RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32314, 4 June 1970, Page 15

RANDOM REMINDER

BRIEF ENCOUNTER

It is very difficult, for all of us who lead very busy lives, to remember ail the details demanded of us. There are troubles remembering about rate payments, and income tax, and the like. The switch to a partial one-way system in the streets of Christchurch poses further problems for the forgetful. Anything long-established, then changed, catches most of us out for a while, at least. Most of us know what it is like to charge

on to a golf course and discover it is ladies’ day (again) or pocket the boss’s pen in a forgetful moment and be required to return it. Life, is full of difficult little moments. Up at Hamner Springs, a Christchurch businessman was in similar trouble. He wanted to ease the tensions of his business trip with half an hour in the lap of the warm pool? but of course, he was in a hurry getting there, and was all too well aware that his schedule would prevent him enjoying for more

than 30 minutes the luxury of the pool. He was guilty of two errors, two items of forgetfulness which will haunt him for the rest of his days. He forgot that one was not allowed to dive into the pool; and he forgot that it had, since his previous visit, become a mixed pool. He was poised in the middle of a splendidly athletic dive, clothed in nothing but the afternoon air, when he was able to discover for himself that it was, indeed, mixed bathing.