So in "What's Happening in Small City New Zealand"...

So in "What's Happening in Small City New Zealand" today, a guy in a BMW honked a person in a wheelchair getting into a car, outside a hospital. And a nearby construction worker calmly walked over and tipped his lunch of biryani and butter chicken all over the BMWs windscreen. And people clapped.

And the reason I know it was biryani and butter chicken, is because he then--in the chillest way possible--told the BMW driver that they owed him for another lot of biryani and butter chicken because he'd missed his breakfast and needed to keep up his energy.🤣

(Today just keeps giving. Have I said how much I love this place lately? I really love this place.)

Like 21 February at 3:37 | Open on sunny.garden

42 comments

IceNine

@georgepenney i7

100% correct approach.

Same should happen to people using disability parking without a permit. And yes, not everyone with one of those is wheelchair bound.

21 February at 3:53 | Open on social.vivaldi.net

The Doctor

@IceNine @georgepenney One of my ex-cow-orkers comes immediately to mind.

21 February at 5:17 | Open on hackers.town

The Original Stripey Goodness

@drwho @IceNine @georgepenney as the lunch vigilante or as temu brand lex luthor?

21 February at 13:39 | Open on meow.social

The Doctor

@stripey @IceNine @georgepenney I'm not quite following your meaning there (didn't sleep well, it's early, coffee is still kicking in).

The one who was not in the wrong, and lulz were involved.

21 February at 15:32 | Open on hackers.town

The Original Stripey Goodness

@drwho @IceNine @georgepenney sorry for the confusion!
I was calling the construction person "Lunch Vigilante" and the annoying person in the vehicle "temu brand lex luthor"

21 February at 17:05 | Open on meow.social

The Doctor

@stripey @IceNine @georgepenney The lunch vigilante, I suppose. They don't map perfectly, but it was a glorious thing to watch happen.

21 February at 18:35 | Open on hackers.town

The Original Stripey Goodness

@drwho @IceNine @georgepenney definitely a better sort of person of whom to be reminded. *nod*

21 February at 19:08 | Open on meow.social

The Doctor

@stripey @IceNine @georgepenney Especially when they can demonstrate why they're using a handicapped parking space.

21 February at 19:19 | Open on hackers.town

it's zip!

@IceNine I'd rather people didn't go around writing licences to guess who's legitimately disabled because that's a nuance most people seem to have missed

21 February at 6:26 | Open on wandering.shop

IceNine

@zip

Ah yes, they do assume though eh. Loudly and opinionatedly - and worn it the last couple of times being in town (passenger is the permit holder, not I).

Some days people never cease to amaze me. *sigh*

21 February at 6:42 | Open on social.vivaldi.net

it's zip!

@IceNine I'm a huge fan of being challenged on being able to walk and using a wheelchair, like yes I can walk but not far enough to be useful what the heck do they think the point of a mobility aid is

21 February at 7:34 | Open on wandering.shop

IceNine

@zip

Yeh, wife can only walk short distances. A little while ago we couldn't get a space because a couple had taken a mobility space because they "weren't being used" - they got aggressive when challenged, to put it mildly.

Wish they'd been at the place I know you'll get clamped in under 30 seconds for doing that.

21 February at 8:26 | Open on social.vivaldi.net

it's zip!

@IceNine ugh people are awful

21 February at 10:52 | Open on wandering.shop

IceNine

@zip

They can be indeed - that said, there's also the awesome workers armed with chicken biryani.

21 February at 17:31 | Open on social.vivaldi.net

Aileen M

@zip @IceNine

I never know how far I can walk before my legs give up- I certainly don’t want to waste the steps I get that day on walking through a parking lot.

I use a cane for short distance, scooter for long. And people used to give me shit about using a scooter to pick up my kids because they saw me walking with a cane on a rare trip to a grocery store.

MS varies by person, symptoms vary by day. It would nice of people didn’t assume they know how every disability works.

21 February at 14:23 | Open on mstdn.social

it's zip!

@aintist @IceNine yup. I'm slowly building up range since my last crash -- so I'll do very local errands on foot but need the chair for range.

21 February at 14:27 | Open on wandering.shop

Tryst

@zip @IceNine Me: able to walk, climb stairs, etc., but unable to take a piss without medical intervention and requiring a clean environment to do so.

Certain colleagues: "You should be using the shit-encrusted stalls in the men's bathroom."

21 February at 7:36 | Open on meow.social

IceNine

@tryst

Some people really need to pull their heads in. Or spend a day in soemeone elses shoes eh.

21 February at 9:34 | Open on social.vivaldi.net

Thea / sitharus

@georgepenney I’m sure a lot of people would want to buy that construction worker a biryani and butter chicken! I sure would

21 February at 5:24 | Open on cloudisland.nz

The Original Stripey Goodness

@sitharus @georgepenney the Lunch Vigilante should be famous and never need to buy their own lunch ever again

21 February at 13:41 | Open on meow.social

MightyBigCar

@georgepenney BMW => Biryani My Windshield

21 February at 5:27 | Open on octodon.social

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@georgepenney
No space for Nazis!

21 February at 5:31 | Open on mstdn.ca

Rob Isaac

@georgepenney I need to know which town because I’m already packing to move there.

21 February at 5:40 | Open on cloudisland.nz

Pterry

@rmi @georgepenney I'm not moving there but I also want to know (stayed there for half a year in 2006/2007 and I'm really curious if I know the place)

21 February at 7:47 | Open on fnordon.de

tuban_muzuru

@georgepenney

I'm torn, George. I totally approve of the construction worker's behaviour. I would have clapped, too.

But biryani... good biryani and butter chicken. This is an abuse of excellent food. I have to drive all the way to St Paul to get decent biryani.

21 February at 6:11 | Open on ohai.social

🪷 प्रियंका | Priyanka 🪷

@georgepenney wholesome story. 💯🙏🏼🪷

21 February at 6:18 | Open on me.dm

Sepi Girardi

@georgepenney so is Mr Inbetween a documentary or what?

21 February at 6:36 | Open on planetearth.social

Aral Balkan

@georgepenney Not all heroes wear capes :)

21 February at 6:41 | Open on mastodon.ar.al

Coyoty

@aral @georgepenney Some wear bibs.

21 February at 7:12 | Open on mstdn.social

JW prince of CPH

@georgepenney Always wanted to visit NZ and I want to even more now 😁

21 February at 6:57 | Open on norrebro.space

Guido Kollerie

@georgepenney No surprise it was a BMW driver

21 February at 7:38 | Open on bsd.network

(Undercover) Wires

@georgepenney sounds like an amazing place

21 February at 7:54 | Open on beige.party

Grissallia

@georgepenney Not sure if the transphobic Irish ex-comedy writer has made his way there yet, but biryani and butter chicken seems like an alternative to tomato soup.