I've just arrived home after seeing a good friend take his last breath. I was to honoured to have been there at the end. This was a man who had dodged a snipers bullet in the Falklands, survived many armed patrols in Northern Ireland, a man who had walked away from a high-speed motorbike crash.
At the hospital, just before he went, he beckoned me toward him. He couldn't speak due to the pipes and tubes that were attached to him, so I moved closer as he pointed at his mouth. I said I didn't know what he wanted and asked if he could write. He nodded vigorously, so I passed him some paper from his bedside cabinet and took the pen from my pocket.
Sadly, as he was writing, he stopped, the pen fell to the floor, while the machine he was attached to started to make that ominous monotone bleep that tells you its all over. The paper dropped from his hand as the nurses rushed in and tried in vain to revive him, but it was all to no avail. He now knew all the answers to all the questions ever asked, including the ultimate one.
With a heavy heart I returned to my bike in the car park, trying to avoid looking into the faces of the patients, visitors and hospital workers. I somehow managed to get to the bike without breaking up, and, as I fumbled for my keys I rediscovered the note from my recently deceased friend. By now it was all crumpled up, so I attempted to iron it out on the petrol tank. At the time, it just looked like gibberish, so I returned it to my coat pocket.
After I got home and was about to throw it away, the thought hit me that it might be some sort of final message with hidden significance. It just seems a jumble of random letters to me, so I decided to share it here on PC-Pals to see if anyone is able to decipher it. I never was any good at puzzles, anagrams or conundrums myself, so here it is in its entirety. It says "G E T O F F M Y F U C K I N G O X Y G E N P I P E Y O U F A T B A S T".
Any ideas?
Topic: The Note (Read 559 times)