He Wants To Believe / July 24 2008
There was a knock on the door half an hour ago. Standing there was Reg, breathless and sweating profusely. His tiny Jack Russell was trying to urinate on every vertical surface within three feet of my front door.
‘Here, I’ve come to show you this again. Amazing, eh?’ He thrust an object into my hands whose provenance I knew he had previously explained to me. I realised I had completely forgotten what I had been told about it and asked him to forgive my rudeness. He remained silent, staring at me like a fretful schoolboy about to leap from a cliff.
‘You’ll have to remind me what it is, Reg.’ I was holding a small lump of dull, twisted, metallic rock that smelled faintly of sulphur.
‘Remember? I found it in a crater in the middle of nowhere out by the old pit yards in Hilcote. Remember?’
‘Oh, yes, that’s right. You saw it fall from the sky.’
‘No, idiot. I saw something fall from the sky about three weeks ago. I found that later, in the same direction.’
‘A meteorite.’
‘Meteorites don’t look like that!’ He said this as if I had just suggested something that was so ridiculous as to be truly shocking. ‘Flying saucer, my lad. U.F.O.’ He stressed the three letters by slowly poking me in the chest with his big, powerful index finger.
‘I’m ever so busy, Reg.’
He placed the lump of metal in its Tesco carrier bag and then into the safety of his inside jacket pocket. ‘You won’t believe what I saw on Tuesday night,’ he said ‘about two in the morning.’
‘You’ll have to tell me later, Reg.’
‘Don’t worry, I will.’ He trudged off down the road, nodding his head and whistling the high-pitched top line from the X-Files.
Filed under Aliens / Movies / Reg / UFOs / X-Files
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5 comments on “He Wants To Believe”
Nelson Galaxy / July 28th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Reg is a proper mentalist. Be careful. He may visit you in the night wearing a William Shatner mask, with the eyes cut out of it.
Napoleon Fantastic / July 29th, 2008 at 10:20 am
He’s convinced he’s found some aliens, or at least evidence of being visited by them.
You can see why they would want to come here, though. It’s because there’s so much . . . er . . .
Nelson Galaxy / July 29th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Hate
Nelson Galaxy / July 29th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Hate and chips
Napoleon Fantastic / July 29th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
And phlegm and used condoms on the streets. And fat people.
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