THERE IS AN EXPLANATION. Iām so sorry for what ended up being a teaser of a post, but there is a story and itās not INCREDIBLY WEIRD I promise.
Basically, around the time I was born one of my uncles was dying. Iāve been told that he saw how poetic it was, and that holding newborn me helped a little bit. But soon after I was born he passed away.
Now I donāt know all the details, and some of what I know might be wrong, it was 23 years ago now and I was a newborn butĀ parts of the family (including my mum and a couple of my extended cousins) were transporting his body to Edrom, Scotland. My cousin had this van that was a huge part of her entire persona, so we loaded it up, everyone was settled, and away we went!
Everyone has their own way of dealing with loss, and if Iām entirely honest at least most of my family are the most interesting people I know. So it was kind of a really jaunty trip, everyone was in high spirits, and it was a long drive. We had to stop to refuel, it was quite late at night, and there was some bloke who wanted to hitch a ride (or we offered him a ride). Either way, we had a hitchhiker.
Now, if my cousin remembered it right, she did disclose that we had a body in the back. He was in his coffin but still. Mysterious Stranger assured that it was no problem, heās seen a body before, itās late, he just wants to get where heās going.
So, the Weirdly Cheerful Road Trip continued with this new person! And I suppose it was just⦠too weird. Because at some point he just kinda demanded that we stop the van, he hopped out, and just⦠left.
And to be fair, if you managed to grab a lift with a small group of strangers with a body in a coffin, and everyone is just singing and having a grand olā time, it would be a bit unnerving to say the least. I certainly donāt blame him for needing to bail. But I hope heās ok and he got where he needed to go. And now Iāve cast this frightfully specific weird post into the internet in the hope of maybe finding that person so I can be reassured that theyāre ok, and they can be assured that weāre not dangerous folks. Weāre just eccentric.