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This is going to sound really weird, just occasionally I feel as though I have wandered into some strange fifth dimension or alternate reality. Nothing works, simple questions elicit odd responses or the individual questioned looks at me as though I have suddennly started speaking in Greek, or I have grown an extra head or limb or something. It never happens when Mister Bear is there - or anyone else for that matter - and as soon as I have someone else with me this "alternate reality" goes away. I am starting to get quite paranoid about it.
Today is a good example. Yesterday I went to the plaza to buy Mister Bear a Christma present. I wanted to buy him the next book in the Rome series by Colleen McCullough. I heard Kerri-Anne interviewing her during the week about the book so I was fairly confident that I'd be able to buy it.
In short, no.
I went to three different bookshops. In the first it was nowhere to be seen and I hunted high and low. In the second, not only could I not find the book I was after, I couldn't find any hard back books at all. In the third shop the sales assitant was free so I asked about it. She looked at me as though I was aksing for a kilo of prawns in a bookshop and claimed she had never heard of it. She looked it up on the computer, more to humour me than anything else and claimed it was not there.
I gave up and bought something else instead. I was shattered because I knew Mister Bear really wanted that particular book. I told him of my woes when we met up in the Plaza. (Actually I sobbed into his shirt front outside Big W...not having such a good time at the moment, as it happens.)
Today we went looking together. The first shop he tried, yes, it is available but it's out of stock at the moment. The second shop - the one with no visible hardbacks...the guy picked it up off the shelf and handed it to Mister Bear. I swear it was not there yesterday. I looked at every single book in the fiction section of the store and it was not there!
It's bought now and awaiting wrapping but I am left with this awkward feeling that my reality is not quite like everyone else's reality and that I am totally losing my grip.
