This & That: Green, green, greens of home

A Rotorua engineer and Rotarian is well known amongst friends and colleagues as having a dislike for broccoli. When out with friends and it is served, he ostentatiously puts it aside or shares it with others, often giving his hostess a discourse on its colour, its lack of taste, and its complete lack of any nutritional benefit. Recently he has been in Portugal, Spain and France, and while away, good friends noticed his lack of a winter vege garden. After weeding they thoughtfully planted fertilised and snail-baited, so that he would come home to home grown veges. He is now the proud owner of 30 plus, healthy broccoli plants. A former Rotorua woman has been thinking of funny excuses tell people different stories as to why she is wearing a compression stocking. The stocking, which looks like she had a prosthetic leg, has been getting a bit of attention. So far the excuses she has given are: 1. My leg got shot off in Nam, 2. Shark attack at Seaworld and 3. I was laughing really hard and it fell off. She said it had been pretty funny watching people's faces.
A Rotorua woman had an awkward moment she felt she had to share on Facebook this week. She wrote: "That awkward moment when [som,eone] hustles you for $2 for the bus and you say you don't have change on you and then he replies 'All good, ill come to the cafeteria with you and you can just get some cash'," needless to say she was not impressed.

Nervous about starting a new job and keen to make a good first impression? It can't go any more wrong than one part-time teacher's first day, as shared on thatsembarrassing.com. She was running late and the kids were already in class when she walked in, hands full of books. As she opened the door the crosswind from the open classroom windows pushed her over and sent her dress flying. When she heard whistles coming from the class she realised she was exposed from the waist down, the wind having loosened her dress from the belt at the waist. Worse, as she pulled her dress back round she realised that in her rush to get to school, she'd forgotten to put on any underwear.
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