Apathy Sketchpad

Last week when coming home from work I walked through the park, and I could see a man standing there with his arm out like he was making a videocall. It was pitch black. I thought that strange but I ignored it. Moments later there was a bright white flash all around him, so clearly he had a camera-phone with a flash. Okay. I got a bit nearer and noticed he was photographing the floor. Again strange but I’d done that too about a month earlier (although in daylight) to create a nice autumnal background image for my phone. When I got nearer, I saw he was photographing a branch. Fair enough, that’s even quite photogenic. But it was all the little white card arrows on the ground pointing at it that surprised me. They’d never been there before; they’ve never been there since. I can only assume they were his (or else he was on a thoroughly bizarre scavenger hunt).

From now on, when I see this kind of thing, I am going to ask the question that is in my head, because I don’t like the feeling that there’s a good explanation that I don’t have. It’s like if you’ve set the video to record Jonathan Creek and it didn’t finish on time.