I see Matt Todd most mornings on the school run.

Chris Harris gratuitously took the piss out of me for about 90 straight minutes at a poker game once after I went large on the first hand.

Ben Blair scored the chick I took to my 7th form ball (that night), she's now married to another former All Black whose name would dox her and she's a lovely girl and doesn't deserve that.

My brother-in-law was the one who told Mark Hammett to quit soccer and take up rugby in 4th form.

Daryl Gibson was my peer support leader in 3rd form, on peer support day in the first week, him and Andrew Mehrtens took their big bunch of turds down to the river to eat Raro out of our hands and try to scone ducks with acorns. In 7th form, when we did the same, little did I know that a young Dan Carter was in the group, so I'm the direct link there.

I hung out and drove round with Shane Bond for a few days at Queenstown Winter Festival when he was still the fastest bowler in the world with a legal action.

Have dealt with cricket and rugby teams quite a few times working in hotels, there was the time Shoaib Aktar "wasn't right in the head" (- Pakistan team doctor) and used a vivid to sign his name hundreds of times on the wallpaper of his hotel room.

Helped Pedro de la Rosa get a rental car to go to Kaikoura, he wrote that Suzuki Ignis off in the Hundalees.

There'll be more...

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