I was sitting with my friend, Sarah, at the bus stop, opposite Broadmeadow Station. A 92 year old woman was sitting next to Sarah. We were obviously waiting for the bus, and it was rather boring. A helicopter went over our heads.

“Have you seen Tomorrow When the War Began?” I asked Sarah, thinking that I could tell her something funny.

“Yes.” She said.

“Well last night I had a dream about it, and you were in it.” I said, “it started off that we were sitting in our Performance Script Writing class when we heard all these planes flying in the sky. So the whole class rushed outside and the planes were bombing the university. So you, me, Chris, Kel, and I think Lisa (people in our class), jumped into Chris’ car and drove around Newcastle. But all of Newcastle was getting bombed as well, so we went to someone’s house but it was destroyed by a bomb. Then we went to someone else’s house and their family was dead. So we went to my house and found my family had been shot dead, so we buried them in the back yard. Then we staid at my house because it’s like a mansion, it has 6 bedrooms. Another friend of mine, from work, came to the house because his family had died, and he wanted to see if I was alive. Soon we started running out of food, so we went to Coles and raided the shelves.

“While all of you were filling the trolleys with food, I was going down the shampoo isle, getting “necessities”. I was with my friend from work, and I was throwing toiletries and shampoo and toothpaste and contraceptives into my trolley. As I picked up a box of condoms I said “isn’t it ironic that there’s an even number of guys as girls, it’s almost like fate had brought us together.”’

At this point in my story the 92 year old butted in and said, “oh can you get those thingsin Coles?”

Sarah said; “yeah, they’re in the Shampoo isle.”

“Oh I’d better go and have a look,” the old woman said, “I didn’t know you could get themin Coles, they used to only be sold in special shops. They were never talked about in my day.”