Uh, oh.....
Okay, now this is just TOO damn weird. I'm really starting to look over my shoulder now, glancing into all the dark corners...
I was cleaning the house today and it was the master bathroom's turn (as opposed to the....slave bathroom?) I was picking the magazines and sections of newspaper used to pass the time while sitting on the toilet that had accumulated in the past week. One of the sections on the top of the pile was the comics. I figured my son was reading them while doing his business.
This particular section was the comic sectiom from the Sun-Sentinal, dated Saturday January 8, 2005. Strange that they were from the paper from one week ago exactly, and that they were not there the day before. Strange, but only a little.
As I looked them over, seeing if I had already read them, I noticed something that stunned me rigid.
I had in fact read them. Two in particular. 'Red and Rover' and 'Beetle Baily.' The last words in the last panel of 'Red and Rover' were "...a journey of 238,857 miles begins with a single step."
What freaked me out was that nearly right next to it, in the first panel of 'Beetle Baily, ' were the words "...a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
I had read this comic last week. In fact, I pointed it out to my wife while we were having breakfast that morning. She was on the phone talking and just gave me a little smile. I live to amuse her. At the time I thought it was just a neat little coincidence, nothing more, and I forgot all about it.
But didn't I just write about something similar happening to me the other day, only verbally? Let me check; oh, yes, I see that I wrote that THIS HAS BEEN HAPPENING TO ME A LOT LATELY.
I had thought of the comics as I was writing about the other similar events, but I couldn't remember what exactly it was that was repeated, and I figured the paper was long gone anyway, so I didn't mention it. But here it was, now sitting in my bathroom today when it wasn't yesterday.
Should I be a little concerned? That I'm hearing the same word being used only moments apart, in different unrelated places by different unrelated people? Should I be more than a little worried that I'm catching reality having these little hiccups, little loops of time where words are being repeated? That maybe pieces of time itself are being...reused? That perhaps I have seen something about the workings of the universe that maybe I shouldn't have? Do I now have in my hands written proof that... something is going on?
Where is Rod Serling when you need him? (cue the twilight zone music)
I was cleaning the house today and it was the master bathroom's turn (as opposed to the....slave bathroom?) I was picking the magazines and sections of newspaper used to pass the time while sitting on the toilet that had accumulated in the past week. One of the sections on the top of the pile was the comics. I figured my son was reading them while doing his business.
This particular section was the comic sectiom from the Sun-Sentinal, dated Saturday January 8, 2005. Strange that they were from the paper from one week ago exactly, and that they were not there the day before. Strange, but only a little.
As I looked them over, seeing if I had already read them, I noticed something that stunned me rigid.
I had in fact read them. Two in particular. 'Red and Rover' and 'Beetle Baily.' The last words in the last panel of 'Red and Rover' were "...a journey of 238,857 miles begins with a single step."
What freaked me out was that nearly right next to it, in the first panel of 'Beetle Baily, ' were the words "...a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
I had read this comic last week. In fact, I pointed it out to my wife while we were having breakfast that morning. She was on the phone talking and just gave me a little smile. I live to amuse her. At the time I thought it was just a neat little coincidence, nothing more, and I forgot all about it.
But didn't I just write about something similar happening to me the other day, only verbally? Let me check; oh, yes, I see that I wrote that THIS HAS BEEN HAPPENING TO ME A LOT LATELY.
I had thought of the comics as I was writing about the other similar events, but I couldn't remember what exactly it was that was repeated, and I figured the paper was long gone anyway, so I didn't mention it. But here it was, now sitting in my bathroom today when it wasn't yesterday.
Should I be a little concerned? That I'm hearing the same word being used only moments apart, in different unrelated places by different unrelated people? Should I be more than a little worried that I'm catching reality having these little hiccups, little loops of time where words are being repeated? That maybe pieces of time itself are being...reused? That perhaps I have seen something about the workings of the universe that maybe I shouldn't have? Do I now have in my hands written proof that... something is going on?
Where is Rod Serling when you need him? (cue the twilight zone music)
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