I'm blaming it on inhebriation
Once upon a time on holiday in Menorca with the family, I decided to stay up a little later after everyone went to bed to finish my drink and watch a few more of the weird trippy German techno videos they had on the hotel's version of MTV(I'm not into techno, it's just that with videos like those drugs are totally unnecessarry).

Finally, when my eyes had stopped revolving, I decided to retire to my room. Upon entering I froze; something had just dashed across the ceiling, just visible out of the corner of my eye. I had left the window open all day to allow some air in, and I was now wondering what else I could have inadvertantly let in.

Click. On go the lights and I start tearing everything apart looking for this unwelcome (and quite possibly deadly) houseguest.

After a while I look up to see the rest of my family stood in the doorway. I explain my predicament and they duly help me finish my search.

Satisfied that there is nothing in my room they all head back to their own beds, muttering insults as they go. I switch the light back off and settle down to sleep when something darts across the room again, same as before. I'm about to leap up and switch the lights back on when it happens yet again. And this time I notice it's always in the same field of view.

It turns out that a few strands of my hair had gotten loose and were swinging back and forth in front of my eyes, which in the low light looked very much like something running across the ceiling.

Glad everyone else had already gone back to bed and so weren't around to witness my realisation I finally settled down to sleep.



Alcohol, Mediterranean weather and German techno videos can fuck you up.

Fact.
( shovelboy This is bad - Two minutes to Belgium, Sun 25 Feb 2007, 23:59, Reply)