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07 December 2006

Weird things that happened to me during about an hour this evening →[More:]

College cafeteria serves mushroom stroganoff. It is made with pickles, which give the whole thing a vinegary acidic taste. No, eating around them is not possible, the mushrooms taste like heated pickles now. The most disgusting thing I have had there in more than three years of almost daily eatin'
I get a notice from Royal Mail saying that someone unspecified sent me an envelope 37p postage due and if I want to know what it is, I'll have to pay Royal Mail £1.37.
I come this close to a guy cycling the wrong way down a one way street, on a sidewalk, with no headlights
I get my serviced Palm TX in the mail, and while it has the same serial number as the old one it appears to be new rather than repaired (hey, there had to be some good news)

post by: grouse at: 19:18 | 5 comments

Oh yeah, it was a narrow sidewalk that would barely fit two people side by side that it is not legal to cycle on in either direction. He said sorry and cycled off without stopping. I yelled at him to stop driving the wrong way on a one-way street.

posted by grouse 07 December | 19:20

he flipped you off in the dark.

posted by quonsar 07 December | 21:56

Pickles? In mushroom stroganoff? WTF, dude.

posted by Specklet 07 December | 22:22

The pickles in mushroom stroganoff thing was a dead giveway. Standard fare on any alien ships that abduct people to insert mind control devices via anal probe; everything else was a test pattern they run to verify that the inserted device is working.

Saline laxatives are sometimes effective in the first 24 hours after a person is "returned," as they can short out the device, which will drain its nuclear micro-reactor, and enable you to pass it. After that, it "assimilates," and you'll need medical help, if you can find anybody that will believe your stories, and that can still be trusted. Of course, by then, you probably won't "want" the device removed, and pickles in mushroom stroganoff will be something you relish (get it?).

posted by paulsc 08 December | 04:09

Wow paulsc, now I'm really scared.

posted by grouse 08 December | 04:45

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