A Hope in Hell

Let me share another interesting experience with all of you. The thrill of stalking. Not too many people know that I am a stalker or possess the capabilities to do so. Those whom I have told do not believe me fully.

Well there is a girl at college. Sexy young thing that she is. Not going to stay long however. I have due to my obsessions located her room. Now, after telling many people about my object of desire and moaning about the cruelty of life - I decided I would do something I haven't done since i was 17. I was going to go to her room!

Not of course that I was actually going to do anything when I got there. The imaginative mind can play many scenarios that would have liked to have been played out. But at the end of the day - I'm a realist. I don't have a hope in hell. But maybe I will approach that subject in my next post. Right now we are talking about a stalk out!

So dress sense. I had to look normal. The ultimate skill of stalking is not to be seen by anyone. However, that sometimes cannot be avoided. Therefore - don't dress in black or something dumb like that - it only serves to increase the suspicion. But anyway, on this night - I had no reason to be in the building, I did not want to be caught by anyone. Chose my white coat and my college scarf - not very dark nor dodgy and of I was.

Let me explain the building I was dodging around in. For one it is round. The rooms are built all around the central passages of each floor, that in turn encircle two staircases and a lift in the centre of the building. It is hell of a confusing place to wander in if you don't know it. Now I knew where her room was from the outside, but to tell it from the inside passages with no view of the outside world, was the challenge. However, I have knowledge of the place. I knew the location of one of the rooms in the building on another floor right above her room. Since the floors are replicas of each other, if I could locate that room within then by simply translating that one floor down I would have her room! Easy.

Okay - so I go down into the basement entrance. Don't worry everyone goes by the basement entrance to the lift. Just before I open the door towards the lift - I hear the lift door opening one passage beyond. Dodge into the staircase beside. Just manage to get out of view as the passage door opens and someone walks out. Walk up one floor via the staircase. Dodge out on ground as someone comes down the staircase. Navigate to the alternate staircase. Walk up that stairs, come out one floor above girl's floor. Walk out into circular corridor (now these corridors have two doors that split the floor in half) hear someone open the other half of corridor, headed towards me. Move in opposite direction, hear door opening - person must be in my half now - staircase too risky, dodge into other half - hear person opening door to staircase. Locate room I know. Take note of location. Head down staircase without incident. Notice papers stuck to doors announcing not to be cleaned... Occupied rooms! Head downstairs without any ado. Locate room! With piece of paper stuck to it. Success! Hear door opening from staircase. Use curved corridor to my advantage and disappear round corner. Stop. Think... There were only two doors with paper on them. The person was fast and definitely went into one of those rooms... She just went into her room! Laugh to myself. Head down by lift. Just as I'm about to exit hear footsteps down staircase (the first one I went hiding up on) - wait. Of course it's her. She just went up to get something. And lo and behold I'm right. Say hi. She's off to go drinking with her american friends and footie kids. Mission success.

Of course at the end of the day I lose. But hey, man I'm good at hide and seek. It was good fun playing these games with people who didn't know they were playing. And there was adrenaline and a pretty girl in the game too.

I just wish I was good at a heap of other things. And the universe is indeed a cruel cruel cruel place.