Credit where credit's due
Moyle Sarty of Te Atatu Peninsula writes: "After a protracted dispute over an incorrect final invoice, a nice lady at Telecom actually listened to my story and issued a credit. Sadly the amount she entered was 5c less than the invoice. I then received a mailed account for $0.05. Rather than waste more time waiting on the phone to sort that out, I went online and paid the 5 cents, and today received in the mail a further account showing the 0 balance. That is $1.40 postage. Clever, eh?"
Forty Hour Famine loophole
Sue reckons eating Raro powdered sugar came about after finding a loophole in the rules to the Forty Hour Famine. "In 1980 we were desperate for something to eat and some of us hit upon the idea that eating the Raro powder out of the packet wasn't really eating but just drinking without the water. (We were allowed to drink as much water and cordial as we wanted and a barley sugar every four hours). So eating Raro has been around for a long time, at least 32 years!"
When bendy was trendy
The vintage of the old blue bendy buses: According to Paul bendy buses were trialled in the late 1970s and properly entered service in 1980. "The original trial bus was parked outside our house regularly in late 1978. John Brown (head of the ARA transport arm) lived up a side street near us and I can remember riding on the trial bus with some school friends."
