to putting the optic-fibre Christmas tree away from last December and it's now nearly September. By June I decided I might as well leave
it because: (a) it's nearly Christmas again anyway; (b) I quite like the effect of the lights; (c) what's wrong with having a Christmas tree throughout the year anyway? (d) I really can't be bothered to fiddle around putting it in and out of the loft every year."
2. "In October 1987 a husband assures his pregnant wife that he will put shelves in a tall kitchen cabinet to make it into a storage cupboard. The shelves are finally put in by our son (the 'bump') when he is 16 years old."
3. "A client sent me a cheque for £6000 ($11,800). I lost it. I always intended to ask them to issue another but never got round to it."
Shot to pieces but back home
A Pennsylvania woman says a 136kg gorilla statue was stolen from her home, used for target practice and then returned. Patricia Rudalavage's beloved lava-rock statue Greystone was returned last week with bullet holes in its head, stomach and extremities but is still standing. Rudalavage tells the Times-Tribune of Scranton two men arrived with the statue in a pickup truck, saying they'd found him near a makeshift shooting range on a mountain.
