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

Ok, I went to see the new Harry Potter film last night, The Chamber Of Secrets. Film was fairly good, with some cool features, like a flying Ford Anglia, messages on the wall written with blood and some giant spiders. One thing I was thinking bout was, when the little 1st-grader girl was writing those messages under the control of the "big evil guy", where did she get the blood??? Was it her own? Did the bad guy cut himself? Did she really kill someone? Did the director give her a bottle of fake blood? Disturbing...

Another, even more disturbing thing was not a part of the film, but the whole experience. Little kids with cell-phones. I counted at least 12 times during the film I could hear a cell-phone beeping somewhere. (Plus a couple of times which I think were just the voices in my head...). Why can't they shut those things off for the film??? I shut off mine everytime.

But that's not all about little girls of my town. You see, when I was walking home from the movies, I spotted 2 little girls. Must have been under 12, I thought. Well, first they were standing in front of me about 20 meters away. They were talking to a cell-phone. Ok, fine by me. Heard them ask someone whether or not that someone had been calling prank calls to them during the film. I wasn't really interested in them so I walked past.

Well they apparently finished the call and started running from behind me. They went past me, one from the left, and the other one from the right. They ran for about 30 meters, and once again started a call with a cell-phone. Still fine by me. I passed them again. Maybe I looked them a little too long, I don't know, but they started following me, still talking to the phone. I heard a bit: "...a boy ahead of us, staring...", so I looked back at them. Heard another piece of conversation: "...he heard us...". I wanted to say something to them, but decided to be quiet since I don't know them.

Well I was coming to a four-way crossroads and I needed to cross one of the four roads. The was a bus coming from exactly the opposite road, apparently it was going to use the same road I was about to cross. I looked at it and decided it had enough time to go before me, even if I don't stop and wait. (One's gotta be careful not to hurt those buses by walking at them...)

Well when I started crossing the street, those two girls started running towards me and screaming: "Bus! Bus!". I looked at them like, "so what?". After I and they had crossed the street, they started jumping around me. They said something, but I couldn't register A) what it was they said, and B) whether they said to each other or me. Shortly after that they ran into a pizza place and I walked home.

Weird...

I might as well state now that all of this and propably most of my forth-coming adventures happens in a little town called Virrat in the middle of a little country called Finland.

Isn't there a Monty Python song about Finland? I am privy to surreal incidents of synchronicity, if that's of any comfort.
James

LOL Twin Peaks ain't got nothing on us...

I think there is a Finland-song by MP too. Not sure though, I might have heard it once or twice.