h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It seems quite mean actually...

Ouch! *starts rubbing his upper arm*

*looks concerned*
Are you alright EV?
Any idea why he randomly appeared and did that?

That wasn't very nice at all.

Seems completely unwarranted to me...do you think he'll be back?

*inexplicably determined to carry on a conversation with Menza even if each message has a page or two of unrelated conversation before the next*

I'm in Cambridge, to the north - about 30 seconds from the Golden Hind - do you know it?

Interesting how poor EV's just been assaulted by a mean bloke and you still manage to draw the conversation back to a pub

*starts humming again in order to restrain from diverting the subject until Menza answers*

Sorry, I live south of Cambridge. I also don't have my own transport so I don't have a chance to get around that much.

Oh no! What happened to etiquette? There's supposed to be more messages than that between these messages!

*wonders if that was meant to be rhetorical or whether Ian expects Menza to reply, decides to be on the safe side and goes back to humming*
hmmmmmhmmmmMMMMMmmmm

Me and etiquette have never really got on.

If that's your answer does that mean I can stop humming and bring the conversation back on to something sensible...like moths and why there are so many millions of them and then you finally get them outside and before you have chance to shut the window they've all fluttered back in again?

And why does the window slam shut on you fingers while you are trying to throw them out.

Also why is it that when you're in a hurry you always manage to get something like a bag strap or a sleeve caught round a door handle seemingly with the sole purpose of annoying you further and making you miss the bus/appointment/thing?

Not to mention pulling your shoulder out of joint.

Which just adds to the stress...especially when you actually miss the bus which has come five minutes early despite the fact that for the rest of it's life it chugs along at such a slow speed that you're lucky if it arrives on the same day

I don't generally get straps caught on things, not owning much with straps... However the jamb pin (metal peg on a car door pillar that goes into the door latch mechanism to hold it shut) on my car is positioned such that when getting out with the roof on, it's very easy to tear one's trousers...

*supresses a giggle and restrains herself from pointing out that that's the price you pay for having such a cool car*
You could wear a skirt and then you wouldn't have that problem...it's very fashionable it was in Hello this week

And not at all liable to get you laughed at by your mates.

No it's very attractive, they'd all want a skirt too...it said so in Hello what more proof do you need