On a good day my morning run takes me through Karori Cemetery, which at 7.30 in the morning is usually tranquil and deserted. Not so this winter – every time I’ve run through recently I’ve encountered a large group of mostly Maori and Pacific Island men gathered around a bonfire in the old, isolated eastern reaches of the burial grounds. A lot of them are drinking beers, so I don’t think they work there. I always say Hello, but they don’t reply which makes it a bit difficult to stop and chat and ask them why they’re drinking beer around a bonfire in a cemetery at dawn in the dead of winter.
I’m sure there’s a reasonable explanation but I’m lost as to what it might be.
it’s a pretty cold winter. is it close to the townbelt? they could be the homeless who live up in there.
Comment by Che Tibby — July 2, 2009 @ 9:15 am
I know this is incredibly picky but… it hurts.
Cemetery.
Comment by Thomas Beagle — July 2, 2009 @ 9:55 am
Smiths Fans?
“A dreaded sunny day, so I’ll meet you at the cemetary [sic] gates”
Comment by noizy — July 2, 2009 @ 9:59 am
“I always say Hello, but they don’t reply which makes it a bit difficult to stop and chat”
There’s a pretty big gap between you.
You run so you can drink. They drink to forget they used to be runners.
JC
Comment by JC — July 2, 2009 @ 11:41 am
it’s a pretty cold winter. is it close to the townbelt? they could be the homeless who live up in there.
Maybe – it’s a fair way out of the way, surrounded on all sides by white middle class suburbia.
Comment by danylmc — July 2, 2009 @ 2:56 pm
It’s probably the guys who got moved along from the park in Aro Valley after the liquor ban area was expanded. They were always at it by the time I went past around 7-8 in the morning.
Comment by Doug — July 2, 2009 @ 4:12 pm
wow. lunatic spam.
awesome.
Comment by Che Tibby — July 2, 2009 @ 8:03 pm
PD?
Comment by Kerry — July 3, 2009 @ 8:52 pm