>Ponsonby people are just so friendly
I’m walking down Ponsonby Road, wearing my cool (I think so, anyway) black Hirschhorn Museum T-shirt.
This guy coming the other way smiles and I think “Might be an old school mate or someone who works in a record store”
Quick brain scan – not a flicker.
Keeps smiling, raises his arm from the elbow, palm outwards.
“Heil Hitler” he said.
I thought I might have qualified for the full arm-straight-from-the-shoulder-at-45-degrees with-fingertips-stretched ceremonial version.
I’m a little disappointed at that.
And he didn’t even click his heels either……
You Must Be From Away 
>A girlfriend of mine in Dallas has a little wiener dog that does the sieg-heil-thing, so she trained it to lift the arm when she says “heil Hitler.” Great parlor trick, that.