Dag 788: The post that hurts the most

The car was stuck behind behind 2 caravans and a lorry and progress was slow. The driver noticed that a green car had appeared behind him and was giving the appearence of impatience. The car seemed to be full of people and heavily laden.
The driver was not able to pass any of the vehicles in front of him and the green car was not able to pass him.
Eventually the winding road reached the motorway and the green car overtook the driver, who noticed that it appeared to be so heavily laden that the wheels seemed to be almost touching the wheel arches.
The green car was in the middle lane and had to brake as a lorry pulled out infront of it. The driver was picking up speed in his smart car and pulled into the overtaking lane passing both the green car and the lorry that had slowed it down.

The smart car carried on and the driver had forgotten all about the green car until about 15 minutes later he saw it in the rear view mirror. It looked like it was almost scraping the motorway under the weight of its load. It gradually caught up with the smart car and pulled into the overtaking lane. As it slowly passed the smart car the driver noticed that the passengers were watching the smart car and making hand gestures and shuffling body movements that suggested they were all willing the green car to be able to overtake the smart car. It took a while, but eventually the green car passed the smart car and pulled in front of it. The green car seemed to be going flat out as it stayed just infront of the smart car. The smart driver thought that maybe the green car hadn't liked being overtaken by a humble smart and wanted to assert its place in the car food chain by staying in front of the funny toy like smart car. After about 10 minutes the smart driver noticed that a bit of smoke seemed to be coming from one of the front wheels of the green car. He couldn't tell whether this was from the tire rubbing on something or coming from the engine. It had only been a wisp, but the smart pulled back a bit as he thought that this green car was probably driving a bit too hard and may be about to break down.

The smart car followed the green car for a few more miles and then suddenly a much thicker plume of smoke came from the green car and it slowed down, indicated and pulled onto the hard shoulder. The smart driver drove past and wondered what would become of the green car and its occupants. Were they on there way to a weekend away? Would the trip be over for them, or would they still make it to their destination. Would the car still have broken down if it hadn't been overtaken by that humble smart car? As these questions went through the mind of the driver a large motorway sign loomed up.

As the sign came into view the driver noticed the message made up of giant orange pixels "weekly woss weport next exit".

As so often happens he missed both the exit and the start of the show.

For me the show began with the tail end of some woman being interviewed and I have no idea who she is. No doubt I could find out with a quick diversion to google, but I think I prefer not to know.

So by the time I was sitting comfortably Mr Woss was talking about some drunk chimp giving him the finger. This was followed by Johnny Vegas doing what the chimp did (from the back room) and then it was his turn to come up to the desk of Woss. I find Johnny Vegas a really funny guy - I have seen quite a few episodes of ideal and really enjoyed it. It is currently on my list of DVDs to purchase. Whatever Mr Vegas says it always makes me laugh and tonight it was no different.

Next up was Joan Collins. I wasn't really very interested in hearing what she had to say so I spent the time catching up on emails and seeing if any more people had been visiting my myspace page. I now have 15 friends and my songs have had a total of 261 plays (even though 251 of those are probably from me visiting the page I can still kid myself that loads of people have been listening to them).

The show ended with not one but two songs by the red hot Chile peppers- I'm afraid they did not pass the old grey whistle test as far as I was concerned and were, in my view, what is sometimes referred to as rubbish. And the fact that they jumped around a lot didn't get them any extra kudos as far as I was concerned.

This morning I had seen that there was going to be some sort of religious type easter show in Manchester tonight and it was to be shown on BBC2. This didn't really catch my attention until they mentioned that it would contain music from Manchester groups including Joy Division and New Order, so I thought that might be a good thing to watch a bit of once Mr Woss had finished his stuff.

Changing the station to channel 2 was with me the work of a moment and I joined the program halfway through Blue Monday by New Order. It sounded pretty good with acoustic instruments. All in all I think it was a really good idea to put this show on and it certainly looks like plenty of people have turned up to see it. The only down side to it is the religious element which kind of puts me off, as I don't go in for all that stuff, but I still think it is a pretty good idea - if that can make sense.
I used to be a student in Manchester and have never been back since, but seeing the square brought back quite a few memories of those days.
In fact having watched this for a bit now, the religious elements are putting me off - even though I think the music is pretty good.

While I was driving back from Scotland today I was thinking about how people can believe that a god exists. It seems to me that if there was a god who had created the earth and all the creatures on it, if he was such a good god he would have created all creatures as vegetarians so that no creature had any need to harm or kill any other one. Various animals have various skills that help them survive, such as fur that blends in with the landscape. If god made them like this it seems to me that he/she was playing some sort of sadistic game whereby the animals that are considered prey get a bit of a chance of not being killed by the stalkers. Its a bit like those films where the baddies let their prey have a head start and then go after them.

Anyway that's enough religious talk - anyone would think it was some sort of religious day or something.