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As I was walking down the street today, a man with a camera came up to me and said he was from TV3, and what did I think about Canterbury water?

I said, um, what are the issues?
he said, well, there's been less rain than usual...
I interupted: so I might have to pay?
he said no, no, but you might have opinions on the farmers spraying their fields
I said, oh.
He said, or, you might think we have great water, and should get more from the bores...

At which point I said to him (as nicely as possible): it's obvious that I'm utterly ignorant of all the important facts, so my opinion is pretty worthless. And he smiled, said that it takes wisdom to know how little you know, and walked away.

Very zen, in some strange worholish way. Yet I still had a little residual impulse to say no! come back, stranger with a camera! i wanna be on tv! hi mom!

The problem is it would have ended up being one of those 'interviews' on the news that annoy me because they seem to have come from the terminally underinformed or chronically moronic:

"um... water is good... paying for water is bad. more water would be good. and, people, like, shouldn't waste water... i like water.... HI MOM!"

Posted by phreq at November 19, 2004 04:46 PM | TrackBack