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!