One fateful day in the 1980s[6], five or six years after meeting Ford, Arthur awoke to see that his house was to be demolished to make way for a bypass, and lay in front of the bulldozer that was set to destroy it. As Arthur argued with Mr. Prosser, the councilman trying to demolish his house, Ford arrived and convinced Arthur to come with him to the nearby pub, where he revealed his true nature as a Betelgeusian, and that the Earth was to be demolished by the Vogons to make way for a hyperspace bypass. At the last possible second, Ford and Arthur hitched a ride on a Vogon ship by contacting the Dentrassi cooks within, who hated the Vogons and loved to annoy them in any way possible, including bringing hitchhikers onboard.
