This is the story of "They"...
I told a few lies when I were but a wee'un not long after suckling at my ma's teet.

One that still makes me laugh is blaming my dad for filling the shampoo bottle up with water. At the time it was only my parents+ me and I were 4...Jokingly, to this day, whenever the story is brought up, I still claim it was him!

But this story isnt about me. No....

It would instead be about a friend from College, Tom (Name changed to protect the guilty)

Tom was an ok guy. We got on well. One day we were sitting around talking and someone asks Tom what his dad does for a living. "My dad works for the Government...MI5"....right..... Giving the guy the benefit of the doubt, we ask for some details. His dad has been to the gulf (a lie in itself, MI5 are responsible for security within the UK...MI6 deals with security outside the UK...common knowledge), worked in London, dealt with "unsavories" etc...

And on another day we were in his house. He says "oi, come here, take a look at this"....and points to a cupboard under the stairs...." see this, in there is a red button, you cant push it cos its a panic button directly linked to my dad's work"...."open the cupboard and let us have a look" we cry. Desperate to take alook at the mysterious button of doom. If someone tells you not to push a button, you're *obviously* going to do all you can to push it.

At that point one of the *ahem* fatter of out company drags Tom out of the way, and looks inside...there is indeed a red button. So we do whatever 17 year old would do...push the button.

The adrenalin kicked in, panic set in Tom looked close to tears we froze. Listening, and then we heard it. The sweet sound of..............Nothing. Absolutly nothing. No police. No helicopters. No Ambulances. No mysteriously well dressed guys with ray-ban's on called "Mr. Smith". Nadda, nothing.

We left soon after with Tom claiming "they" will be here any minute now. "They" never arrived.

I later found out his dad is a builder.

Length? No matter how many times we pushed the button, it didnt reach MI5 HQ
(drain_bamaged, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 13:02, 2 replies)

what...
did the button do?

we need to know
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 14:15, closed)

Yup We do
What did it do?
(Barry Chuckle has gone out in the thong to feed the pigeons, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 20:01, closed)