I was reading the police story on Dante's blog earlier, and coupled with ASG's many life stories recently it got me wondering (I'm obviously immensely busy in work at the moment
) what other amusing events had happened to people here recently.
I don't really have much to tell myself, my days are spent working and the nights are just normal nights out, few drinks, talk to my mates, nowt happens.
There are two stories which were amusing to those involved but not sure about others:
1) As some you may know I moved up to London a few months back. Around three weeks ago a few of my friends from back home came up to London and we were looking for something to do on the weekend afternoon. I suggested the London Eye seeing as it was something I wanted to do but everyone I know up here has already done it. Everyone else agrees and off we trundle.
Things didn't really start too well. We joined what we thought was the queue only to find other people pushing past us while making snide comments and giving us dirty looks. It turns out that actually this was the front part of the queue, it looked like the end as there was a giant gap to the next part to enable people to still walk down the street. Was quite amusing to see so many other people make exactly the same mistake.
Eventually we get to the front of the queue legitimately, only took about 20 minutes as well so it wasn't too bad. We were standing there talking and I was quite looking forward to this. The people behind us are laughing about how thorough the cleaners are, washing down each carriage quickly after every ride, then sort of went silent after realising that they were actually scanning them for what I can only assume was bombs.
After 30 minutes we finally step into our little cage, we are now on the slow moving, giant ferris wheel. 10 seconds later I freak out. We have barely even moved and I think I am going to throw up. While everyone else moves to the ege to look out I rush back to the seats and cower there like a little girl. I can't even bear to look over my hands, after watching the video my friends kindly made you can see me shaking. To add to the sympathy they were showing me it was also felt it would be amusing to jump up and down and lean against the windows. I was not a happy bunny
It wasn't until about 2 minutes were left I was finally able to stand up and walk around without my legs feeling like they would give out under me.
I don't mind planes, I'm not a huge fan of heights but I can go up to the top of tall buildings and stand on them glass balconies and shit, and then a giant ferris wheel scares the crap out of me heh. To top it all off it was my idea as well.
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2) This happened in a recent trip back home to Wales.
There was my, my brother (Elliot), his girlfriend, and one of our friends Graham who goes to a nearby uni but would need to crash over mine that night. ASG had been out earlier but was so drunk he had to leave by 9pm. The scene is our hometown of Aberdare. This story may seem a bit weird as to be honest I have just pasted most of it from telling my mates from back who wanted to know what had happened.
We left the Tavern (a local pub) at 2am, me and Graham start to walk home while Elliot gets some food. So we are just by the turning off the main road to my house when my brother phones and says he is in a car on the way home, I need to let him in (I had the only keys), so I run up to the house to wait for him.
5 minutes later there is no sign of Graham...
I go back down my street and as I get to the bottom I see him walking back down the main road and then clambering into the wodds/forest thing by my house. I call after him and no answer. So I run down now and follow him in.
Splash... I stepped in a bloody river. I then hear a loan cry
"Adam..."
No response to me calling him so I wander into the forest. What do I see? Graham lying on the floor, fast asleep, underneath a tree!
I drag him up and then once he is standing he decides he has to hug me. He charges at me and prompty knocks us both over so I'm lying on my back, in a forest, when it has been pissing down all day. My coat is filthy.
We then start walking through the trees towards my street (not the main road, but the road you turn onto, the one you turn right onto my street from).
I step in another river.
Graham isn't following me.
I am not amused :P
At least he is standing up and awake this time though so I ask him what the hell he is doing.
"I've lost a shoe"
He wouldn't leave without it. So at nearly 3am, in a dark forest, we try to find a black shoe amongst all the undergrowth by MOBILE PHONE LIGHT. Unsurprisingly 30 minutes later I give in and tell him we should go back to mine and find it in the morning. He is having none of that though.
I think screw this and walk back towards my house in the hope he just follows me.
Skillfully I jump the river this time.
I then encounter a fence I didn't know was there so I promptly attempt to climb over it. Looking at it this morning I have no idea how I managed it, it is up to my shoulders almost. I slipped off it first time but by the end of the night I was quite an expert.
I shout after Graham, nothing. I can't see any light from his phone. I go back in to look for him. Nothing.
Bit worried and annoyed now I phone my brother who I meet by the main road. He calls the police saying we have no chance and at least they can use search lights. While he does that I go back and look again (my hands and arms and ripped to shreads from all the brambles, my trainers are quite wrecked, and I have something stuck in my big toe I can't get out).
About 10 minutes later we see the police stop by the girls comp. We think this is because they weren't sure where our street is and we had had to mention that in the description. So I go and run over to them to show them where we are and what do I see, two policemen with Graham. Apparently he had fallen asleep, on the floor, next to the main road, right outside the girls comp. Apparently he was waiting for the trains to start.
On the way back to mine he is arguing that he doesn't want to go back to mine as my parents must never find out about it and he doesn't want them seeing him with one shoe. To solve this he comes up with a great idea. A show shop! We must take him to a shoe shop so he can buy one shoe.
Yeah at 3am he wants us to find a shop which will agree to sell him a solitary shoe. It also needs to look like the one he still has. The rest of us decide this isn't such a good plan and bluntly tell Graham, no, that won't be happening. He decides that he will go back in the forest instead. Me and my brother had to virtually drag him up the street to get him home. Accepting now that he actually has no choice and is going back to my house he starts to try and reach a compromise. No one is to know. We must never tell anyone, especially my parents (it's working out well for him so far :P).
In the time it took for me to remove my socks and shoes, he had passed out on the couch, dead to the world.
So I wake up this morning and go downstairs to the living room to check up on him. I see the cat on one settee looking all sweet and innocent, just lying there with her eyes open, and Graham is to my left completely out of it. I start to see a sign of life though. He moves! all be it very slowly. The weight of the world is clearly on this man but he is clearly trying to tell me something. Gradually his head lifts up off the arm rest, his eyes start flickering before eh gives in trying to open them. In an immensely croaky voice he manages to utter just two words to me before collapsing again...
"The cat!"
(a bit of background info for those who don't know her, my cat cries, a lot. A piercing gut renching wail that can dig deep into your very soul. Graham had slept through my parents regularly walk through the living room without even stirring. In just the thirty minutes she had been in somehow she had reached into his conscience and awaken some sort of recognition of the real world. It turned out she had sat on his chest and just cried at his head)
We never did find out why he went in the forest either and I obviously told my parents straight away in the morning though they kinda of already knew seeing as we had woken them up on coming in and the carpet was covered in mud. They just laughed though and mocked up a reward poster for the missing shoe.