One more, for today.
As I've mentioned, my mate Eddie has an odd sort of connection to the "other side" (ooooOOOOoooh). It's not like he's constantly shrouded in mist or anything, but on occasion he sees things. On one such occasion, I was present. It was, without doubt, the strangest night of my life.

Eddie's mum's friend, Lynne, had recently lost her partner, and as we had became friendly with his brother, John, we took him out for a drink to try to cheer him up a little. When the pub closed, we went back to Lynne's house. She was there with John's parents, and I will remember that night for the rest of my days.

The lights were flickering. The cd they had playing kept jumping. The door to the cd cabinet kept opening and closing on it's own. There were several heavy thuds from upstairs. Lynne, who was understandably fairly drunk, sat in the middle of the floor with a big grin and kept saying "that's him! he's speaking to us!" All the while, Eddie kept jumping and looking over his shoulder..... he later told me something kept prodding him in the back.

I was shitting myself.

When we left, Eddie looked at the ground and said "he is NOT happy" Having just been in there with him, I didn't ask what he meant.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Sun 6 Jul 2008, 20:38, 3 replies)

It's called grief
"The lights were flickering." they were on the blink for a while her bloke never got round to fixing them and now he's dead so can't.

"The cd they had playing kept jumping" see previous - as lights.

"several heavy thuds from upstairs" - the cats are anxious too. They have been hiding upstairs since the bloke went away and keep knocking over the boxes of his stuff in her bedroom

"that's him! he's speaking to us!" - that's the drink, and the grief.

It's a bummer when someone dies. Eddie just mixes with the wrong crowd.
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Sun 6 Jul 2008, 21:31, closed)

You had to be there.
You really had to be there.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 0:44, closed)

Eddie
I saw him at Twickenham on Saturday night.
He wasn't looking too good, all covered in bandages and that. It was about 2 minutes to midnight and I have a fear of the dark.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 11:23, closed)