In the Company of Zappers

I didnt think it was possible, but now I know it is. I have been Zapped.
Sunday evening we had a "friend" round for dinner. Unknown to me at the time, but this person is a fully qualified Zapper. A Zapper is a person that manages to skilfully suck the happiness and high energy from people around them, but channels this positive energy into total negative energy.

Picture the situation.

" Hey, how are you ?"
"Oh alright, I suppose"

" What you been upto then"
" Nothing really"

" Hows work?"
" Same ol shite"

For 1 hour it continued like this. Small talk, one word answers back. I then sat back and thought, why bother? They are just so Dull. Dull. DULL! Leave them to their world of dullness. Let dullness prevail. But that was the problem it had prevailed and now I felt drained, deflated and depressed. I had been zapped! A zapper had zapped my happy energy. Energy that cannot be created or destroyed. The zapper had done his deadly deed for the day. Mission accomplished.

I think Zappers should wear big Zap badges. That way the public at large will know how to recognise a Zapper and take the necessary precautions.

Anyway on a more serious note, its 50 days since the BBC Gaza Correspondent, Alan Johnston was taken hostage and held captive in Palestine. His elderly parents made a dignified appeal to his captors on TV which included a resonanting plea : "This is no way to treat a friend of the Palestinian People"

Since then there have been many vigils and demonstrations to keep up the pressure and demand for the immediate release of Alan Johnstone in the public eye.

The BBC website is currently holding a petition against the captivity of Alan.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6518185.stm

The petition states:

"We, the undersigned, demand the immediate release of BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston. We ask that everyone with influence on this situation increase their efforts to ensure that Alan is freed quickly and unharmed."

Free Alan Johnstone!