Monday, April 27, 2015

Hearing footsteps behind you

I make little agreements with myself when I'm walking. 
'Get to the top of  the hill before you eat a mint.'
'The top top or the half top?'
'Top top.'
Quarter way up

A little while later, 'Actually I may not make it to the top top so half top will be fine.'

I have a slight snuffly cold that I would blame for my puffing and panting if it weren't for the fact that I always puff and pant up the hill but I like to think my panting were just a bit huskier and sexier today. Then again I do have a vivid imagination.

There was nobody there to hear me anyway. It's very quiet in the woods. Now that the man who lived in a tent has moved on we very rarely see anyone. So that made hearing footsteps behind me a little scary.

I'd reached the top of the hill (hooray, have a mint!) and was walking along when I became aware of a noise behind me. The sound of steps following me. Heavy steps treading through the undergrowth. The sort of sound a large man would make. A large man with an evil gleam in his eyes and a sharpened meat cleaver in his hand. That sort of noise.

I called George to come and rescue me. He glanced back at me, shrugged and carried on walking. I could see it was up to me.

I plucked up my courage and looked around.

And realised the noise came from the poo bag I'd tied onto the camera bag and that was sashaying to and fro. 

3 comments:

nick said...

Strange unidentified sounds can be remarkably scary. Things that go bump in the night, as they say.

The mint scenario brings another memory to my ancient mind - "Murraymints, the too-good-to-hurry mints". And of course Polo, the mint with the hole.

Liz Hinds said...

And fruit polo. Do they still make those I wonder.

Rose said...

Ha, ha, I'm certainly glad it was just a poo bag and not a man with a cleaver:) If George is anything like Sophie, I'm not sure he would have been much protection. I always say that if someone broke into our house, Sophie would welcome them and offer to show them all our valuables:)