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Re: A glitch in the Matrix or Mandela effect???
By: Titanica Date: May 19, 2021, 11:11 am
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[quote author=nuku link=topic=2059.msg66656#msg66656
date=1621437805]
[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.
[/quote]
No, actually - that would make sense. But it wasn't $100 bills
- it was all in $20s.
#Post#: 66659--------------------------------------------------
Re: A glitch in the Matrix or Mandela effect???
By: Aleko Date: May 19, 2021, 12:43 pm
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[quote]I've always know it as:
The little Lord Jesus
Laid down his sweet head
it had nothing to do with hay.[/quote]
Of course it hasn't; that's the whole point of the story. This
teacher had heard and learnt the carol wrong (being presumably
too ignorant of grammar to realise that "Jesus laid on his sweet
head" is a solecism). Either she had asked herself 'what the
heck could that mean?' and had confabulated an imaginary meaning
for the word 'head' to make sense of it to her own satisfaction,
or she had been too inattentive to notice the absurdity till it
was queried by a pupil, when she quickly invented something
rather than admit 'I don't know'.
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Re: A glitch in the Matrix or Mandela effect???
By: NFPwife Date: May 19, 2021, 12:51 pm
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These are so interesting. I just had one this morning.
As I was reading the thread the past few days I've thought about
a mousse I can't find. I received it as part of a campaign,
loved it (it's the best campaign item I've ever received or
reviewed) and I used it twice and it disappeared. I looked
everywhere.
This morning my husband motioned me to come to our LR windows
because the neighbors' cat was engaged in a staring contest with
him. (It was really funny.) As I was stepping back from the
window, I looked down and the mousse was behind the recliner. We
never sit in that chair, we keep it for DH's dad when he's here.
I never had the mousse in the living room. So strange, but, boy
am I glad it's come back to me.
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Re: A glitch in the Matrix or Mandela effect???
By: Rose Red Date: May 19, 2021, 1:14 pm
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[quote author=PVZFan link=topic=2059.msg66661#msg66661
date=1621446688]
These are so interesting. I just had one this morning.
As I was reading the thread the past few days I've thought about
a mousse I can't find. I received it as part of a campaign,
loved it (it's the best campaign item I've ever received or
reviewed) and I used it twice and it disappeared. I looked
everywhere.
This morning my husband motioned me to come to our LR windows
because the neighbors' cat was engaged in a staring contest with
him. (It was really funny.) As I was stepping back from the
window, I looked down and the mousse was behind the recliner. We
never sit in that chair, we keep it for DH's dad when he's here.
I never had the mousse in the living room. So strange, but, boy
am I glad it's come back to me.
[/quote]
Do you mean hair mousse? At first I thought you meant the
dessert but it didn't make sense in the context of the story
😆
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Re: A glitch in the Matrix or Mandela effect???
By: NFPwife Date: May 19, 2021, 1:27 pm
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[quote author=Rose Red link=topic=2059.msg66662#msg66662
date=1621448067]
[quote author=PVZFan link=topic=2059.msg66661#msg66661
date=1621446688]
These are so interesting. I just had one this morning.
As I was reading the thread the past few days I've thought about
a mousse I can't find. I received it as part of a campaign,
loved it (it's the best campaign item I've ever received or
reviewed) and I used it twice and it disappeared. I looked
everywhere.
This morning my husband motioned me to come to our LR windows
because the neighbors' cat was engaged in a staring contest with
him. (It was really funny.) As I was stepping back from the
window, I looked down and the mousse was behind the recliner. We
never sit in that chair, we keep it for DH's dad when he's here.
I never had the mousse in the living room. So strange, but, boy
am I glad it's come back to me.
[/quote]
Do you mean hair mousse? At first I thought you meant the
dessert but it didn't make sense in the context of the story
😆
[/quote]
:D Yes, hair mousse. It's Matrix Biolage volumizing mousse. It
made my hair so full and the volume lasted until the next day. I
can't wait to wash my hair and use it again.
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Re: A glitch in the Matrix or Mandela effect???
By: GardenGal Date: May 19, 2021, 4:00 pm
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In my husband's family, whenever anything went missing when he
was a child his parents said it had been taken by "higgeldy
piggeldy gremlins." Apparently, they took a lot of stuff.
I've lost plenty of stuff in my day that turned out to be easily
spotted by someone else, and I think in my case there is sort of
a selective blindness - as in I don't see what I'm looking for
because I don't expect it to be there. I've also had occasion
to put something down in a very stupid place and then couldn't
find it later in the place I had meant to put it. For me, it's
quite easy to forget when I've done something a million times
before exactly how it should be done and to zone out a little,
which is how the can opener ends up in the freezer instead of
the utensil drawer.
#Post#: 66674--------------------------------------------------
Re: A glitch in the Matrix or Mandela effect???
By: ZekailleTasker Date: May 19, 2021, 7:04 pm
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In my home, at this very moment, there are (count em) five grey
plastic laser mice. Tasker Cat loves to chase the red light,
but she loves to push them off tables more. I cannot keep one
more than a week before she finds the new hiding place
and--knocks the mouse off the shelf, table, ledge or mantle.I
watch them fall and...apparently they are all falling thru a
temporarily opened place between dimensions (think that Twilight
Zone episode Little Girl Lost) because when I go to retrieve
them, they are gone, baby, gone!
#Post#: 66684--------------------------------------------------
Re: A glitch in the Matrix or Mandela effect???
By: Aleko Date: May 20, 2021, 2:25 am
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ZT, perhaps you should just go back to using a plug-in mouse?
Sure, cordless are far more convenient: but at least if Tasker
Cat pushed a plug-in off the table, you’d find it dangling sadly
by its tail.
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Re: A glitch in the Matrix or Mandela effect???
By: bridalviolet Date: May 20, 2021, 8:06 am
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[quote author=GardenGal link=topic=2059.msg66671#msg66671
date=1621458009]
In my husband's family, whenever anything went missing when he
was a child his parents said it had been taken by "higgeldy
piggeldy gremlins." Apparently, they took a lot of stuff.
I've lost plenty of stuff in my day that turned out to be easily
spotted by someone else, and I think in my case there is sort of
a selective blindness - as in I don't see what I'm looking for
because I don't expect it to be there. I've also had occasion
to put something down in a very stupid place and then couldn't
find it later in the place I had meant to put it. For me, it's
quite easy to forget when I've done something a million times
before exactly how it should be done and to zone out a little,
which is how the can opener ends up in the freezer instead of
the utensil drawer.
[/quote]
We always said it must be the Borrowers. My favorite book as a
child!
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Re: A glitch in the Matrix or Mandela effect???
By: nuku Date: May 20, 2021, 10:36 am
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[quote author=bridalviolet link=topic=2059.msg66687#msg66687
date=1621515960]
[quote author=GardenGal link=topic=2059.msg66671#msg66671
date=1621458009]
In my husband's family, whenever anything went missing when he
was a child his parents said it had been taken by "higgeldy
piggeldy gremlins." Apparently, they took a lot of stuff.
I've lost plenty of stuff in my day that turned out to be easily
spotted by someone else, and I think in my case there is sort of
a selective blindness - as in I don't see what I'm looking for
because I don't expect it to be there. I've also had occasion
to put something down in a very stupid place and then couldn't
find it later in the place I had meant to put it. For me, it's
quite easy to forget when I've done something a million times
before exactly how it should be done and to zone out a little,
which is how the can opener ends up in the freezer instead of
the utensil drawer.
[/quote]
We always said it must be the Borrowers. My favorite book as a
child!
[/quote]
Mine, too! I always wished there were one more book in the
series!
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