KIND GESTURE
On the evening of June 7, I was loading my groceries from the supermarket cart into my car.
Then the cart suddenly ran into the back of the car passing next to my body. When I looked back, a teenage girl was there and said sorry, but she and other girls ran away with a big laugh and I knew they tried to tease a small Asian woman.
My heart sunk but I tried to recover from the feeling and get ready to go home. Then a car approached me and two young ladies asked after me. They made sure of my safety, so I said thank you.
Shortly after, I saw the car the girls got in, and the ladies seemed like talking to them.
It wasn’t a serious incident, and I don’t know if they were patrolling personnel or kind members of the public - whether they were on duty or not, I felt so relieved and full of appreciation by their caring act.
I remember a quote from Jane Goodall: ‘‘You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.’’
Surely, in a few minutes two angels made special impact on me! I think I will try to make a good difference for someone else every single day too. Thank you so much, ladies! Regarding the Waipapa-SH10 intersection: I believe a roundabout is the best solution. The traffic keeps flowing and drivers don’t get impatient and fed up like you do at lights.
But it’s disturbing to think it is still a good year away before work starts. It is a dreadful intersection and I pray no lives will be lost while the Far North District Council and New Zealand Transport Agency dither around. I’m a recent arrival to Kerikeri. Without knowing the ins and outs of the Waipapa intersection on arrival it was obvious to me this is a death trap.
I don’t know the New Zealand Transport Agency criteria such an intersection has to meet to get funding or prioritised, but let’s have the ambulance at the top of the cliff in this instance.
If the local councillor has been working on it since 1989 then this is nothing to be proud of. I’m gob smacked there hasn’t been a