Thick and Thin

Readers of Steven King novels will be familiar with the concept of thinness - places where the gaps in the dimensions between universes are thinner, at certain times of year, or at certain places, or when certain events happen, and at which people or "things" can poush through from one dimension to the other. Purely hyperthetically of course. And entirely science/horror fiction.

Although Terry Pratchett, another writer also uses the thinness concept, Havelock Vetinari, for one, and several of the Assasins Guikld being able to stand still and melt into the background becoming invisible, or as near as invisible as makes no odds. Witches are good at it, Granny Weatherwax being the best, and Mr Teatime is also able to creep up on people using his thinning techniques.

This becomes of interst because there are occasions when I, and my car, become unwilling participants in the art of thinning. You would think that a grey and blue FORD Courier van, driven with the headlamps on even in daylight, (an advanced drivers habit) would stand out somewhat. Running on Vegetable oil, most people claim they can SMELL me approaching long before they see me, but the headlamps should surely make me stand out? Not so, on some days, it seems. Within a 3/4 mile stretch in broad daylight the other day I had not one, not two, but three people pull out right in front of me. I can only assume that I was having an unknowing THIN day. Both me and my van had become almost transparent. This in itself was perhaos pure coincidence. Bu thten I had a THICK day. Thsi is not a comment on my mental capacity. No a THICK day ios the opposiute of a THIN day, when you exist, not just in this world, but in others as well, the resutl I think being that you are doubly solid, and more here than before, having much more density and substance than is strictly necessary.

On the same stretch of road where I had been THIN only 24 hours before I had a THICK drive to work. I realised this as the traffic ahead of me was particularly heavy, as was the traffic behind me. Cars were approaching in lane two as I drove atteh speed limit 40 mph in lane one. The really wierd thing was that the cars speeding along lane two slowed as they approached me and would not pass or even coem close - they held back by about 200 yards. The cars ahead remained abotu 200 yarsd ahead - if I sped up the distance remained constant, and if I slowed down so did they. The result was a sort of force bubble exclusion zone aorund me, as if my van repelled any other vehicle. I have never experienced this before. I had a 200 yard exclusion zone around myself. I resisted the urge to see if I could deliberately ram into anything, but, you know, I'm not sure I could have done. Strange physics were surely at work. Even as I approached roundabouts, they became mysteriously free of other traffic.

This phenomenom needs more research. I want it ever day.