Bree, this was in your mail posted in digest no 87... I am not sure if it is you saying it or if it is taken from someone else's mail and put in....ANYWAY
there is this piece below in your mail. "Have you never lost your train of thought? There have been times I have been driving and my mind wanders and I don't remember how I got from point A to B. It's just all of a sudden I am at point B. (I know this is dangerous..but it has happened on more than one occasion with me)" Oh I can relate to that so totally and became a little worried when I read "Communion" by Whitley Streiber....the story is thus...... I had to drive from my house in Hamsphire to Mold in North Wales in one day.. It was December 1983......some of you are already appraised of the fact that the UK is unable to cope with 2 degrees of frost .....so to drive 180 miles up and then 180 miles back in December...... with snow above Bristol was a slightly hopeful venture even in good weather... ALSO those who have not been here...... . Please understand that the UK is a huge network of not very wonderful roads and once you are off the motorways the system might speed up (our motorways make excellent Long Term Parking) but you may find that the quality and width of the roads, and standard of winter gritting, may not be up to much.... Anyway I left at 5 am and had got to Bristol M4/M5 by 8.30 (hey some going....99 miles) then headed up the M5 to get up to the M6 and acriss to Mold.. I then had to find a transmitter site (DON'T EVEN GET ME TO EXPLAIN WHY) and I got there by noon... the snow was thick and the car was a ford cortina (I WAS A REP OK) and hated the climb up the track to the site... I had lunch and then headed home with a very very expensive spectrum analyser in the back of the car.....I remember getting to Kidderminster... I had decided to come home down the valleys (IT IS SOO BEAUTIFUL) but after Kidderminster I have no memory at all except that I awoke the next morning, in my bed. I went to drive to work and checked the car boot....(back bit where you store things for those of you puzzled is that the TRUNK in US speak?)... and there was no analyser there.PANIC OR WHAT... this piece of kit was about 27,000 pounds sterling at the time and it had gone....... I drove in to work in tears and had composed my resignation letter by the time I got there... I walked into the workshop and there was the analyser on the bench with my notes on what needed to be done to it... I had driven to work the night before, given the analyser to the night staff and gone home....... I am missing something like 18 hours of my life!!! I truly have no recollection of doing any of this and when I read COMMUNION I did wonder about having been TAKEN.... Well that is my strange A to B story and it was very weird.. Lucy
