Energyman

Felt quite weird being back in the library today (24 June 2011), it strangely felt quite normal, no obvious psychopaths hissing and hyperventilating – but this odd sense of calmness lasted for 30 seconds…… Energyman had metamorphosised beside be. After watching the same trailer for Captain America several times over he suddenly paused, gripped his head firmly in a lock with both hands then savagely pulled to one side – the crack reverberating along several study desks causing two Polish students to zip up their pencil cases and contemplate an early departure – at first I thought no spinal cord could suffer such a trauma but I was wrong; Energyman continued to be transfixed with Captain America and over the next 30 minutes guzzled down 4 large energy drinks – I half expected him to bolt from the library like a cheetah who had just had half a kilo of crushed chillis forced in to its anus.

At first I thought this guy was quite normal. Wrong. He soon tuned into YouTube and started watching The Incredible Hulk from the 1970s – I should also explain that this guy was grossly overweight, hairy and had just ripped open a packet of M&Ms – the peanuts could clearly be heard being crushed in his gob.

This was too much, I couldn’t concentrate on any writing, he soon started to alternate between breathing really heavily – I could actually picture the chambers in his heart flapping away – and scratching at the folds of flesh around his midriff – I packed my rucksack and left as Energyman returned to Captain America; I was comforted in the knowledge that the library’s lunatics, in my absence, had been there all along.