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

*The traffic is much less here, and even more shady characters abound. Several of the mirror-like buildings are open, and a possiblity...
The setting is a wide, concrete road, illuminated by a few flickering street-lamps. A few wanderers skulk in dark allies, and the occasional MJ12 commando marches by. Benches adorn the inside railing of a bridge, which in turn overlooks the crystal clear river which is used for cooling the massive reactors, a mile away. It, in turn, flows into the resevoir.*

*One of HDS's many personas walks down the street, dressed in black mail man shoes, black pants, a black leather belt, a maroon shirt, and a wearing a tweed blazer with leather patches on the arms. He has a coffee straw sticking out of his mouth and a news paper under his left arm. HDS sits down on one of the benches, pulls out the paper and starts reading, crossing his right leg over his left knee as he does. Every now and then there is a "humph" or a "fah" uttered. HDS really dislikes what most of the people who write editorials have to say.*