2 week Trip to New Zealand

Heh heh heh... now WW has another one to contend with!

The most confusing time, when you're beginning to drive on the unaccustomed side of the road, is when you emerge from a one way street into a two way street.

Don't mention the "fun" word please.

Someone mentioned it awhile back and they seemed to have fallen from this flat earth of ours.

oh no, sorry - touch wood :))

Yup - and when you are trying to merge on the road from a parking lot or driving on unmarked lanes country road. But, I think traffic shouldn't be that bad compared to US, ya?

NZ will be a good place to pick up right hand drive techniques.

Bugga me poor chook!

This website is a very touchy (no, not touch feely), but touchy place.

Any wrong move and you are gotten rid of.

My former partner Daycat was like that, he was on here from 2003 to 2013 (Nov), he goaded the Mod, and got killed off.

Its a very thin, narrow, margin, so as PC_Glow says, be careful.

Our other colleague, whom you have met, is a very tough mananger, and has a soft spot from above, untouchable.

Of the upper most high standard, no sense of humour, don't play with that one.

This place is like an office, with office politics, there are some who click/form a clique together, and others who don't.

You also must get used to the Australian way of doing things, saying things, which is slightly different from the NZ way of doing or saying things.

He bro? Maremare...!!! Ooo, the Line Manager is coming, better get back to work.

You haven't seen any of the NZ tv shows have you?

You will never know what hit you, if I were you, I would not drive, granted, I have never driven, in Australia or NZ, but if I was used to driving the US and some European way, I would not even attempt to drive in NZ.

Motorway Patrol, have a look at that on Youtube.

Don't ever assume.

Check before you jump into the drivers seat of a car, because if you are so used to getting in the left hand side, to drive off, you have another thing coming, ... driving in NZ cars is on the right hand side of the car, but driving is on the left hand side of the road, going up, right coming down.

I don't know if you are piss taking, but IF you have to put a green or any arrow on the steering wheel to learn to have to know, in an NZ car, you better NOT drive in NZ.

If someone has driven for a lot of years and often without any major incidents, its easy to forget the current situation and revert back to what is familiar. Most accidents involving foreign tourists is because they've forgotten to keep left. A small arrow serves as a reminder. Some rental vehicles have them painted on permanently.