Today serp experiences the commonwealth games first hand. I was walking home from uni this afternoon with my head down trying to get my damn iPod working as it was on its last legs battery wise, I keep running into people, I figure that this is strange why are all these people out the front of Glenferrie High? I figure some school event just finished and they were all going to clear off, I keep walking trying to keep out of everyones road while hammering at my iPod controls trying to find some mix I wanted to listen too. I get maybe 100 metres up the road and I see all these old people sitting on chairs on the sidewalk, at the same time I see some cops on a bikes roar past wailing there sirens every few seconds, it then hits me that the bloody torch thing is coming down the road. I start to walk faster but more and more people keep appearing from nowhere, out of shops, up the road from houses, out of cars, all jammin' the sidewalk impeding my quest to make it to the major intersection near my house. I finally get to said intersection and when I get there some van comes whizzing up and stops near the traffic lights and lets some yuppie sports dude out, half the crowd cheers while the other half are saying "who is this guy?", this dude ends up being one of the relay runners, joy. I work my way around the crowd and defty move my hand between two old peoples junk trunks and press the button that makes the green walking man appear in the traffic lights across the road, I wait around while heaps of people rush up the road to take photos of the relay runner that is standing around waiting and posing for photos for other people already taking photos of him. In the midist of all this happen, I suddenly realise that my iPod has somehow gone into some bios mode where it has all these options to run all these tests, format my hard disc, check the temperature of certain bits and all sorts of crap, fascinated I start pawing through all the options and try every command that sounds like it won't make my iPod explode. From doing this I missed my lights, I press the button again, wait, and then start to walk across the road. All of a sudden some police guy jumps out at me and is all omgdontcrosstheroadbbq! Even though there was no traffic and the tourch thing was still ages down the road. So here I was, stranded on the wrong side of the road from my house, surrounded by 50% supporters of this thing and 50% nay-sayers (oh man, the shit people were sayin', yet they were still choosing to stand there and watch it), realising that I really need to take a massive dump, and getting hot cause the sun had really started to shine and I had my heavy backpack on. But anyway, I can't be bothered typing this post anymore so lets shorten it shall we? The tourch came down the road, not before about 20 to 30 cops on motorcycles came down before it, everybody cheered when the baton changed hands, many photos were taken, 10 seconds after the guy ran off up the street the crowd went away, I was allowed to cross the road and I went home and took a well deserved dump. The End.