the bus...

The great thing about catching a public bus: the strange people who randomly decide to chat to you. Last night some 30 year old guy in a long black jacket, badly bleached hair and feminine voice eating god-knows-what overheard me attempting to tell Hannah about Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - poorly I might add. This poor attempt seems to be what caught this guys attention because he turned around to us and asked if we were talking about Hitchhikers's. After admitting that yes we were talking about that movie he decided to explain the 'real' concept and how when he was seven years younger than we are now (we are both 17) the book was made into a tv show which he loved, so, of course, he knew exactly what he was talking about. I don't know if what he said was correct, but it sounded interesting. He said the book was actually about a French-man who was guiding (hence Hitchhiker's Guide) someone and the "galaxy" he was guiding him around was a metaphor for religion. So the book was really about a man's realisation of life and religion. However he then went on to comment on the lateness of the bus and the fact that there was a couple kissing in front of us, and that 30 year olds really knew everything, or at least something about everything. It was interesting...