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

This afternoon I was standing in line at the pharmacy in the local supermarket, (not) minding my own business. The woman in front of me had a large sack of prescription bottles from the Rexall across the street and she wanted to buy some behind-the-counter pain-killers.

'I only have 100's left. They're about six bucks.' the pharmacist said.

'Oh. I've only got five eighty left' the woman said.

Feeling a little wild, I said 'I'm sure I've got twenty cents' and gave the woman two dimes with a smile. She was profuse with thanks.

'Actually,' said the pharmacist, 'you're still four cents short.'

'I'm sure I've got four pennies,' I said, still grinning (please remember that I pretty much look like a rather large and hairy street person just now)

The woman was again very thankful and said, gesturing to the Rexall sack of pharmaceuticals 'I just paid a couple of hundred dollars at Rexall for these.'

To which I replied, without missing a beat, 'I'm sure you can get a lot more than that for it on the street.'

The woman laughed, a little uncomfortably.

The pharmacist laughed. She knows me.

The dairy case is just next to the pharmacy. A mildly diminutive woman had lifted a ladle from the reduced to clear shelf next to the washroom to try to reach a carton of EggBeaters on the top shelf.

'need some help?' I asked.

Profuse thanks and brief conversation.

Turn to my left.

'Oh, could you? . . .' the elderly lady asks, pointing to the half litres of buttermilk on another high shelf.

Happily, I got it down for her.

Of I went with a smile on my face.




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could have been worse!!!!

could be a tom hanks film???

run forrest run

No, really. It's all very positive!

I went into my purveyor of haggis this afternoon and he said, 'We've got to set up a barter arrangement! Haggis for bread!' He apparently enjoyed the loaf of home baked bread I gave him for Christmas.


I left today with a freshly made haggis for nothing more than a promise of a loaf of bread next week.


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So. When does Zooey Deschanel show up on her scooter?

I've lost a whole lot of respect from Jim Carrey ever since he's come out as an anti-vaccination campaigner.

Still you seem to be doing all right

Yeah, he's an idiot.



But Zooey has a nice helmet.

who's zooey??????

You know I didn't fall in until recently that her and the one who play Temperance Brennan in Bones are sisters.

I know , I know - the name - I'm just ultra slow on the uptake on somethings.

'who is Zooey'?

What is this site?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to what exactly?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/

and, more to the point of this thread:

http://www.thevine.com.au/resources/imgdetail/070409040019_zooey-deschanel-455.jpg

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge_4vl0yA_M

The band is called Munchausen By Proxy?

I really shouldn't, but on some level I do find that intensely amusing.

Yes, that is their name.