MY bit of Kiwi history that many have experienced in the past… growin’ up in Northland we were fearless sports peoples hahaaaa… we would often have billets (other schools coming to stay from afar to play sport) and stay with us unruly lot in our homes … god they must’ve had pretty sweet parents because we were pretty rugged and ‘hickey’! Anyway I was an OK netball player and ended up havin’ an Auckland city girl staying with us, yep we actually billeted someone…. yearh!
Pretty exciting coz I could drive and everything, so wanted to show this Taheke virgin our remote beauty!! At the time I was driving ‘THE BRICK’ (blue mini van-could squeeze a couple of big fullas in the back you know!). More than one person in the car and we were grading our metal road… the big rocks hitting up underneath the car, trying not to straddle the road too much or we might take out the mufflar!!
Anyway, on our way.. and the loop road is real, real rough as guts!!! Boulders for surface metal on a road?! HO! I remember my new mate from Auckland lettin’ out an almighty “aaaaarrrgh!”, my reflexes were pretty much shot due to the vibration of the metal road for the last 1/2 hour…. then……KADOONK! the mini leaped up in the air like Thelma and Louise… except it wasn’t as glamorous coz we ended up hitting this poor humungous possum… all that furry rodent saw was two moons mate!!! I couldnt believe this chicks reaction at the time, because we all used to swerve to get the buggas eating our forests and bird eggs blah blah…. But lookin back on it now, yeah I totally see where she was coming from!
She wasnt the same around me after that moment. Might have been due to me in hysterics after the car leaped up and bounced over the cute pest!! Y’know how you get that insane laugh and cant stop! Thinking of stopping just makes you laugh harder!!! Man her team lost the next day and you are never too young to recognize those little glances that a group makes when they are dissing you hahaha!
Anyway, this is a moment that I will remember for ever… ‘The Billets’, City Slickers vs Hicksville and if you were wondering my tactic of catapulting over a defenseless animal won us the game!! haha nah only joking….
Just another Day in The Life of Me
See ya next week!