Wheelistically @ Claire.NU

The other even­ing I was sat in a res­id­en­tial street, seated in the pas­sen­ger side of the car, wait­ing for K who was col­lect­ing PC games from inside a neigh­bour­ing house.

When sitting/waiting inside a vehicle, I tend not to have the interior light on. It makes me feel as though I’m in a gold­fish bowl and in full-view of every passer-by. So, there I was, mer­rily star­ing into space, mind­ing my own busi­ness and wait­ing patiently for K’s return, when a group of teen­age girls walked by the car door.

As they passed, the glow from the screens of the mobile phones caught my eye and I turned my head to look in their dir­ec­tion. At which point the girl closest to car let out an almighty shriek, fol­lowed by:

Scared Girl: “Oh my god!! There’s someone in that car!“
SG’s Friend: “Whaaa??“
Scared Girl: “I didn’t know there’s was any­one in that car, then they just moved!! Oh my god! She looked like the girl out of [the movie] The Grudge!!”

Admitedly, I do have long black hair that has a tend­ency to fall across my face, I sup­pose it was very dark and I was only lit par­tially by a nearby street lamp, but The Grudge??

Wow…Don’t I feel pretty…

Then again…Maybe with that light­ing, I did…Maybe…Just a little… After­all, this was me dur­ing my col­lege days…

Oh dear…