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For truck's sake, get out!

"Check this big trucker out," writes Alan from Tokoroa. "I'll just cruise into Countdown Rotorua this afternoon loaded, lock 'em up and go shopping for a wee while.

Hmmm. Some PR at its best

If it sounds like PR is probably is PR. “Not sure about the validity of some of these consumer comments on the side of this box of baby rusks!” writes Susan Miller.

Major breakdown *snigger*

"Major vehicle breakdown at Pak'n Save, Pukekohe, last week," sniggers Karl.

Amusing love letter

A mother writes: "After a long gruesome day at work and to arrive home to this note from my 8-year-old daughter Gloria, was pretty amusing."

Are ewe a softy?

If you find this Wairarapa ad for Wairere Rams rather unsettling you are probably just a soft townie. Yeah right.

Get ready to have a blast kids

A prankster has caused a stir in London supermarkets after swapping wine label descriptions with his own hilarious versions.

Kids leave the darndest notes

Kids leave the darndest notes. Yvonne writes: "We recently awoke to find this message outside our daughter's bedroom.

Telling it like it is

Telling it like it is at the Mangere Bridge shops.

Mortified building

Sideswipe: Bin a big problem

There is an ongoing problem in the Waitakere foothills with the bins for noxious weeds set up for free public use, says John.

Who's a creepy dolly then?

This note just adds to the creepiness of porcelain dolls. Spotted at the Vincent De Paul shop in Pt Chevalier.

Taking lockdown seriously

Er - explain that again?

One of my Israeli women friends told me that, when she was pregnant riding a subway in New York, she asked (in English) to squeeze on a bench seat next to two women.

Spread the word

Mug up on etiquette

If the axe fits...buy it?

Parking for mothers

An elderly driver in Germany damaged 11 cars while trying to leave a multi-storey carpark, it's been reported.

How low can you go?

"My daughter's wheelchair was stolen from Sylvia Park shopping centre during the school holidays. It's like the one in the picture, except the frame is deep blue. It was left under the escalator going up to Hoyts cinemas.