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Time for a reality check I think...
Today I go in to make sure the kids are getting ready for school... no, so give them a bit of a rev up... "After eight o'clock. Get a wiggle on!"..."Dad! Today is a public holiday. It's New Zealand day!"... "Eh? Is it?"
Perhaps as a result of working from home I had no idea whatsoever. To be fair to me, unlike July 4th etc for Americans, our national day is perhaps the least significant of our puiblic holidays and has always been mainly about the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
But I swear to God, when the entire Earth's population has been whisked away by aliens, I can bet I'll wander outside a week later and wonder why the newspaper hasn't been delivered. I said... "I SWEAR TO GOD...". "HELLLOOOO....????"
Today I go in to make sure the kids are getting ready for school... no, so give them a bit of a rev up... "After eight o'clock. Get a wiggle on!"..."Dad! Today is a public holiday. It's New Zealand day!"... "Eh? Is it?"
Perhaps as a result of working from home I had no idea whatsoever. To be fair to me, unlike July 4th etc for Americans, our national day is perhaps the least significant of our puiblic holidays and has always been mainly about the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
But I swear to God, when the entire Earth's population has been whisked away by aliens, I can bet I'll wander outside a week later and wonder why the newspaper hasn't been delivered. I said... "I SWEAR TO GOD...". "HELLLOOOO....????"