Charlie & Chantelle

The End of the World –

He sat up and yawned.

‘That was a lovely sleep.’

‘You don’t know the half of it.’

‘What do you mean?’

‘Well, you slept through it.’

‘What?’

The End of the World.’

‘What channel was it on, we can always get it on catch-up?’

‘No. I mean the End of the World. It finished last night.’

‘So how come we’re still here?’

‘We’re not. Here, I mean. We’re somewhere else.’

‘I’m still here, you’re still here, the beds still here. I bet if I open the curtains the street is still here.’

‘It might all look the same, but “Here” is not “Here” anymore. It’s somewhere else.’

‘ Hold on, turn the telly on, let’s see the news.

‘See, all the same crap, football, famine and fanny. Nothing about the End of the World.’

‘That’s ‘cos they don’t know. Look at the date, 2018. When the Earth finished it somehow jumped six months and nobody noticed.’

‘You noticed. How come you noticed and nobody else did? Are you some sort of time traveller? Don’t tell me I married a Time Lord?’

‘ I don’t know how I know. I went to the loo in the night, and when I came out I had to go and do it all again. It was weird.’

‘It was that kebab more like. Hold on, hold on! Does that mean that we skipped Christmas?’

‘We must have done.’

‘So, I didn’t get my iPhone 8?’

‘Doesn’t look like it.’

‘Oh, bugge🛌🛌🛌r that. I’m going back to sleep. Wake me up when the iPhone 9 is due.’

Colin Payn 26/8/17

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