Thread: She,s a real hotty.

Originally Posted by 300CALMAN

At least in Melbourne it would get to 40+ but it was dry and the sweat dried off.

Yeah lots of things that were taken for granted but you don't see here, or are quite rare.
Aunger rear louvers on cars. (They're reasonable effective, not just bling.)
Front windscreen covers (Aunger or the like), plus beach towel over the dash and steering wheel. Learnt that one pretty quickly when knocking off at 3 in the arvo and I couldn't hold the steering wheel. Once I'd managed to lower my arse onto the seat that is.
Local shopping centre had one lonely tree in the middle of the car park. You get there early to hopefully get a park under it.
Top of back seat of my 4 year old Holden totally buggered by the sun. Previous owner never protected obviously. The local upholstery shop did a roaring trade in replacing back seat tops. In part also due to piss poor Holden fabric quality.
First hot weather we did the Kiwi thing, opened all windows and doors (all had fly screens). Wrong wrong. Soon learnt to ensure all windows shut and drapes in place from early in the morning. With doors we used rolled up towels stuffed along the gap at bottom.

Our house, (like my car), didn't have aircon but was built in the Aussie standard of bricks and high pitch tile roof.
All rooms had vents high up the walls jus gelow the ceiling. First sighting of a Huntsman spider was when it emerged out of the lounge room grill. My wife freaked out despite them being harmless. Caught it on the end of a broom. It legs encircled both sides of the broom.

I won't start on snake stories and the number I killed and the stupidy I displayed whilst killing them.
Plenty of other Kiwis ex Oz or currently living there will have good stories I'm sure.