Kaiser Chiefs – Never Miss A Beat 3:26

Today was the day from hell.
Usually at BP Levin there are four people rosterd on for the day shift’s, Two people on the Cafe, one making pie’s/ stocking up the freezer-chiller/ and helping the other when needed.
The other stays on the till serving people, making coffees etc.
Then there are two on the green side, one cruises around doing jobs (stock, helping customers, cleaning etc) while the other serves.

Today, there were two of us.

Alan who is usually on, went to a 21st, and swapped shifts with Biannca, who has conjunctivitis, Nadai was called in and initially said she couldn’t get a ride, when we sorted her out a ride she said she’d walk, and never appeared.

Ive survived a shift with Two people before, at Waiwhetu, but I was on with Jess, who was an exceptional worker, and even then Waiwhetu is about half the size of Levin with Less Cafe traffic.

Today I was on with a 15 year old kid who didn’t know what was about to hit him.
Enque, two buses full of Israelite tourists wanting to use our toilet facility’s, eat pies, stand around making noise, get confused due to the language barrier and destroy one 15 year old soul.

Morel of the story? Don’t hire a bunch of teenagers to run your petrol station, they don’t give a shit about their job’s, I should know I was a teenager not too long ago.

-Tama, drinking a steiny pure

Johnny Clegg & Savuka – Cruel, Crazy And Beautiful World 4:23

Mass update, I’ve been too tired of recent to keep ontop of everything blog-wise, for that I apologise.
Sarah and I went to have our second pre-natal scan in Paraparaumu, what a crazy experience, every time I got to these scans it gets more and more real.
First of all we saw the developing brain of our child, then a very detailed face popped up on the screen, I was in total awe.
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Hot Chip -Touch Too Much (Fake Blood Remix) 5:53

driving around Levin exploring when I came across this.
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Justice – Culture Prophet Guide To Planisphere 5:31

Recently I was told by NZP officer DHAV23 that I have been driving disqualified and that I would receive a $400 fine in the mail for this, I was going to dispute this as my licence had not been taken off me, no officer had informed me of a loss of licence and I had received no paperwork as to loosing my licence.

When my infringement notice arrived today details had changed.

1) Vehicle Make is listed as “Honda” although I was in a VW Golf
2) The Street I was on had changed
3) The Offence Number had changed from what the officer had claimed he was doing me on

Several people are telling me to kick up a stink, but Im not a believer in people winning against New Zealand’s biggest mob… any thoughts on the matter?

-Quickly loosing faith in the New Zealand Police Force

The Raconteurs – Level 3:49 (awesome track)

So recently the VW’s exhaust fell off right after I’d done some menial cosmetic upgrades.
The culprit was a (probably 20 year old) broken rubber exhaust band.

These things seem to come in three’s, first of all I was fined by a very bored cop for going 16km over the speed limit on the open road, then the exhaust got damaged, which cost 45 bucks to repair (im happy with the price, and how quick Craig at CR had it sorted) and Then last night I got pinged outside New World Levin, the cop had just targeted me for being in a low car, walked around looking for something to pin on me.

Once he had done that he checked my licence, and ran it through his computer, in came number three, apparently im disqualified due to having too many demerit point’s, great, the officer rambled on about all the things he could have done me for, and told me he was only going to give me $400 fine in the mail.

Of course I contested it on the spot and asked where I could go to sort it out, I hadn’t been told my demerit points had exceeded 100, The last officer who picked on my didn’t take my licence off me or tell me I was disqualified, how the hell can you fine someone for something they don’t know about?
That said I really don’t want to kick up a stink, I just hope he was trying to give me a scare as I didn’t get ticket in hand, you can’t win against the NZPolice’s piggy bank, I mean the highway patrol/ traffic division

Riki has taken the VW into his work today to price up what it’s going to cost to touch up, If im not driving for the next few months I may be able to afford it.

-Tama