Matthew Ridge

So we were at a couple of girls' places and me and my best mate at the time, Robbie, we were at Auckland Grammar at this stage.

playing first 15 rugby and I rang my mum, said, mum, can you come pick me up?

And she's like, no, I can't, you know, which is fair enough, you know, like...

But in saying that, Mum, like if my son or my daughter rang me up now and said, hey, Dad, I need you to come pick me up, I'd be like, yeah, cool, I'll be there.

But that's just how it was in those days, you know, like that's how it was.

But like now, like all you want your kids to do is ring you and let you know they're A, they're stuck, or B, they're in the shit.

That's all you want, right?

If you can get your kids to that stage, you're doing pretty good.

So my mum got to that stage, she was doing pretty good.

She just forgot to get in there.

Anyway, so Rob said to me, he said, oh, look, I've run from a cab before, like, and it's real easy.

We just, we get out of, I can't remember, there was some Rimura somewhere.

We just get out there and we just run across the bridge and down the back of the house and then we're back up to our place.

I was like, oh, fuck.

I said, oh, okay.

All right, sweet.

So we rang a cab and we got the pick up.

So we rang a cab from this girl's place that we were at, right?

And we got the pick up from next door, right?

So think about that for starters.