Good day gone bad

Kadizzle was extremely careful with the rental car because of driving on the left.  Now the rental car company is trying to soak Kadizzle for a scratch on the bumper.  Kadizzle suspects someone may have scratched it while he was parked at the beach yesterday.  Like an idiot Kadizzle turned the car in very early in the dark and never looked it over.  The deal is going to be a major paperwork hassle.

OK, now for the good news.  Today's bnb seems pretty nice.  The lady would not let Kadizzle occupy until three so he had to waste a day doing something.  Took the train to downtown.  Kadizzle had written Auckland off as kind of a so, so city, but it was a lot of fun today walking up and down the shopping area.  The streets were bustling with people and the retailing in New Zealand seems explosive.  There are so many shops and they all actually have people shopping.  The selection of stores is amazing.  One striking scene was the people standing in line to get ripped off.  That was at the very high end stores where you had to wait on the sidewalk until it was your turn to shop.  Who would wait to pay five thousand for a watch or a purse?

Kadizzle patiently waited for some street musicians to start.  Will try to post the video. They were really good, had a unique sound including an electronic didgeridoo.  They immediately drew a big crowd.  Some guy who said he was an old bricklayer chatted up Kadizzle.  The guy did not look to bummy, but he intended to ask for spare change with a cardboard sign.  He was such a nice guy Kadizzle gave him a little pocket change.  The guy said he liked Trump so kadizzle had to lecture him.  He agree Trump was a loser, but insisted he had to get some respect for his position.  Kadizzle told the coin collector he would give him twenty dollars if he would walk around with an impeach Trump sign.  The guy really wanted money and said he would do it.  Kadizzle went into the high end store where the street musicians were performing out front. The well dressed young lady at the door said " Can I help you with anything?",   Kadizzle asked for a piece of cardboard to make the impeach Trump sign.  The lady took off in search of the cardboard, but could find none.  That was probably some karma telling Kadizzle to give that idea up.  So sitting with the bum on a nice bench we just enjoyed the music.

Prior to all this Kadizzle sat on another bench to rest.  A young woman was speaking at machine gun speed into her phone in a language Kadizzle could not understand nor guess.  Kadizzle heard a couple of words that sounded a little spanish.  It turned out Kadizzles guess was right.  The woman was from Argentina and we had a good cackle.  Kadizzle said he wanted to visit Argentina. She said it was not a good time to do it you might get killed.  Anyway had a great time wandering the streets.  May also post here a picture of a woman that started dancing in front of the musicians then tossed some money in their pot.