Recurring dream: sitting at the bus stop

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Date: 22 April 2008 13:52:12

So I have this dream occasionally. I'm sitting at the bus stop (grassy verge near my house), waiting for the school bus. There is a box with a towel on it. I look underneath and there's a brand new computer. Then I realise it's actually a whole lot of boxes, with a few towels on top, with a whole lot of computers and various other things. I realise that someone has stolen these goods and left them here to be picked up by an accomplice. They have cunningly disguised them with the towels but I am not a fool!

I notice that one of the towels belongs to someone from school - I saw it at the swimming carnival. I call him to let him know that his towel has been stolen. Turns out he had two towels, and this is the less exciting one.

I have to call the police to tell them about this pile of stolen stuff, but I'm in a quandary. It's not an emergency so I can't call 000. But what if the accomplice turns up to collect the stash before the police arrive? And I don't have the number for my local station. So I call my mother and ask her to drive to the bus stop with the phone directory.

Then a friend from uni and her hippie friends arrive and start taking stuff from the pile. They ignore me when I tell them to stop. My friend tells me to lighten up because they're just taking a couple of board games, including Hungry Hungry Hippos.

Thankfully the bus arrives and the friend and her hippie friends get on. I tell them I'll see them at school - I need to stay with the stolen goods until the police arrive.

The mother has still not arrived with the phone directory. I call her, and it turns out that she's parked around the corner. She saw the hippies and thought she should stay undercover. I discuss the situation and we decide to put the stash in her car and take it to the police station ourselves.

Then I wake up.