Hi Everyone,

It’s official.... I AM a genius, read on....

I had a wonderful drive into work this morning, the roads were empty, the sun was shining, the birds were singing, no smog over Madrid – one of those Halcyon days when nothing could go wrong.

As I entered the car park where I work, I couldnt believe my eyes!!! Hundreds of empty parking spaces.

At this point I wondered if the clocks had gone back a couple of hours and I had forgotten to change the time on my watch, so I checked the time on the clock in the car (it’s one of those snazzy clocks linked directly to the atomic-caesium clock in Berlin which automatically updates for all world time zones and accurate to a squillionth of a second) and no – the time was right on my watch.

Had I slipped through some extra-dimensional portal to a world where I was the only person still alive? Possibly.....As the Twilight Zone music started playing in my mind
I was struck firmly between the eyes by the crushing reality of my situation, there would be no more parties, no more chicas, and possibly, no more Gin and Tonic!!! Disaster loomed.

I hesitantly swiped my card through the security lock, and submitted to the retinal scan, at least in this extra-dimensional world my security clearance was still valid – ¡Rarisimo! (Bizarre!). I mounted the staircase to go through the final security check to be greeted by the sounds of laughter – I was not alone!! I estimated there were at least 3 people in this dimension (including myself). With a spring in my step I approached the sound of laughter I saw 2 extra-dimensional beings, who miraculously resembled the Securitas Security Guards that I knew back in my own dimension, they were laughing at the security camera screens and muttering such words as “Pendejo” and “idiota” ie “dumb” and “stupid”, then the word “Guiri” – “Tourist”! I realised then that they had been monitoring MY progress into the Secure Facility.

“How rude” I thought, after all it isnt every day that you get to meet a trans-dimensional traveller.

I approached the desk in readiness to take them to task, after all I was an envoy for my own world, when one of them, sporting a grin expansive enough to suck all the oxygen out of a football stdium, held up a sign that read “Hoy es Mayo 1” (“Today is May 1st”).

I felt myself going weak at the knees, blackness was rushing into my field of view, confusion reigned supreme, and finally, this GENIUS realised that he had just driven 40 kilometres to work, had NOT crossed dimensions, was not a World Envoy, and WAS an “idiota”.

Today is a Bank Holiday in Spain!!!!

Ha, ha.
I like the way you told that story, it reminded me of an old friend.

You must really enjoy your job to have forgotten an 'off day'!

Thanks for the quick Spanish lesson by the way.
¡Rarisimo! - Bizarre!

Well, Einstein was a genius and legend has it that he could never remember his own phone number.

So, you're probably a genius -- at the very least, a gifted story teller. You made the very common sound intriguing. Not easy to do!

Thanks all....

But dont you just HATE when that happens? Must remember that tomorrow is also a holiday!!