Reply #14: My favorite Kiwi story [View All]

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I rented a beach house with a bunch of other girls, and one had a friend visiting who was a South African "yachtie" -- folks who travel the world crewing on yachts. The yachtie didn't want to go out with us to the bars because she was afraid of missing her boyfriend, a New Zealand yachtie who was due to arrive that evening at an unspecified time.

I said "don't worry about him - leave him a note telling him that we'll be at Fred's Tavern. Put in the note that they should ask bouncer to go get Pattie - I used to go out with him, and he'll know to come get me when they arrive"

So off to the bar we went.

Several hours later, an extremely proper, upright, preppie girl from our school approached me, and with a look of horror on her face she said "Uh, Pattie? There are a bunch of horrendously drunk guys out front wearing rainbow-colored fright wigs, and yelling 'The Kiwis are here!' and, um, they're asking for YOU." She was clearly appalled.

We made our way out front, and there were indeed several roaring-drunk, fright-wig-clad Kiwis out front yelling for me.

So the note was a good idea in that they found us easily. And a bad idea because I don't think it helped my reputation any back at school. The whole thing left me with a VERY strange impression of New Zealanders...