Cheers drive

With so much hap­pen­ing in this fair and glo­ri­ous city of ours (it’s not just mine, it is all of ours) there’s a high chance that you’re gonna bump into some “out of town­ers”, espe­cial­ly the next few days as the city fills up with drunk pen­guins, herds of Elvis-es and not an unwel­come amount of near­ly naked peo­ple … the rug­by Sev­ens are on!

Whilst we all know that near­ly every­thing is with­in walk­ing dis­tance of the Sta­di­um (“It’s a very walk­a­ble city” was prob­a­bly only just pipped by “Absolute­ly Pos­i­tive­ly Welling­ton”) we at the Tow­ers are sure that there will be a high pro­por­tion of these tourists catch­ing bus­es from ‘here’ to ‘there’.

And once on the bus they will be pleas­ant­ly sur­prised by how, as Welling­to­ni­ans leave the bus, there is a hearty, “Cheers dri­ve!”

Well, actu­al­ly it’s like­ly to be a, “Thank you” or even a, “Thanks dri­ver” but why should­n’t it be, “Cheers dri­ve”?

This small moment of cour­tesy is some­thing that we polite Welling­to­ni­ans take for grant­ed and it’s only hear­ing the com­ments from “oth­ers” that we can realise that we are, in fact, pleas­ant­ly dif­fer­ent. It does­n’t hap­pen in Auck­land, Christchurch or Tai­hape and it cer­tain­ly does­n’t occur in Lon­don, Syd­ney or Suva … although we have it on good terms it is com­mon in the Eng­lish city of Bris­tol (“Cheers dri­ve”).

And so, how­ev­er you say it, say it proud and def­i­nite­ly say it loud as it can be hard for the dri­ver to hear above the singing!

Enjoy the Sev­ens par­ty every­one, whether you’re going or not!