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Re: A glitch in the Matrix or Mandela effect???
By: vintagegal Date: May 18, 2021, 12:17 pm
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I have a couple.
DH and I used to snowbird in the US South. One year we stopped
in Panama City, FL and got a hotel room. The next day we had to
decide if we were going to stay there or find someplace else. We
drove west to Ft. Walton Beach, FL, found a place, and drove
back to tell the hotel we were going to check out. We both
distinctly remembered that we just barely made it because there
was a time zone change between the two cities. (Eastern vs.
Central). Years later we found out, that was not true, the time
zone line was miles east of Panama City.
I may have posted about this one before. I do hand quilting and
use an oval hoop that I hold in my lap. I was at the local swap
shop and picked up a smaller hoop that I thought would be
perfect for smaller projects. Came home, put it in the sewing
room. A month or so later, needed it for a project - could not
find it anywhere. And this was a small, 750 s.f. house. I
finally gave up and wondered if I had really brought it home.
Some time after that I was climbing into the attic where we
stored fabric. I had a way of climbing a built in bookshelf,
hoisting myself into the attic through a hatch, and sitting on
the attic floor. Yep - I was sitting on the hoop. I was the only
one who ever put anything in the attic, and I know I didn't put
it there.
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Re: A glitch in the Matrix or Mandela effect???
By: iolaus Date: May 18, 2021, 12:50 pm
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Years ago, before my grandmother died, my mother lost a ring her
mother had given her (nothing heirloom) so my father brought her
a replacement rather than her confess she had lost it. 7 YEARS
later she was pegging out a duvet cover and felt something
caught in it. It was the ring, which had gone through the wash
umpteen times, been on their bed and never noticed it
My mother and I now have matching rings
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Re: A glitch in the Matrix or Mandela effect???
By: nuku Date: May 18, 2021, 3:13 pm
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[quote author=Dazi link=topic=2059.msg66608#msg66608
date=1621345458]
[quote author=Aleko link=topic=2059.msg66598#msg66598
date=1621327699]
Peony, that’s not a glitch in the universe: that was just one of
Speiderlegg’s cousins.
I’ll explain. My family is afflicted - has been for three
generations - by a bad fairy who hitched a lift back with them
from a mountaineering holiday in Switzerland. Speiderlegg’s MO
is quite simply to take our property - a hairbrush, a driving
licence, a sweater - away from the place where we KNOW we put
it. Sometimes he deposits the stolen item somewhere else in the
house, in a place we know we didn’t put it and would never have
dreamt of putting it. Sometimes he lets us ransack the house for
days in ever-increasing frustration and panic, then calmly puts
it back in its proper place, precisely where we first looked for
it. And sometimes we never see the item ever again.
Clearly, Speiderlegg has a relation working in Peony’s office.
Not sure about Dazi’s experience: if the American branch of his
family have ramped up their operations to the extent of stealing
whole petrol stations, that’s a whole new level of fairy
intervention you have over there!
[/quote]
Ah, yes! I have a colander that randomly disappears for months
at a time! Also lost a bottle of meds last week and flat out
demanded it be returned immediately. Plunk... Heard it land in
the living room on the side table. WTH??? And my personal
favorite, the bracelet. My husband gave me this beautiful
bracelet for our anniversary one year...it disappeared a few
years later. Turned the house upside down looking for it. More
than a year later, I went to get in my car after work and it
literally dropped out of the sky and hit me on the head.
Seriously!!!
I've asked several more people about the gas station. They all
said there's been one there for like a good 20 years! Only it
definitely isn't there anymore and no sign there was EVER a gas
station there. 🤦🤷
[/quote]
I'm not that surprised about the gas station. I've seen bigger
buildings razed to the ground with no evidence left behind in a
matter of days. It's disconcerting when a building disappears
like that!
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Re: A glitch in the Matrix or Mandela effect???
By: Hanna Date: May 18, 2021, 5:05 pm
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These stories are wild.
How about the word dilemma?
I swear I was taught to spell it dilemna! Others do also but
that’s apparently not a spelling of it.
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Re: A glitch in the Matrix or Mandela effect???
By: Titanica Date: May 18, 2021, 5:14 pm
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Don't know if this counts, but here goes.
A few years back, two of my kids were involved in a competitive
sport/activity. They were each on a team (one was on the junior
team, one was on the senior team). There was a boy on the team
who I will call "Jimmy." Jimmy was an absolute doll, and my
kids got along famously with him. In fact, we all loved him.
We never got to meet his parents, but we did know his
grandmother, Laura - who was just as much an angel as he was,
and was very involved in raising him - she was the one who drove
him pretty much anywhere he needed to go.
The national competition was approaching, and the club we were
involved in decided to rent a motor coach to travel to it - it
was a full day's ride each way, and we spent about 4 or 5 days
at the location. So we decided our whole family would go - me,
DH, and all 4 kids.
Laura began telling me that she didn't want to go, but she felt
like she had to. It wasn't that she didn't want to see her
grandson compete with his team, but she said she wasn't a good
traveler - she had anxiety about spending that much time on a
bus, I think, plus being away from home for several days - she
didn't want to go. I told her no problem, he was welcome to
come with us (as long as he felt comfortable), because since
there were 6 of us, we had to get 2 hotel rooms anyway, so it
wouldn't cost any more, all they had to pay for was his bus
fare. She agreed and was very relieved.
A few days before we were scheduled to leave, at the team's last
practice before the competition, she told me that she was going
to tell Jimmy's father that he would have to pay for one hotel
room. I told her absolutely NOT, there was no need, because we
had to get 2 rooms anyway and he was pretty much staying for
free. She insisted; I insisted; so on, so on . . . she won.
The night before departure, Laura drove Jimmy to our house - I
was at work at the time, so I didn't get to see her, but she
dropped him off and handed my husband a sealed envelope, saying
that it was for the room. Later that night, my husband called
me and asked how much was supposed to be in the envelope. I
told him $400. He said there was only $300. Now, this in
itself wasn't a problem, because I didn't want to take their
money anyway, but . . . what do we do? If we told her, she
would be absolutely mortified. And but it would feel like
"tattling". But it also felt wrong NOT to let her know
somehow.
I got home from work that night, and looked in the envelope
myself. Yep, $300. At that point, there was nothing to do
anyway, so I just decided to put it out of my mind until we
returned, almost a week later. I brought the envelope along,
and kept it in the hotel room safe the whole time.
When it came time go check out of the hotel, I took the envelope
out of the safe and put it in my purse, planning I'd settle part
of the bill with the $300 they had given us. I took out the
money, and there was $400 there. No idea where the extra $100
came from, or how it got there.
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Re: A glitch in the Matrix or Mandela effect???
By: peony Date: May 18, 2021, 9:43 pm
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[quote author=Dazi link=topic=2059.msg66608#msg66608
date=1621345458]
[quote author=Aleko link=topic=2059.msg66598#msg66598
date=1621327699]
Peony, that’s not a glitch in the universe: that was just one of
Speiderlegg’s cousins.
I’ll explain. My family is afflicted - has been for three
generations - by a bad fairy who hitched a lift back with them
from a mountaineering holiday in Switzerland. Speiderlegg’s MO
is quite simply to take our property - a hairbrush, a driving
licence, a sweater - away from the place where we KNOW we put
it. Sometimes he deposits the stolen item somewhere else in the
house, in a place we know we didn’t put it and would never have
dreamt of putting it. Sometimes he lets us ransack the house for
days in ever-increasing frustration and panic, then calmly puts
it back in its proper place, precisely where we first looked for
it. And sometimes we never see the item ever again.
Clearly, Speiderlegg has a relation working in Peony’s office.
Not sure about Dazi’s experience: if the American branch of his
family have ramped up their operations to the extent of stealing
whole petrol stations, that’s a whole new level of fairy
intervention you have over there!
[/quote]
Ah, yes! I have a colander that randomly disappears for months
at a time! Also lost a bottle of meds last week and flat out
demanded it be returned immediately. Plunk... Heard it land in
the living room on the side table. WTH??? And my personal
favorite, the bracelet. My husband gave me this beautiful
bracelet for our anniversary one year...it disappeared a few
years later. Turned the house upside down looking for it. More
than a year later, I went to get in my car after work and it
literally dropped out of the sky and hit me on the head.
Seriously!!!
I've asked several more people about the gas station. They all
said there's been one there for like a good 20 years! Only it
definitely isn't there anymore and no sign there was EVER a gas
station there. 🤦🤷
[/quote]
:o
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Re: A glitch in the Matrix or Mandela effect???
By: Aleko Date: May 19, 2021, 2:27 am
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[quote]How about the word dilemma?
I swear I was taught to spell it dilemna! Others do also but
that’s apparently not a spelling of it.[/quote]
It certainly ought not to be, because it comes from two Greek
words: di- meaning double, and lemma, meaning a proposition in
logic. (A di-lemma was originally a rhetorical device in which
you presented your opponent in debate with two alternative
propositions, neither of which was favourable to his argument,
and demanded he choose between them.) My first thought was that
you must just have had an ignorant teacher*: but if you
encounter other people spelling it that way my guess is that it
just got misprinted in a textbook somewhere, some time.
* Ah, ignorant teachers! At my primary school our class teacher
taught us to sing the second line of Away in a Manger thus:
[quote]The little Lord Jesus laid on his sweet head[/quote]
When I asked ‘Why was baby Jesus lying on his head?’, she
replied ‘Haha, no of course he wasn’t lying on his head! ‘Head’
is an olden-times word for ‘hay’. The manger was full of lovely
sweet-smelling hay, don’t you see?’ I was only 6 or 7, but that
wasn’t the only time I suspected the teachers at that school of
simply making things up rather than admit they didn’t know.
(Even though I don’t think I would have realised at that age
that ‘Jesus laid on his head’ was bad grammar as well as
nonsensical.)
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Re: A glitch in the Matrix or Mandela effect???
By: oogyda Date: May 19, 2021, 5:57 am
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[quote author=Aleko link=topic=2059.msg66646#msg66646
date=1621409230]
[quote]The little Lord Jesus laid on his sweet head[/quote]
When I asked ‘Why was baby Jesus lying on his head?’, she
replied ‘Haha, no of course he wasn’t lying on his head! ‘Head’
is an olden-times word for ‘hay’. The manger was full of lovely
sweet-smelling hay, don’t you see?’ I was only 6 or 7, but that
wasn’t the only time I suspected the teachers at that school of
simply making things up rather than admit they didn’t know.
(Even though I don’t think I would have realised at that age
that ‘Jesus laid on his head’ was bad grammar as well as
nonsensical.)
[/quote]
I've always know it as:
The little Lord Jesus
Laid down his sweet head
it had nothing to do with hay.
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Re: A glitch in the Matrix or Mandela effect???
By: Lilipons Date: May 19, 2021, 9:20 am
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This is a tiny one but it’s still a puzzle.
Some years go we were going to visit relatives in the Midwest
for Thanksgiving. To keep them safe, I put the lanyard with my
work ID and keys on the windowsill near our TV. Our windowsills
are almost a foot deep and the lanyard was pushed way back.
There was no way it could have fallen back behind something.
This happened in 1992 and the lanyard has yet to be seen.
The ladle for our gravy boat has also been known to take
periodic vacations.
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Re: A glitch in the Matrix or Mandela effect???
By: nuku Date: May 19, 2021, 10:23 am
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[quote author=Titanica link=topic=2059.msg66638#msg66638
date=1621376095]
Don't know if this counts, but here goes.
A few years back, two of my kids were involved in a competitive
sport/activity. They were each on a team (one was on the junior
team, one was on the senior team). There was a boy on the team
who I will call "Jimmy." Jimmy was an absolute doll, and my
kids got along famously with him. In fact, we all loved him.
We never got to meet his parents, but we did know his
grandmother, Laura - who was just as much an angel as he was,
and was very involved in raising him - she was the one who drove
him pretty much anywhere he needed to go.
The national competition was approaching, and the club we were
involved in decided to rent a motor coach to travel to it - it
was a full day's ride each way, and we spent about 4 or 5 days
at the location. So we decided our whole family would go - me,
DH, and all 4 kids.
Laura began telling me that she didn't want to go, but she felt
like she had to. It wasn't that she didn't want to see her
grandson compete with his team, but she said she wasn't a good
traveler - she had anxiety about spending that much time on a
bus, I think, plus being away from home for several days - she
didn't want to go. I told her no problem, he was welcome to
come with us (as long as he felt comfortable), because since
there were 6 of us, we had to get 2 hotel rooms anyway, so it
wouldn't cost any more, all they had to pay for was his bus
fare. She agreed and was very relieved.
A few days before we were scheduled to leave, at the team's last
practice before the competition, she told me that she was going
to tell Jimmy's father that he would have to pay for one hotel
room. I told her absolutely NOT, there was no need, because we
had to get 2 rooms anyway and he was pretty much staying for
free. She insisted; I insisted; so on, so on . . . she won.
The night before departure, Laura drove Jimmy to our house - I
was at work at the time, so I didn't get to see her, but she
dropped him off and handed my husband a sealed envelope, saying
that it was for the room. Later that night, my husband called
me and asked how much was supposed to be in the envelope. I
told him $400. He said there was only $300. Now, this in
itself wasn't a problem, because I didn't want to take their
money anyway, but . . . what do we do? If we told her, she
would be absolutely mortified. And but it would feel like
"tattling". But it also felt wrong NOT to let her know
somehow.
I got home from work that night, and looked in the envelope
myself. Yep, $300. At that point, there was nothing to do
anyway, so I just decided to put it out of my mind until we
returned, almost a week later. I brought the envelope along,
and kept it in the hotel room safe the whole time.
When it came time go check out of the hotel, I took the envelope
out of the safe and put it in my purse, planning I'd settle part
of the bill with the $300 they had given us. I took out the
money, and there was $400 there. No idea where the extra $100
came from, or how it got there.
[/quote]
Were they new bills? I've miscounted new money more than once.
When I was a cashier, I hated it when someone came in with a
stack of bills fresh from the bank.
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