Int. House.Day
The doorbell rings. JOYCE opens the door and BRIAN is standing there.
BRIAN
Joyce…Joyce I’m sorry
JOYCE
(Upset)
What? What is it?
BRIAN
It’s Tim, he, he wont be coming home
JOYCE
(Upset)
What happened?
BRIAN
He was found washed up this morning; they think his bungee cord may have snapped on his way down the waterfall.
JOYCE
(Crying)
Oh Brian, why? All because the lady loved Milk Tray…
BRIAN
It would seem so. I must say when we offered him the job of Milk Tray deliveryman; we had no idea that Tim would attack it with such vigour. A simple knock on the door and handing over the box would have sufficed
JOYCE
But he was always such a perfectionist…
BRIAN
Yes, though ultimately, I think he perhaps watched just one Bond film too many
JOYCE
He did like them, especially Moonraker…
BRIAN
(Confused)
Really?
JOYCE
I don’t know how Alan will take it…what can I tell him? He has had it hardest over the past few years, now he has lost a father too…
BRIAN
I can speak with him if you like? Tim was my best friend
JOYCE
Yes, perhaps that will be best; I will go and get him.
JOYCE exits and returns with ALAN who is the Milky Bar Kid
BRIAN
Alan, I have some very bad news…
Well, it happened again. Jack Frost aimed his giant winkie at Britain and used these once green and pleasant lands as his own sordid biscuit.
Yes, we are again being snowed on. It is getting a bit boring now isn't it? I am getting a bit fed up of walking on an ice rink and my trains always being late. Add to that the people at my work who seem to use it as an excuse to not show up.
Also, loads of happy kids pissing around in the park that I can see from my window at work. Sods. Why should they be happy?
The media seem to always dress up these events as some sort of "Day after tomorrow" type catastrophe. It clearly isn't. I think the problem is that the media cant blame it on Global Warming. They cant have a reporter stood in the north pole talking about melting ice caps, as they so like doing. No, it's January and it's supposed to do this.
So, instead they rattle on about the problems people are having getting to places. They even stopped and interviewed people in their cars who were having some mild trouble getting up a hill. Is this really news worthy?
Where are the light hearted stories like the Polish cleaner getting caught having it off with a hoover? Come on news, up your game.
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| Comments about This Article |
| Snow, in January though. Is that not kind of traditional? It's not as if the media can harp on about the N-Zone layer or the outhouse effect? Comment By: Ted, 13 Jan 2010, Rating: 5/5  |
| Actually an "Ice Age" for Britain is one of the predicted outcomes of ice cap meltage and global warming. So they probably will blame it on that. Comment By: Pedant, 13 Jan 2010, Rating: 5/5  |
| Come on boffins!!! We'll stay here all night working out the answer to this snow thing if we have to!!
Comment By: Mr Ic van Dyke, 13 Jan 2010, Rating: 5/5  |
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