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Off work sick today, just with a mild kidney infection, nothing too hallucinogenic, and popped round the corner about 30 minutes ago to the local offy to get some milk. Just as I got near the shop I saw a middle aged bloke, looking pretty unkempt, crossing the road and going into the shop.
"Mmm," I thought to myself, "no doubt just off for his lunch in the form of a bottle of White Lightning..." as, I'm afraid to say, he totally resembled the stereotypical unemployed, daytime drunk. Seconds later...and I mean seconds - like four or five at the most - I followed him into the shop only to find the shopkeeper there, (who looks nothing like this bloke I'd just seen go in) and nobody else. It's a pretty tiny shop, and the only way this bloke could have vanished was to go through to the back, but considering how slow he was crossing the road, and the fact that the shopkeeper was bending down behind the counter, I couldn't see how he could have got into the shop and gone through in such a short space of time.
Intruiged I asked the shopkeeper if anybody else had just come in...
"No," he said, "you're the first person in today..." :eek!!!!: [cue Twilight Zone music]...
Strange, but true...
"Mmm," I thought to myself, "no doubt just off for his lunch in the form of a bottle of White Lightning..." as, I'm afraid to say, he totally resembled the stereotypical unemployed, daytime drunk. Seconds later...and I mean seconds - like four or five at the most - I followed him into the shop only to find the shopkeeper there, (who looks nothing like this bloke I'd just seen go in) and nobody else. It's a pretty tiny shop, and the only way this bloke could have vanished was to go through to the back, but considering how slow he was crossing the road, and the fact that the shopkeeper was bending down behind the counter, I couldn't see how he could have got into the shop and gone through in such a short space of time.
Intruiged I asked the shopkeeper if anybody else had just come in...
"No," he said, "you're the first person in today..." :eek!!!!: [cue Twilight Zone music]...
Strange, but true...