Yeah, I met that same guy. It’s either “now then” or “well then”.
OK, I gotta admit, I don’t get this. Whether it was for vision, or walking, I can think of lots of reasons she might use it one day, then not use it another day. What is whooshing past me here?
There’s a woman at work I’ve been friends with for a number of years. We’re both fitness enthusiasts, and we are always sharing tips & ideas on how to improve our running and lifting regimens. We talk/email about once a week.
We live near Dayton, OH. In January of 2015 our 16 year old daughter and I drove up to Cleveland to visit the R&R HoF. We drove up on Friday, got a hotel, and went to the museum on Saturday.
We decided to go to a restaurant after arriving at the hotel on Friday evening. We walked to the Hard Rock Café, ate, and then walked to the House of Blues to watch whatever band was playing in the (free) restaurant area. It was January, and quite cold, and there were very few people at the bars on E 4th St.
At around 10 PM we left the House of Blues to go back to the hotel. As soon as we left the place and walked out onto E 4th St, I saw a woman walk in front of me. I stared at her and thought, “Don’t I know her?” She looked back and stared at me. I couldn’t believe it… it was my coworker mentioned in the first paragraph. She was with her husband and two children on a short vacation in Cleveland, and I had absolutely no idea she would be there. It was just so surreal and spooky; neither of us could believe it.
Ted Drewe! That’s awesome! They factored prominently in getting me through my first pregnancy when we lived in St Louis.
So I’m taking a seminar on how to get a job. One of the other woman introduces herself as Becca, but I keep thinking her name is “Nancy.” I go over to her after class and say “Why do I think the named ‘Nancy’ when I look at you?” She says “That’s my mother’s name.”
And I say “You’re Baby Becky.”
I knew her family 30 years ago in Minnesota, and use to babysit her.
Somebody I know broke their leg while out walking and crawled to the road and they waved at a car that was passing to get help and they waved back! No help there! However eventually an ambulance came. But he went to hospital in fact.
Many moons ago, I was a deputy sheriff. I was on nightwatch, and about 0200 or so, I needed to pee. I was out in the boonies, no one around, so I pulled over to the side of the road.
As I was watering the bar ditch, I happened to notice a fairly bright red light, not blinking, up in the sky. It was moving at (I’m estimating) about a 30 degree angle from my line of sight, coming toward me. It got nearly overhead when I figured out that it wasn’t an airplane and started thinking WTF, and then turned back on an approximate 300 degree angle to my line of sight and hauled ass out of sight. It had taken about 10 seconds from the time I noticed it until it got overhead; it took about 3 seconds to vanish over the horizon line.
UFO? Who knows - I sure don’t.
In the 70s, when the Pittsburgh Steelers were a dominating force in football, I had a favorite player. Even after the era passed, I’d compare other players to him. He was on my list of “people I’d love to meet one day”.
Then, pure coincidence, circa 2001, I run into him in a situation where he needed help with something and I was uniquely equipped to provide that help. It turned out we had some things very much in common and became friends. I still can’t believe it.
I grew up and graduated high school in Michigan. After I graduated my mother got a job as assistant superintendent in a school district in the state of Wyoming. To save money I followed and went to community college out there while living at home.
The college had a cool English instructor who not only taught basic classes but also taught Sci Fi Lit and Horror Lit and other interesting genres. I took all of his classes I could.
Oddly enough my sister also became good friends with his daughter. While they were talking one day conversation turned to their extended families. Turns out they were from Michigan originally as well. And from the same small town where my mother grew up. And, it turns out, this friend my sister had made was actually her cousin and the instructor had been married to my mother’s sister. So, not a blood relative, but an in-law.
That was pretty weird.
When I lived in Jordan, my wife was a nurse at the hospital there. One of the other ex-pat nurses, an American woman, had a last name that was somewhat unusual. I mentioned to her that I had a geography instructor in college by that name 20 years ago. He had a car, so we used to go to concerts together. She said “That’s my ex-husband.”
I had a dream in which a guy I was friends with in high school appeared. We had long since lost touch and I hadn’t thought about him in years. When I woke up, I was marveling about how people you never think about can show up in dreams. As I was laying there I started trying to remember the names of his siblings and devoted some time to this. I get up, get the morning paper and there was an obituary for his father and it listed all his kids.
true well then? Nope
A few years back, I was the emcee at a speech contest in Tokyo for Japanese children who are studying English. One of the winners was a junior high school boy from Niigata Prefecture. During the awards ceremony, I interviewed him onstage and his English was very impressive.
A month passes, JpnGal and I are on vacation in Hawaii. We visit the Pearl Harbor Memorial and before boarding the ferry to the USS Arizona, I make a quick visit to the men’s room. As I come out, guess who is walking with a schoolmate towards the men’s room? The same boy who won the speech contest…freaky!
I started playing a game on Facebook and had to friend other people playing the game in order to pass gifts back and forth between the two of us, so we would see what each other were posting about other topics besides just the game. One of the women I was friended with just because we played the same game posted something to a woman whose last name is Kitchen, the same as mine. The item she posted to her was a page from a high school yearbook with the picture of my first cousin on it. I asked her why she had posted that, and she said that she and the other woman she had sent the picture to were my cousin’s daughters.
People I never knew existed. My cousin has been dead for a long time.
When I was living in Virginia, I took a vacation in Florida and ran into a family I knew in Virginia.
Ha, reminds me of a family trip to Nashville we took when I was in high school. We were at some theme park - Six Flags? Dollywood? - and my parents had gone off on their own while my brother and I got in line for their new river ride thingy. As we’re standing there, I turn around and see two of my friends from St. Louis that I knew from swimming - we’d just seen each other at a meet the weekend before.
We, of course, immediately hooked up to catch some rides, but I think our parents were trying to figure out how to separate the families without being too rude.
All of the Digginses in the world are from one tiny village in the Alps. And there aren’t many that moved across the mountain, let alone an ocean.
So we were surprised when we moved in next door to an older woman whose grandmother was from the same little hamlet. She had a relative send a photo of the grave marker of our common ancestor with both our family names on it.
Yesterday on my lunch break I was walking around a nearby lake.No one around and nothing but the sound of wildlife. And bagpipes. I couldn’t see or even tell by the sound where it was coming from. Just the woeful, lonely sound echoing over the lake. When I got to the far side I discovered the piper was what looked like a teenager, standing alone on the pool deck of a hotel playing his heart out.
Freaky…I had someone tell me that same exact story yesterday.
When I was visiting Italy, I was outside the Baptistery doors in Florence, and heard a familiar voice behind me. It was an old friend of mine, whom I hadn’t seen in many years, reading from a guide book to his friend.