There are some matters only other Kiwis can relate to.
The shop assistant at
Auckland Airport Adidas duty free is American.
Her: "Any particular style?"
Me: "I'm looking for a straight replacement for a pair I had stolen last weekend."
Her: "It's terrible that someone stole them!"
Me: "Not someone, something. It was a
Weka."
Her: ".."
Me: <pause> "Now that I'm actually verbalising this I realise how unbelievable and ridiculous it sounds. Last weekend a flightless native bird, which is similar to a
Kiwi but with a more mischievous temperament,
stole my sunglasses off a deck and ran away into the bush with them."
Her: "Sounds scary."
-SRA. Auckland, 1/ix 2014 (reposted.)
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