‘Why I love my jandals’
Ilove my pair of jandals. They are an iconic New Zealand summer item but I wear them all year round. It’s great when summer comes along because it means that I don’t get any strange looks whenever people look at my feet. I’m not self conscious about my feet, either. It’s one part of my body that I don’t have any concerns about.
My jandals are very practical because I wear them as soon as I get out of bed and still have them on when I’m heading into work.
I always have four pairs of jandals at one time. When I see a good pair at a shop, I’m like a jandal connoisseur and I’ll snap them up.
I know lots of Kiwis who wear socks with their jandals but it’s something that I will never do. Not because I think it’s a fashion crime but because I don’t want to see people’s dirty socks.
I wear my jandals in the shower because it helps to keep them clean.
I learned that when I started wearing jandals in the public showers at the camp grounds.
You do it there for practical reasons, so you don’t pick up any horrible diseases from other people, but I realised it also keeps your jandals clean.
I’m lucky to play a role in Shortland Street where I can wear my jandals as part of the costume. I play Drew Mccaskill who is the head of the plastic surgery department at Shortland Street. I wouldn’t get plastic surgery because I don’t see any flaws in myself and I’m happy with the way God made me.
This year, I had a great scene in my jandals, which should belong in the annals of television. My character was on home detention for a year because he got in trouble with the IRD. Wearing an ankle bracket, he’s told to wrap tin foil around the bracelet to kill the signal.