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It is important for individuals to have their yin and their yang in balance. And this week, my yin and yang couldn't have been more harmonious.
On one hand, the magnificent masculine feast of sport; on the other, the magical, oestrogen-charged nonsense that is Fashion Week.
Waking last
Sunday with the memory of a wonderful Bledisloe and Tri-Nations-winning test match still fresh in my mind, I was further delighted with a gutsy and historic Warriors win over the Storm.
The Warriors were just two games away from the grand final - life surely couldn't get any better.
But it did. For on a beautiful sunny Tuesday, Fashion Week got under way with a jaw-dropping and benchmark-setting show from World.
The Westpac Tent was filled to capacity and we all emerged entranced and amazed by the colour, the tailoring and the design.
Off up to the Air New Zealand lounge overlooking the Viaduct for a restorative glass of champagne and the next two days followed a similar pattern. Beautiful clothes, sunny days and sparkling champagne.
Of course while sport and fashion can bring out the best in people it can also bring out the worst. As well as being brave, creative and resolute, humans can also be venal, self-obsessed and just plain mean.
The hissy fits thrown when self-important twats found themselves a row or two back from the front row of shows would have been sad if it hadn't been so funny for other spectators.
And the scalping of Warriors tickets was also pretty ugly. I know there are two schools of thought on this - some people say they're happy to sell and others are willing to pay, so where's the problem?
I can't answer that rationally other than to say it seems so mean-spirited.
If you've bought tickets then on-sold them for a huge profit, what have you added to the process?
Your intellect or talent or hard work hasn't earned you the right to charge any more for the tickets than what you paid for them - it's just scamming.
A buy-now price on Trade Me would have stopped the nonsensical bidding wars in which tickets for the Warriors reached upwards of $1500. It's not just the Warriors either.
Demand for Auckland Marathon entries has far exceeded available places and one evil jogger tried to offload their entry for $400. The person admitted they were just trying it on. I hope they pull a hammy.
However, just when I was despairing of my fellow humans, I read out an email on my show on Wednesday night from Gloria. Gloria is a superannuitant and a huge fan of the Warriors.
She doesn't have a season pass because it's a bit much to fork out all at once but with careful budgeting she manages to get along to every second home game.
She tried desperately to get a ticket for Friday's match but despite camping on the computer and the phone and queuing for hours, she missed out.
Her email was just a chance to let off steam, rather than a cry for help, but seconds after I'd read it out, we had two phone calls from men willing to give her a ticket and one offer of a ride to the stadium.
One of the men had been caught out by the Ticketek online glitch, another had been asked to get one by a mate, but the mate had found his own. Gloria accepted Mikey's offer; he arranged for a workmate to bring the ticket out to near where Gloria lived and he refused to accept any money for it.
So Gloria got to go to the game - and my word, what a game it was! Mikey got a bit closer to heaven and I had my faith in humanity restored.
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