LOL Houghy, a smart kid! :p
Ok I have a story i dont know if it was super embarressing tho.
Heysen trail/trackl mid north SA, 2001 leonids meteor storm. It was a group session with other 3 friends. One friend who tagged along, a non-astronomer who didnt dress for the cold despite advice to (naturally). he was in and out of car all night due to feeling cold. At one stage I noticed his silouhette in the pitch black, 3 or 4 feet from me, I thought he must of got out of the car again. I started chatting to him on and off about the show "did ya see that AAAARRR WHHHOOOAAAA WOOOHHOOO" ect.- i was distracted by the show a bit
- after I had been talking and standing near him a little while , i was saying Ross? Ross is that you? whats the matter? silence i thought he must of been POed from the cold? then my friend Ross turned and started to gently hop/skip away slowly into the dark? i was confused as to his behaviour - then i yelled ROSS at him as padded away, louder, and the real ross answered me from the car "YER WHAT?" I had been thinking and talking to a large Kangaroo as if he was indeed my friend Ross for maybe as much as 10 min!. LOL I can never figure out how the kangaroo got so close without me noticing?? and why it stayed still so long?
Kearn
EDIT i remember another reason why I confused Ross with the roo in the dark - Ross had borrowed a large blanket out of my car and had wrapped it around himself all night to keep warm, and so resembled that amorphous shape a bit - and correction number two - It cant of been 3- 4 feet that would of been very close, must of been more like 5-6 feet away - sorry! i didnt get time to measure the distance LOL!