# Post your mundane explicable stories here, and I will bunk them **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 21, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060 "2010-06-21T23:12:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/81 "2010-06-23T12:46:43Z")
> [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](#): > > Sometimse things seem to change so that they have always been that way. For example: a woman I’ve known for over a decade is a vegetarian and has been since childhood, but I’d swear I remember seeing her eat a hamburger. But she hasn’t eaten meat for longer than I’ve known her. What could this be? You’re slipping in and out of parallel realities, a problem that many people place but nobody takes seriously. It’s an amazing power if you can learn to control it and a huge pain in the ass if you can’t. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/82 "2010-06-23T12:52:26Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > Ferris is dead? > > I’m trying to think of a mundane but funny thing to type and nothing is coming to me. Why is that? You’re a vampire and don’t have mundane experiences. Also, you aren’t funny. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/83 "2010-06-23T12:54:16Z")
> [@SevenOfTeemingMillions](#): > > I once went to MacDonalds thinking it would be great to scarf on some fries. But when I ordered I forgot the fries. The guy behind the counter then asked me “Would you like some fries with that?”. That was the last time I went to MacDonalds. I don’t care if it lets them provide better service but I don’t want anyone reading my mind! It’s going to get worse before it gets better. Not only will stores and restaurants know what we want, they will use various nefarious means to actually _make up our minds_ and _convince us we want_ things that we don’t even need. It’s a scary future. ---
**Author:** ![drillrod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@drillrod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drillrod)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/84 "2010-06-23T14:10:42Z")
I seem to be suffering from “missing time”. Almost every day, sometime between 10:00 and 11:30 p.m., I slip into a coma which lasts anywhere from six to eight hours. I have no sure memories of anything that occurs during that time, although sometimes I have vague hallucinations of flying or being chased. Help! ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/85 "2010-06-23T14:14:18Z")
I can’t answer that for fear of angering the Great Old Ones. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/86 "2010-06-23T14:48:31Z")
> [@cricetus](#): > > The question is, then: why is your husband lying to you about his friendship with John Sebastian? You might want to look into it. I asked him and he denied knowing John Sebastian. He also denied knowing Sebastian Cabot and John Cabot. He did, however, correctly identify Henry Cabot Lodge, who never had a Top 40 hit. > [@Superhal](#): > > Q: I’ve been practicing for weeks now to poop in the shape of a “Q.” However, some strange force is causing my bunghole to pinch them off after only a few inches, so the best I get is an “H” or “iiii.” I suspect it’s Log Cabin Republicans. I’m not seeing a question there. Can we get a ruling? ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/87 "2010-06-23T14:58:44Z")
Probably the oddest coincidence I have experienced. I was working in my home office in Queens and was running late for a meeting in Manhattan. I decided to take a taxi, I live on a well traveled street with lots of cab traffic. I walked out the door and raised my hand to hail a cab. I see a van slow down and hear my name called. It’s one of the other parties attending the meeting, heading into Manhattan. They gave me a ride. I know this was just a total coincidence but the timing was really impeccable. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/88 "2010-06-23T15:39:38Z")
When I tune into a series of which I have only ever seen one episode, why is that episode always the one playing? ---
**Author:** ![Alma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alma)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/89 "2010-06-23T15:42:33Z")
> [@cricetus](#): > > Twins usually have some kind of psychic link. You two evidently don’t, which should make you wonder: which one is adopted? My parents didn’t know they were having twins until a few weeks before we were born. Could I be a changeling? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/90 "2010-06-23T15:51:19Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > \ > > I’m not seeing a question there. Can we get a ruling? **Superhal’s** probably a sports journalist. ---
**Author:** ![hougaswd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@hougaswd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hougaswd)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/91 "2010-06-23T17:34:27Z")
My place of employment has a lot of people in a small group of rooms. If I nearly run into someone early in the day, the odds are very high I will have a near collision with the _same_ person later on the same day! Walt ---
**Author:** ![Lare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/92 "2010-06-23T18:04:33Z")
While driving to work, if I happen to get a red light I find I can stare at it for a few seconds and make it turn back to green. The amount of time I have to stare it it seems to vary. So far, I have been able to turn the cross-traffic one to red at about the same time so I haven’t had an accident while messing with the Omniverse in this manner. ---
**Author:** ![ToborAton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/57b2e6/32.png) [@ToborAton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToborAton)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/93 "2010-06-23T19:02:59Z")
So I start was reading this thread where a guy bunks stuff and I was laughing at the bunk!? ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/94 "2010-06-23T19:09:57Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Probably the oddest coincidence I have experienced. > > I was working in my home office in Queens and was running late for a meeting in Manhattan. I decided to take a taxi, I live on a well traveled street with lots of cab traffic. > > I walked out the door and raised my hand to hail a cab. I see a van slow down and hear my name called. It’s one of the other parties attending the meeting, heading into Manhattan. They gave me a ride. > > I know this was just a total coincidence but the timing was really impeccable. Well, how many people were heading to Manhattan from Queens that morning, really? The odds were pretty good if two of you were making the same trip, it was for the same reason, although I would not rule out the possibility that your “colleague” was stalking or shadowing you the whole time. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/95 "2010-06-23T19:10:59Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > When I tune into a series of which I have only ever seen one episode, why is that episode always the one playing? Because the matrix programmers are too lazy to produce multiple episodes of a show you don’t even watch. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/96 "2010-06-23T19:12:15Z")
> [@Alma](#): > > My parents didn’t know they were having twins until a few weeks before we were born. Could I be a changeling? One of you is… have you received mysterious messages on the license of plates of cars, sprayed onto the backs of signs, or scribbled on envelopes you find blowing around in the parking lot? That’s how faeries communicate with their lost changelings. Of course they might also be confused about which one of you is which. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/97 "2010-06-23T19:14:44Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > I’m not seeing a question there. Can we get a ruling? To be fair, I didn’t actually ask for posts to be put in the form of a question, but this isn’t the first time that Alex Trebek has privately controlled people’s thoughts through the Internet as part of a vast Canadian conspiracy to take over America. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/98 "2010-06-23T19:16:28Z")
> [@hougaswd](#): > > My place of employment has a lot of people in a small group of rooms. If I nearly run into someone early in the day, the odds are very high I will have a near collision with the _same_ person later on the same day! > > Walt Office wampfetas. You can’t really do anything about them. I myself will go to a different floor just to avoid urinating with the same colleague for the third time that day. I don’t want them to think I’m weird. Of course if I run into them up there then they _really_ do. Very embarrassing. (Or they’re the weird one and I have to be more careful…) ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/99 "2010-06-23T19:21:54Z")
> [@Lare](#): > > While driving to work, if I happen to get a red light I find I can stare at it for a few seconds and make it turn back to green. The amount of time I have to stare it it seems to vary. So far, I have been able to turn the cross-traffic one to red at about the same time so I haven’t had an accident while messing with the Omniverse in this manner. Have you wondered why the lights are being so coquettish? Changing here, waiting there? Sounds like maybe they want you to do something more for them, like make a donation to the Retired Traffic Lights Sanctuary. I’ll DM you with a P.O. where you can send a money order. ---
**Author:** ![Lare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/100 "2010-06-23T19:32:03Z")
> [@cricetus](#): > > …I’ll DM you with a P.O. where you can send a money order. If you would just send me your banking information I will deposit the money directly. After all, a service such as you are providing should not go unrewarded. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060.md?page=6)