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Started by Geoff_N, January 15, 2008, 03:32:28 AM

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Geoff_N

This is my blog yesterday but I know y'all have no time to read blogs,
so I repro it here. It really did happen yesterday.

"I cheated today and caught the bus home from the city. I'd walked in
but wetstuff cascaded from the stratocumulus and so I joined a queue
at stand E. This is the stand from which brave bus drivers steer their
reinforced steel vehicles through a large housing estate with,
let's say, an interesting mix of people. I stood in the queue and a
little white-haired elderly woman stood next to me and then pulled at
my elbow. "Does the Lache bus stop 'ere?"

"Yes, I believe it does," I said wondering if she was a great great
(to the power of three) grandmother of a pupil I'd taught at the
school down the road.

"Only I can't see the E."

"I'll let you know when the Lache Bus comes along," I say hoping she
was hearing better than me. Her hearing aids were several generations
earlier than mine.

"Ta, love. Only I've had to wait for ages lately. They should be every
ten minutes."

Stupid pedantic editorial me then said: "Eleven minutes not ten. It's
that extra minute that's been fooling you." I grinned at her, but of
course she'd not understand.

"Do you mean like in that space-time continuum? Has the Lache moved to
the event horizon and so time is attenuated?" She tapped her nose and
winked at me.

My mouth dropped. Was this a Time Lord in disguise? A Time Mistress?

Never assume..."

Surreal feeling. I sat behind the little woman on the bus, her snowy
hair taunting me. Perhaps she is made to watch Dr Who with her little
great gr gr gr kids? A lot of Polish and Croatian immigrants have
moved into that estate recently, so maybe she is Stanislaw Lem's mum?
It served me right for thinking little old ladies had only scrambled
thoughts of pensions, wrinkled stockings and Mills & Boon in their
heads.


Geoff, the bewildered



Ed

 :grin: That's brilliant, Geoff - love it :grin:
Planning is an unnatural process - it is much more fun to do something.  The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression. [Sir John Harvey-Jones]

LesFloyd

Haha!  :cheesy:

She's probably read a few of your stories and that was her early introduction before an application to be one of your groupies. (Mills & Boon books are filthy...)
"Even if it were possible to travel at the speed of light, it would not be desirable, as one's hat would keep flying off!" - H.G. Bells

delph_ambi

Brilliant anecdote, Geoff  :yes:

SamLeeFreak

*giggles* That is fantastic  :grin:

wildhawk

Wowsa. Love that story, geoff. and to think it is real. maybe is possible you've met a relative of trudy's from

http://www.amazon.com/Search-Signs-Intelligent-Life-Universe/dp/0060914319/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200426731&sr=1-1

if you've not read this, is rolling over funny & wise.

aexombie

Lol, she was onto you.
And I'm a blogger, tyvm.
I'll add you to my blog list, if that's all right.

Geoff_N

Hello there, aexombie, I'm honoured you'd add my blog to your list - that's not your list of people you want to send big aussi surfers around to bend my bones I hope! Hah. I'll reciprocate and add your blog to mine once I've worked out how to do it.

Hey wildhawk, no I hadn't come across that trudy character in Signs of Intelligent Life - not watched it though perhaps I should. Thanks for the heads up. It means I won't rush into writing up my real experience into a story and making another idiot of myself!

Geoff

wildhawk

Geoff - I think there's always room for another char like that. and the old woman at the bus stop sounds unique unto herself. i think would write up as a terrific story. had me laughing

hawk