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When i was about 14 i went with my step-brother to see LOTR:2 towers. At the time i was living in Fife and the only cinema near us was in Dunfermline.
For those of you that don't know Fife i lived ina small town called Glenrothes which was about half an hours drive away.

Anyway, we got the bus, saw the film and a good time was had by us both. We then phoned my dad to come pick us up but found that he was too stoned to drive, as was my step-mum. We were also told not to get a taxi.

In the end we decided to walk. You may wonder where this is going but on that night 2 strange things happened.

We decided to head through to Lochgelly which was a closer town that John's (my step-brother) gran lived. We set off and got there at about 5am. Our cousin let us in and we sat for about an hour then were thrown out by John's gran.

Aren't family lovely?

Anyway, we decided to head on to Glenrothes and as we were passing a cemetery there was a man jogging. My cousin asked him for a light as he had left his at home and he replied "sorry mate i don't smoke" and continued jogging. We all looked away for a couple of seconds, i think we were talking about alternate means for fire and when we looked back jogging dude was gone. He had just vanished.

The rest of the journey passed without incident and we finally got home at about 9am. The second strange part is this. How the hell did it take us from 11pm to 9am to walk 20 miles? :/
(panda_sam, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 13:37, 9 replies)

your family sound wonderful
No wonder you're on b3ta.

I blame it on the parents. All of it.
( I_Was_Mordred, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 13:41, closed)

11pm til 9am is 10 hours
30miles in 10hours equals 3miles per hour.
Which is about right, for walking.
( TY&GN, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 13:42, closed)

the walking home bit sounds quite normal actually
30 miles in 10 hours - 3 miles per hour - which is about average walking speed.

edit: 20 miles in 10 hours - 2 miles per hour - which is about average strolling speed :)
(bobming, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 13:42, closed)

ahh lol
i need to edit that, it's supposed to be 20 >.<
(panda_sam, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 13:43, closed)

By Fife standards
Glenrothes is bloody huge. It's got about 50000 people.

Edit - I agree - it is shite.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 13:43, closed)

by fife standards
it's a crappy little town. if you were to ask anyone in fife what they thought of glenrothes you'd get that answer 9 times out of 10 ;p
(panda_sam, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 13:45, closed)

just vanished eh?
... like, into the darkness? Spooooky!
(haberman is singing in the changes, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 14:02, closed)

You
should have stayed in Lochgelly, home of that wonderful instrument, the Lochgelly Tawse, maybe visited the Dick family's workshop (steady), smell the leather. Hmmm, yeah. Just don't use the tawse on hands, that's just twisted. Arses only!!!! (Go steady until well warmed up!)


Erm, so I'm told.
(Rsoles, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 18:30, closed)

...
Your parents are stoners, suggesting that you yourself might not be a stranger to the weed, and you were asking for a light...

...want me to guess why you took so long?
(Musuko, Sat 5 Jul 2008, 23:54, closed)