Recently, in sunny California Steve 'Woz' Wozniak and comedian Steve-O rode their Segway PTs to their local Apple Store to buy a new MacBook. When Woz asked to use his discount for the purchase, the employee - failing to recognise he was talking to the actual inventor of the personal computer - asked him if he had an Apple employee number. Woz replied "Uh-huh I have an Apple employee number, it’s one."

As reported at Laughing Stock, the entire story ran as follows. But be sure to check out the original story so you can watch the 4 minute video interview with Woz and with Steve-O.

Steve-O met up with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in Los Gatos, California to ride their Segways to the Los Gatos Apple store, as they had done in the past.

It’s amazing to be friends with the man who invented the Apple computer, and going to the Apple Store with him happens to be hilarious!

During a comedy routine, Steve-O shared how he met Woz on Dancing With the Stars and hit it off immediately. When Steve-O told Woz that he wanted to get a MacBook Air because his back was hurting, Woz offered his employee discount, proudly noting that he was the first employee of the company.

We rode Segways together. So we walked into the store, I picked out my computer, the Woz calls over a sales dude. He says here’s my friend he’s gonna get this computer with my discount. Dude looks at him and says are you an Apple employee? And the Woz goes, uh-huh I have an Apple employee number, it’s one.

Woz is well-known to Kiwi enthusiasts of Segway PTs, Apple products and technology in general. Woz has been visiting New Zealand since the late-70's, when he would be invited out to promote Apple computers right through into the 1990s. He's been here many times since as the keynote speaker at a range of events.

Late in 2005 we invited Woz to New Zealand to play the world's first international match of Segway Polo here in Auckland, founding the first new international sport of the 21st century. It was soon being quoted as the prime example of business networking via high tech sports in publications like Fast Company and The Economist. In addition to game open to the public played in the crater of a volcano, the inaugural Woz Cup match was played during the lunch break at the annual NZ Polo Championship in front of thousands of Auckland's most glamorous and influential.

Since that epic match, Segway NZ's Philip Bendall has met Woz many times - both on and off the polo pitch - in NZ and in USA. They've gone caving to abseil the Lost World in Waikato, enjoyed fish & chips on the Auckland waterfront, taken a Segway Tour to the top of Mt Victoria at Devonport, and hooned around San Francisco in Woz's Hummer decked out with storm-chasing radar equipment.

"Woz was also kind enough to sign my copy of his autobiograph" - Philip Bendall.